Mimecast Advanced Email Security Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a valuable security product for any organization. Email is the number one way to get hit. The fastest way for bad actors to obtain information and gain access to your network. Protect yourself and your organization before it gets to end users. Be proactive about it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mimecast's advanced email security remains the number one security tool available for any organization. You will be ahead of the game before anything gets in and users start clicking. Users are often the ones who can disclose sensitive data and compromise the organization and its brand.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast as our primary email gateway for all incoming and outgoing traffic for the organization. The core features that we primarily use is the strong anti spam filtering, DKIM signing of all outgoing traffic, automatic addition of warning banner for external senders on the incoming emails, attachments and URL and QR protections, as well as impersonation protection.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mimecast is a great solution for someone who needs to protect enterprise email communication with with minimum effort. The solution can be deployed in production within a matter of hours. Also it offers great integration for O365, but works well with custom mail infrastructures as well. I cannot think of a scenario where the solution wouldn't be applicable.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We previously used other email solutions but we had problems with false positives or not catching bad emails properly. We had to keep maintaining block lists, allow lists and other manual tasks. We went with Mimecast Advanced Email Security because of its AI-Powered net of who communicates with who looking for abnormal communications. It works extremely well and once Mimecast Advanced Email Security is up and running you do not need to babysit it all the time... it runs in the background doing a fantastic job. We have 500+ employees with native integration into Google. With the Gateway on the front end and the API's into Google for backend scanning and remediation... it covers you from all angles.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mimecast Advanced Email Security has been great and looking at emails that come from new domains, known malicious sites as well as prompting employees randomly to verify a link when clicking on them. This will also do a last minute check of the URL to confirm if it is a known threat. The Google Integration is much better than other solutions we have looked at.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for email scanning and filtering. It blocks a large number of phishing and spam emails and warns our users.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for larger environments, less so for smaller companies.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

After initially depending on O365 filters only we were consistently flooded with Spam and Phishing attacks regardless of how hard our security admin worked to respond. Through the use of Mimecast Advanced Email Security this has fallen to next to zero. Additionally, by tracing failed messages we were able to find misconfigurations in our environment which had been affecting our client service.

Likelihood to Recommend

1 - Organizations that have a large sales force that is not security aware

2 - Finance Departments with Jr Staff that may respond to a Phishing attack

3 - People who are inundated with e-mail from lists they never joined

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[...] are an information management company and we deal with data of all classifications every day, we need to ensure we take the utmost care with data and Mimecast Advanced Email Security helps us to combat Cyber threats and ensure our data and customer data is safe.

Likelihood to Recommend

It has some great benefits both operationally and from a user training perspective. We live in a word where security is paramount and Mimecast Advanced Email Security allows us to ensure that we are taking the right steps. Overall Mimecast Advanced Email Security add to our suite of security products and protocols and allows us to be protected and compliant.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security primarily for the email firewall. As an organisation with 2000+ users, we receive a lot of email spam. Mimecast Advanced Email Security acts as an extra layer of security between bad actors and stakeholders, stopping spam before it gets to them.

Likelihood to Recommend

If a user got an email from a compromised user, we could block that specific email in our Mimecast Advanced Email Security ‘blocked senders’ list.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security for email spam and malware filtering, as well as for email encryption for emails containing sensitive information. As a bank, it is imperative that we protect our customer information and prevent phishing emails from reaching our staff.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mimecast Advanced Email Security is easy for general staff to use to encrypt email, and the experience for external recipients is better than for other email systems. However, in my opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security has not kept pace with other email security platforms in preventing newer types of email phishing attacks, and where it once shone in customer service for us, that metric has fallen short in the last 3 years. In my opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security seems to be trying to turn things around, but currently I cannot recommend them as a complete email security gateway.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security to provide a external messaging hygiene filtering service before email hits O365 and This provides us with far greater visibility and control over our mailflow than relying on Microsoft's inbuilt filtering options. The message tracing, Greylisting, phish reporting options, and end user's personal portals are all excellent in Mimecast Advanced Email Security and are well liked by administrators, support staff and end users

Likelihood to Recommend

As a well respected filtering service Mimecast Advanced Email Security is generally very good, it can take a bit of bedding in. Reporting is basic so if you want in-depth customized reports it isn't ideal, but if you want a very robust filter with some very nice options it is excellent.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security for all email security. We have had to set up a number of different policies to allow email flow into our organization. The process for this is very cumbersome and takes way to long to complete. In our experience, almost every time support needs to be called for help. It is not very user friendly. Should be way easier to set up different policies.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a powerful tool for organizations facing complex and high-volume email threats, but it may not be necessary for smaller businesses or those with simpler security needs. If you have any specific requirements or concerns, Mimecast Advanced Email Security then would be one of the best solutions on the market.