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.

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is well suited for very large companies that need to control spam, unwanted attachments, Etc.
I would say it would be less appropriate for smaller companies as the cost may not be a good fit.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.