Mimecast Advanced Email Security
January 28, 2025

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Randall Swarers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Mimecast Advanced Email Security

We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security as our front-end security for our 365 tenant. While 365 does offer security functionality it is rudimentary at best leaving you to configure and set up majority of the policies in order to be of any use. We didn't find this sustainable with email being a primary target for malicious actors. Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers a robust system that monitors every email both inbound and outbound for any malicious nature. They replace url links so when users click them it is first opened and scanned by Mimecast Advanced Email Security in their environment prior to the user gaining access. This has already saved us more than once.

Pros

  • URL Scanning to prevent malicious links from being opened.
  • Notifies users of emails that have been blocked and gives them some self-serve options to allow or block them pending certain criteria.
  • Very easy to use interface for admin management.
  • Uptime of their system has been phenomenal.

Cons

  • I'd like to see some AI analytics for trends that are hard to see in reporting.
  • I miss the tabbed interface to easily bounce between different sections. Would be nice to have the option. For now, I just open a bunch of browser tabs.
  • Mimecast Advanced Email Security continues to catch new threats as they come out. This is a big deal for us as we have experienced ransomware in the past which came through an email via a malware that wasn't detected by our previous email security system. That event is what spurred us to invest in Mimecast to keep these threats out.
  • URL Threat protection is another amazing feature as it scans every link sent even links you receive regularly for compromised websites.
  • Having Mimecast Advanced Email Security has allowed us to focus our IT resources on other threat areas improving our company's overall threat resilience.
The menus are easy to navigate when looking to modify settings quickly. An example would be impersonation emails. We get false positives which in turn the end user is notified instantly, and they can then contact IT. The system allows us to quickly pull the details and identify whether is it is a threat or not and release it all within just a few minutes from time of being notified. This allows the business to keep communication flowing with little hindrance while maintaining a high end of security.
Migration to Mimecast Advanced Email Security was indeed an easy to switch guided cut over. We came from Netmail Security Suite which had met our needs for many years prior. It was actually a two-part switch as we also switched email platforms which cascaded into acquiring Mimecast Advanced Email Security. We were using Groupwise in junction with Netmail Security. We then switched to 365 which we quickly realized didn't offer natively the email security we were looking for.
Mimecast Advanced Email Security had a large impact on our company when compared to our previous system as it brought many new features such as the URL protection along with a more proactive threat protection database catching new threats quicker.

Do you think Mimecast Advanced Email Security delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Mimecast Advanced Email Security's feature set?

Yes

Did Mimecast Advanced Email Security live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Mimecast Advanced Email Security go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Mimecast Advanced Email Security again?

Yes

Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a great platform for those who want a mail security system that maintains high security standards to keep up with the latest threats while not having to create/modify and monitor system policies to maintain the security themselves. It also keeps you well informed when issues arise with continuos notifications to both the end user and admins accordingly.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security Feature Ratings

Secure Email Gateway
9.7
Anti-malware
10
Customizability
8
Data Loss Protection
10
Threat Detection
10
Sandboxing
10
End-to-End Encryption
10
Management Tools
10

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