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What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.
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What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
Mimecast offers advanced email and collaboration security through two different deployment methods.
A Secure Email Gateway in the cloud, Mimecast Email Security Cloud Gateway is designed to keep any type of email environment, even the most complex, secure.
Mimecast Email Security Cloud Integrated is an integrated cloud email security solution that does not require an MX record change, and is purpose-built to enhance and extend M365 protections.
Both solutions include AI-powered protection, include a range of specifically designed benefits, and offer a complementary suite of additional capabilities like collaboration security, awareness training, and archiving.
A Secure Email Gateway in the cloud, Mimecast Email Security Cloud Gateway is designed to keep any type of email environment, even the most complex, secure.
Mimecast Email Security Cloud Integrated is an integrated cloud email security solution that does not require an MX record change, and is purpose-built to enhance and extend M365 protections.
Both solutions include AI-powered protection, include a range of specifically designed benefits, and offer a complementary suite of additional capabilities like collaboration security, awareness training, and archiving.
Mimecast Advanced Email Security Features
Secure Email Gateway Features
- Supported: Anti-malware
- Supported: Customizability
- Supported: Data Loss Protection
- Supported: Threat Detection
- Supported: Sandboxing
- Supported: End-to-End Encryption
- Supported: Management Tools
Mimecast Advanced Email Security Integrations
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Mimecast Advanced Email Security Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
Frequently Asked Questions
The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, and Proofpoint Email Protection are common alternatives for Mimecast Advanced Email Security.
Reviewers rate End-to-End Encryption highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Mimecast Advanced Email Security are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 20, 2024
Tackle the rising threat of spam!
Used to address improving our spam detection at a mail gateway level (not API driven)
- Deliver mail
- Reduce spam in inbox
- Clear digest reports
- Easy admin console for security team
- Mail delivery speeds
- Processing time for sandbox
- Better support team
September 13, 2023
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is much more than a spam blocker!
We use Mimecast Secure Email Gateway to control spam, block unwanted viruses, send/receive large files, send/receive secure emails and utilize it for user awareness training.
- Provides secure email transactions.
- Ability to send and receive very large files.
- Blocks a large amount of unwanted spam and dangerous files.
- Allows to train users about bad email actors.
- Web filtering and blocking.
- The new updated portal when released was very difficult to use.
- The customer support via phone is not always on par.
- Email support when used could be a bit quicker when responding.
- CyberGraph implementation is taking too long.
- Feature requests should not take that long to complete.
As our primary protection gateway for all incoming and outgoing email against current and next gen threats. Increased levels of phishing, weaponized links, attachments, nested documents and social engineering attempts make this an essential toolbox for our business.
Added to the feature-set of Large file send and additional optional addon's you really get what you pay for!
Added to the feature-set of Large file send and additional optional addon's you really get what you pay for!
- Anti Spam
- Anti Phishing
- URL Protection
- Attachment Management
- Anti Spoofing
- User Awareness
- Secure Transmission of Large or/and Sensitive Files
- Admin Complexity is High - To Fine Tune Features you need to invest in training or high level support
- Flexibility in delivery could be better, some solutions are on or off
- Cost is high and inflexible when it comes to trying out new features
February 28, 2020
The Benefits of Mimecast
Mimecast is used across our whole organization. It serves as our email archiving system as well as our spam filter. It is also a great tool for catching phishing emails before they get to our end users. Mimecast also allows us to send large files, basically serving as a dropbox but cutting out the step of uploading the files.
- Catches spam and phishing emails
- Saves and archives all emails for the designated period
- Sends large files that are too big for Outlook to handle
- It has a great search feature for finding old emails.
- Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated so it could always improve on catching phishing emails.
September 02, 2019
An Invisible, Powerful, Magnetic Net that Catches Everything!
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is being used across our entire organization for e-mail security. The security solution covers both desktop and mobile clients. Being in the defense industry, a lot of very sensitive information is transmitted via e-mail, and to ensure that this is securely done is very important. Protection against unsafe links and phishing is another key problem that Mimecast solves.
- Runs relatively unnoticed in the background, not interfering with daily tasks.
- Has a very powerful search feature.
- Has a very intuitive management console for users to manage blocked addresses, their online inbox, and various other configuration settings.
- Requires each device used with it to be enrolled to open links. This enrollment is removed every time cache is clear.
- Links that are opened in e-mails are first scanned, and then the user is asked to confirm that they think the link is safe, and then only do you possibly get access to where the link is pointing.
- Sometimes Mimecast will place e-mails on hold, without sending a notification, resulting in delayed delivery. This can be avoided by working within the online mailbox and keeping a look-out for held mails.
June 29, 2019
Very Satisfied Mimecast Customer!
We switched to Mimecast Secure Email Gateway for our entire organization three years ago when our former provider discontinued the product we were using. It was a great upgrade for us! Mimecast does an excellent job of filtering spam and other unwanted messages. It also provides a lot of control in terms of the ability to modify rules, make exceptions, and search to find what happened to an email message. Furthermore, Mimecast offers additional security features which protect our users from threats. For example, Mimecast rewrites the URLs in all incoming messages and checks those when a user clicks to block malicious URLs.
