Mimecast Secure Email Gateway

Mimecast does a good job at protecting all areas of vulnerability in the email systems. From scanning emails themselves to links and attachments to impersonation attacks. Mimecast wraps the email system in a protective blanket and helps protect users and organizations.

Mimecast has been great at filtering our email for spam, phishing attempts, and potentially dangerous email attachments. We have been very happy with the reliability of the Mimecast services - I don't remember it being down in 2 years of using the service. My one complaint is that the admin console is not very easy to navigate, which makes some of the services difficult to implement. That being said, their support team has been great about walking us through these issues.

Great for communicating regarding patient health, attorney client privileged conversations or for any private conversation that you might not want to sit on your in house email server.

I think Mimecast secure email gateway is a great product and it is well suited for all aspects of e-mail management including retention, SPAM prevention, URL protection, and remote e-mail access. It's great for a large organization to use concurrently with Office365 and our users appreciate the easy to use interface in the web portal.

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is great for searching for previous emails. It allows you to get very granular and create a very specific search to easily find the email you are looking for. It also makes it easy to save all emails, without having to go through an archiving process. You can also set Mimecast to save emails for x number of years and therefore remove all emails older than that period.

Mimecast support has been very helpful. Whenever we have questions they quickly answer or let us know they are working on a solution.

The product is best used for medium and larger businesses with more than 100 people. It's not cost-effective for less than 100 users.

It's good for any company that wants to block spam before it gets to your on-premise servers and end-users. Their anti-spam engines are amongst the best in the business. The number of customizations on sending and on-premise delivery available can be mind-boggling at first, but are incredibly powerful to get your messages to the right place.

US-based English-language support - amazing! Don't find this often, but I'm very happy they have it!

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is appropriate for any mid- to large-scale business that wants to limit their exposure to internet-based mail threats. It basically runs itself so requires very little admin time once it is setup and executing properly. The pricing is also a HUGE bargain when compared to what some companies pay for other cloud-based services. Just about any company can afford to set aside this amount to secure their email. Having it lessens the impact of dealing with local users who either do not care about security or are not trained well enough to avoid schemes. The only place where it may not be suited is really small business where the cost may be overkill vs. making sure the users are well versed in avoiding email virus and malware trickery.

When calling them you get best in the world customer services but as previously mentioned their online community and capabilities are a bit lacking. They want you to log into their portal to see updates on issues (vs. using a public facing service) and I rarely find the answers to my issues in electronic format. Their online presence is only helpful with the simplest of issues.

If you host your own mail you really do need a solution such as this. Keeping malicious actors out of your user mailboxes is a high priority with current threat vectors. Mimecast is always highly recommended to this purpose. It may be less needed if you are on GSuite and make use of Google's filtering.

We are able to get a person on the phone quickly and can submit tickets online. The support reps are knowledgeable and are able to access our instance remotely. I do wish that outages and issues were communicated more quickly, however. Occasionally I will find out from a user that they are unable to access their portal.

Specifically for our organization, we use Mimecast as a defense for our users. This can seem redundant because we also utilize Proofpoint to do basically the same thing. In my opinion, Proofpoint does seem to do this better, but the needs may differ from other Organizations. What I think Mimecast does really well is email backup. For DR testing purposes, we have to stand up a copy of every user's inbox ready for access at any time. Mimecast is able to handle this really well, and also allows our users to send and receive in the event of a disaster.

From personal experience, the only time I've had to utilize the support function for Mimecast is in situations where our pre-defined filter was filtering emails incorrectly and users were missing mail. Mimecast support was spotty at times, but it could be due to being in a weird timezone (EST-6). Once I was able to get in contact with a support agent, things were usually pretty smooth. The support agents definitely try their best to help with the problems.

The software is well suited to large corporate organizations with a high volume of emails sent each day within, and out of, the organization. Another good fit is in organizations where communication does not take place in the public domain, but rather contains confidential information. Organizations, where a phishing attack could be of greater significance than in non-defense related industries, are also a big market.

