The email security service has two main elements: a Mimecast Secure Email Gateway and Mimecast Content Power Tools – offering data leak prevention and enhanced email stationery. Together they offer the best possible way to protect your business’s email-borne IP from all threats – internal and external.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway
The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is built on our massively scalable mail transfer agent (MTA), which acts as your email bridgehead in the cloud, delivering multi-layered malware and spam protection that stops both known and emerging threats before they reach your network. It’s secure email backed by market-leading SLAs: 100% virus protection, 98% spam protection and 0.0001% spam false positives.
It also includes real-time, online queue management, end user email digests for personal quarantine management, and advanced email traffic routing capabilities.
Mimecast Content Power Tools
Mimecast Content Power Tools complements the Mimecast Secure Email Gateway with data leak prevention and enhanced stationery. It allows you to respond rapidly to new threats with granular and flexible email content and secure communication policies that can be applied in real-time.
Mimecast Content Power Tools also provides document metadata stripping, disclaimer and legal notice management, secure message delivery, and email stationery management and marketing tools.
How Mimecast security works
How it works -
Simple to deploy, simple to manage
- Switch corporate MX records to point to Mimecast
- Route all outbound traffic through the Mimecast platform
- All email traffic routed via the Mimecast platform
- Suspicious connections are dropped
- Multiple signature-based malware inspection is performed
- Zero-hour threat analysis performed to identify emerging threats
- Messages found to contain malware are automatically rejected prior to receipt
- Message content filtering is applied to further reduce unwanted emails
- Policy-based email content, attachment and image filtering performed
- Messages which trigger a policy are held in a queue for optional review and release
- Secure delivery methods invoked based on message content or sender and recipient rules
- Real-time queues are available allowing you to manage live messages
- Online traffic analysis available for managing live messages
Product Features
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway
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Mimecast Service Platform |
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- Centrally administered via single, web-based administration console
- Backed by financially punitive 100% service availability SLA
- Mimecast Webmail portal for user access to held messages
- Automated synchronization with company directory
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Advanced MTA capability |
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- Advanced routing capability
- Real-time view of all SMTP connections and rejections
- Online queue management
- Detailed transmission data for every email that is processed by Mimecast
- Reports email usage patterns
- Protection from email-based attacks e.g. denial of service (DoS) , directory harvest (DHA)
- Large attachment management with strip and link capability
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Email threat protection |
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- Multi-layered malware protection against known and zero-day threats
- Comprehensive connection-based and content-based spam and phishin protection
- Personal permit and block lists to fine tune spam preferences
- End user email digests for personal quarantine management
- Image scanning for policy enforcement
- Policy-based attachment management rules
- SLAs: 100% virus protection, 98% spam protection, 0.0001% spam false positives
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Content Power Tools
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Data leak prevention capability |
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- Granular email policy setting with Active Directory (AD) secure synchronization
- Content examination of email body text, attachments, HTML, headers and subject
- Weighted dictionaries for threshold policy triggering
- Intelligent identifiers for the recognition of structured data e.g. credit card numbers
- Recognition of known confidential files
- Recognition of known confidential files
- Risk management options; block, hold pending review, bcc a group, add content
- Metadata stripping and pdf conversion
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Secure message delivery |
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- Email encryption with best-effort and policy-enforced TLS
- Closed Circuit Messaging (CCM)
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Email stationery management and marketing tools |
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- Flexible, policy-based signature and legal notice creation and application
- Corporate branding and imagery management
- Recipient click tracking capability
- Microsite creation and publishing
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