Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Mimecast Advanced Email Security does an outstanding job of protecting our user inboxes. Its spam technology is great, and we truly do feel safer with this by our side. There is, of course, always area for improvement, i.e. their support team could be a little more helpful and their directory syncs more frequently.

Well suited for organisations that plug in additional email software at an O365 level. Spam filtering is not O365 API driven like most modern tech.

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 recall having a single service outage. 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.

On an established email domain where malicious or spam email is a significant percentage it works well - but if you have admin in the background using it as a live tool assessing and fine tuning it in the background. Leaving end users to manage held mail isn't always the best solution.

Works well in terms of end user experience with the Outlook plugin ideally with SSO enabled (so they don't have to remember to keep logged into it if their pw changes). The web plugin is less detailed and feature rich.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.