Item: Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Rating: 10
Author: Jessica Rondash

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Mimecast keeps the company safer from phishing attacks.
It gives us the ability to automatically archive emails removing that as a manual process.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM)

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Lucidchart

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Support Rating

Mimecast support has been very helpful. Whenever we have questions they quickly answer or let us know they are working on a solution.

The Benefits of Mimecast

Overall Satisfaction with Mimecast Secure Email Gateway