Mimecast Advanced Email Security Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 , Abnormal Security , and Proofpoint Email Protection are common alternatives for Mimecast Advanced Email Security.

Overview

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.

Recent Reviews

Mimecast Advanced Email Security solved all our problems!

9 out of 10

March 27, 2024

Mimecast Advanced Email Security provides quick and efficient spam filtering, plus additional mail delivery customisation in a traditional …

Tackle the rising threat of spam!

10 out of 10

March 20, 2024

Incentivized

Used to address improving our spam detection at a mail gateway level (not API driven)

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway - eliminates email filtering headaches

8 out of 10

March 08, 2024

Incentivized

Our company uses Mimecast to secure all incoming and outgoing email, and filter out any incoming spam or malicious emails. Mail is …

Mimecast Review

9 out of 10

January 26, 2024

Incentivized

Mimecast sits in front of our On Premise Virtual Machine Exchange 2019 Exchange Server. Used for blocking filtering emails, checking …

Mimecast - Good Email Security for Small Business.

5 out of 10

January 17, 2024

Incentivized

We used Mimecast for all of our incoming and outgoing email filtering. Mimecast helped deal with a lot of spam. It also handled our …

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is much more than a spam blocker!

8 out of 10

September 13, 2023

Incentivized

We use Mimecast Secure Email Gateway to control spam, block unwanted viruses, send/receive large files, send/receive secure emails and …

You really do get what you pay for - Top Notch Protection with a Modular Approach

9 out of 10

September 07, 2023

Incentivized

As our primary protection gateway for all incoming and outgoing email against current and next gen threats. Increased levels of phishing, …

Total protection using Mimecast

10 out of 10

April 06, 2021

Incentivized

We use Mimecast Secure Email Gateway across our whole organization. It helps protect our end users from unwanted SPAM and phising emails …

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway. Simple to use.

8 out of 10

March 15, 2021

Incentivized

We have been using Mimecast Services including Secure Email Gateway for many years now. It addresses our need to communicate with our …

Mimecast works well

8 out of 10

March 14, 2021

Incentivized

We use Mimecast Secure Email deployed organization-wide to manage all of our email services - it processes all incoming messages before …

The Benefits of Mimecast

10 out of 10

February 28, 2020

Incentivized

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 …

Mimecast - Worth The Time and Money

10 out of 10

February 12, 2020

Incentivized

Mimecast is used as the primary spam filtering software for our company. Mimecast protects our main mail services by being an intermediary …

Remove one major headache from your life and consider Mimecast Secure Gateway.

10 out of 10

January 31, 2020

Incentivized

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is first and last stop our email makes as it traverses to and from us. We have our MX records set such that …

Mimecast remains the gold standard of email edge filtering.

10 out of 10

January 14, 2020

Incentivized

We use Mimecast as our mail delivery point for the entire organization. Both incoming and outgoing mail is filtered and scanned through …

Mimecast, Great for DR.

8 out of 10

November 16, 2019

Incentivized

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is being used by our whole organization, but our end-users typically do not interact with it on a daily …

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How Mimecast Advanced Email Security Differs From Its Competitors

Impact

Yes, migrated from Dataenter MTA product to Mimecast Advanced Email Security - easy simple transition, many like for like features to the users of the organisation.

Yes, the spam and threat detection is much better, so much less spam and junk in our organisation meaning much less risk!

Incentivized

Impact

Mimecast Advanced Email Security was already in place in the this firm when i started woriking here.

Incentivized

Impact

Yes, we were able to cutover from Symantec / Message Labs a few years ago.

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway allowed us to implement enforced TLS policies was faster than before as that process was taking days and some time weeks to finish.

Incentivized

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Popular Features

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Threat Detection (18)
8.2
82%
Anti-malware (19)
8.0
80%
Management Tools (19)
8.0
80%
Customizability (19)
7.4
74%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Hourly spam digests
Speed of sandboxing can sometimes take time

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

Easy admin console for security team
Processing time for sandbox

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Secure Email Gateway

Secure email gateway software prevents the transmission of emails that contravene company policy or contain malware, phishing attacks, spam or other unwanted emails

7.9

Avg 8.4

8
Anti-malware
(19) Ratings
Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software
7.4
Customizability
(19) Ratings
Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities
8
Data Loss Protection
(16) Ratings
A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.
8.2
Threat Detection
(18) Ratings
Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.
7.2
Sandboxing
(16) Ratings
Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security
8.8
End-to-End Encryption
(16) Ratings
In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it
8
Management Tools
(19) Ratings
Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

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Product Details

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Competitors
Tech Details
FAQs

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.

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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September 07, 2023

You really do get what you pay for - Top Notch Protection with a Modular Approach

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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!

Pros and Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Most Important Features

URL Protection
Anti Spoofing
Large File Send / Secure Send
User Awareness Inbuilt
Granular Config

Mimecast Advanced Email Security Feature Ratings

Secure Email Gateway (7)

90%

9.0

Anti-malware: 90%
9.0
Customizability: 100%
10.0
Data Loss Protection: 80%
8.0
Threat Detection: 90%
9.0
Sandboxing: 90%
9.0
End-to-End Encryption: 90%
9.0
Management Tools: 90%
9.0

Return on Investment

Protection form existing and evolving threat landscape via Email
Use awareness training ongoing
Due Diligence in terms of transmitting sensitive data securely

Alternatives Considered

Avast Email Security

The previous product (which Mimecast replaced) in Google Postini was a much more limited (and cheaper) product which did the basics but in nothing like the complexity and detail as Mimecast.

This was like going from a freeware solution to a Platinum industry leading solution (which it is). It's unsurprising that Mimecast see's significant use in the Legal sector as it's toolset is well geared for this.

We did look at Avast Email Security when we used Avast as or primary AV, however it seemed rather limited and it's flexibility which you really do need to fine tune the communication flow for your business.

Other Software Used

Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite, SOTI MobiControl, Fortinet FortiGate

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