- Excellent filtering of spam and unwanted messages. It really cleans things up in this regard without producing a lot of false positives.
- It has great security features that enable us to protect our users from email borne threats.
- Powerful configuration options that help you to dial in exactly how you want Mimecast to behave.
- A great Outlook add-in for users that is simple and convenient.
- Mimecast offers the ability to spool mail if your mail server is down. Users can access this spooled mail for business continuity.
- The admin console is powerful, but it isn't always intuitive. It seems like things could be a little better organized to make it easier for admins to use.
- The impersonation protection rule is good and keeps getting better, but could still use work.
December 17, 2018
Mimecast - End User's Dream for Spam and Malware
Mimecast is used by our entire organization for our business continuity plan as well as our production email security. We added the email threat management package to our original subscription in 2017. We license each user and use it in conjunction with high availability Exchange on prem and SMSMSE for antivirus.
- Mimecast is fantastic as a spam blocker. Our users get the traditional noon day email with their "held" items for release at their discretion, but we have a small rate of failure for recognizing true spam vs. true emails.
- It is extremely easy for the users to use, especially with the Outlook ribbon feature enabled so that they can access their held (spam) emails, allowed senders list (white list), blocked senders list (blacklist) and other features quickly.
- We have experienced a few outages or maintenance windows internally for our on prem email system, but we have not had Mimecast unavailable for us once. It's been 100% reliable.
- The Admin Management console is absurdly complicated. For every first time we wanted to setup we've had to call their support for assistance. Support is quick and fantastic but it's so difficult to do anything yourself. They seem to have gone out of their way to call features unique things instead of using standard language from other providers so you as an IT professional know what you're looking for to setup.
- They have lots of KB articles, which their support will point you to. They are written on the most basic level and don't actually provide the help you need. For example, the KB page will tell you the list of options on the page... but not actually tell you what you do, why you might use them, or define their terminology.
- Their email threat management system has several nice features. One of the features available is that it will rewrite links in emails so that users click the link and it sandboxes the link, testing it on their server space and the user sees it there. This means the actual link in the email gets changed to the address of one of their servers. As a law firm, the EXACT LINKS are important to maintain in our communications and editing actual data from our clients to point to a Mimecast server is an unacceptable practice. I wish they had an alternative that did not edit the link itself on the page.
November 30, 2018
Protect your system and enhance your outbound mail
We implemented Mimecast as an extra layer of protection in our cyber security plan. We opted to implement company-wide to ensure all departments were protected.
When we were first shown the platform we were only looking for a solution to replace our then current automatic disclaimer, however, we soon realised it was much more than this. The disclaimer option was just one feature of a security gateway platform.
When we were first shown the platform we were only looking for a solution to replace our then current automatic disclaimer, however, we soon realised it was much more than this. The disclaimer option was just one feature of a security gateway platform.
- URL Protection - Mimecast filters and checks every URL which allows a double check for malicious links. Each link is re-directed through the Mimecast platform and if it is malicious the user is prohibited from accessing it. Occasionally it will ask the user to decide whether the link is clean or not to help train user awareness. I find this very helpful in reducing downtime from false links.
- Attachment Protection - alongside filtering URLs Mimecast also checks all attachments for malicious code and other undesirable content. If it identifies something that doesn't look right it will hold the email and notify the user. If it is an expected email, it can be released to a sandbox to verify the contents. We have found this very useful in preventing phishing attacks through malicious code sent in word documents.
- Bounced & Rejected mail - Mimecast employs a host of different filters and rules for mail traffic. Should mail meet certain criteria it either bounces or is rejected. This can be for many reasons. Impersonation is a classical and very useful filter which rejects phishing mail from people trying to impersonate individual users. Following implementation, we have seen a vast reduction in mail purporting to be from us sent to us.
- Held mail - this is a form of junk mail filtering. When an email is identified by Mimecast as potential junk or spam it will hold the email in the queue and send a notification email to the user allowing them to block, allow, or release. If you release the email it will allow you to receive that specific email but hold all future emails from the sender until you select allow. This has helped to dramatically reduce spam and junk email entering our system.
- Mimecast also applies an automatic disclaimer to all outbound email. There is a lot of functionality which allows for different disclaimers to be used for different domains or departments etc. This flexibility is very useful for us as it enables us to use one system for multiple domains and departments.
- Designing the disclaimers is a little bit difficult as it requires advanced HTML knowledge. Currently, there isn't a visual editor just a preview page which displays the HTML content. It would be very good if they could add this functionality in the future.
October 25, 2017
Mimecast is the new hotness!
Mimecast is being used across the whole organization to provide protection against spam, malware and phishing attempts. We also utilize the Attachment and URL protections to bring an added layer of security to our end users. Mimecast addressed issues that we could not have thought of in regards to Whaling and Impersonation attempts.
- Stops spam messages based on it's vast known bad and reputation lists
- Easy to find where a problem exists in the chain of getting an email through it's tracking area
- Fairly easy to configure and setup with the very nicely provided guides and videos
- We've found that the console will timeout frequently when trying to search for various things or look at different sections of the console
- We have a hard time getting into support without waiting for at least a half hour or more