Mimecast is not well suited to smaller businesses in which communication volume is low, and the staff is very technically savvy. These staff can typically ascertain the safety of e-mail content themselves and speed up their working experience.

In my opinion, Mimecast is suitable for any business that wants greater control over the content, URLs, and attachments they receive via email. It also serves a great business continuity function, given the business-critical nature of email communication today. We have been very pleased with the value of our investment in Mimecast's services and would sign up again in a heartbeat if we had it to do all over.

For both Office 365 as well as G Suite Email platforms, Mimecast provides an excellent layer of security and protection from unwanted and malicious emails. I do admit that training is a key part of the implementation process and if not careful, users can block emails so much that they cause problems receiving valid emails in the future. But with proper training this can be avoided.

Mimecast is well suited for any enterprise of over 25 individuals who wish to have first-class spam and malware protection on inbound email. It is reasonably priced and straightforward to implement. It does require some attention, and I would not recommend it to anyone who does not have a technical person who can invest the time to learn the system's administration to provide for its maintenance and ongoing adjustment as threats and desires for varying system performance evolve.

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is well suited for businesses that need email security and protection from phishing/social engineering attacks, so basically it's good for businesses of all sizes. All it takes is one malicious email to get clicked by an end user and your whole network is down, Mimecast security is well worth it.

When we were a smaller company we couldn't justify the cost of something like Mimecast. However, for a medium to large organization, a product like Mimecast is well suited.

For companies with larger IT departments, especially someone Exchange savvy, Mimecast is a great tool that works terrific after you set it up. Administering and managing it is easy once it's up. The initial setup of any rules or functionality is overly complicated and takes great patience and lots of support time to accomplish what you want. The ability to use the Mimecast app or website during our onsite Exchange maintenance periods is terrific and it works great for business continuity.

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is well suited to companies looking for a cloud-based email security solution at a reasonable price. Mimecast offers several different pricing levels and optional packages so you can craft a solution that has the features you need, within your budget. It works well with Office365 and with on-premise e-mail systems. If you are hesitant to route your email through a cloud-based provider, then Mimecast (and other cloud solutions) might not be suitable for your environment.

Mimecast's ability to act as a email filter is amazing. While their archiving service is little beyond useless. The cost to ingest pre-existing email is astronomical compared to the cost of their product. The cost to download email (in bulk) from the archival platform in a format that is easily usable is also nuts. The inability to cancel service in the weeks leading up to your renewal because of a line in their contract is goofy. It's a shame that a company with such a fantastic product uses such shady sales practices.

Very good for SMBs and large organizations to have an email security solution at the perimeter and also if you need a solution that can do things like archiving, legal holds and disaster recovery. These would be very useful in not just day to day operations but also in the event of a major disaster declaration.

I would say Mimecast is well suited to most organisations - the bigger the more important. That said, even small organisations need to protect themselves and Mimecast is a fantastic offering. I can honestly vouch it is the market leader in providing a secure email gateway.

I think that overall, Mimecast is an excellent email gateway. The performance is great, the overall accessibility is very good, and the administration is fairly straightforward. Many companies may be very attached to the notion of on-premise email gateways, but we have been extremely happy with Mimecast's cloud-based email gateway. Overall it has proven very effective and reliable for our organization, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to other companies. It is best-of-breed, in my opinion.

Mid to large size companies its a no-brainer. Small companies may struggle with the costs (but it's worth it).

It works very well for medium to large enterprises who want someone to help filter the deluge of spam, malware, spyware, macros, phishing, and crypto locking junk that is flying all over the internet these days. Having email up in the case of an internal outage is great for peace of mind.

It might be expensive to smaller companies.

Email protection both from spam, viruses, and other malicious entities. They are very active in their community and take requests/ideas very seriously. I cannot think of an area where Mimecast would be less appropriate as all businesses are affected by email and the risks associated with it.

We think that any organization that is looking to have a flexible and not overly complex email gateway should consider Mimecast. It was an fairly simple cut-over and the implementation team was helpful. With that said you may find support a little lacking. You will spend a little more, however, you get what you pay for.