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Mimecast Advanced Email Security vs Vade for M365 comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 2, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Mimecast Advanced Email Sec...
Ranking in Email Security
4th
Ranking in Office 365 Protection
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Email Archiving (1st), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (3rd)
Vade for M365
Ranking in Email Security
34th
Ranking in Office 365 Protection
10th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Office 365 Protection category, the mindshare of Mimecast Advanced Email Security is 22.7%, up from 19.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vade for M365 is 5.2%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Office 365 Protection Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mimecast Advanced Email Security22.7%
Vade for M3655.2%
Other72.1%
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Featured Reviews

Avinash Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - EUC at Finthrive
Advanced email filtering has blocked massive spam volumes and prevents unauthorized data leaks
Improvements for Mimecast Advanced Email Security include enhancing the user interface and accessibility, particularly regarding admin capabilities to add or modify user accounts. Streamlining this could improve overall usability and security management for users. Reporting is another area needing improvement in Mimecast Advanced Email Security, as the reports provided are not very easy to decipher. With artificial intelligence being integrated into various tools including Mimecast Advanced Email Security, I believe there is potential to enhance functionality, enabling users to ask specific questions and retrieve concise answers instead of overwhelming data. I choose a nine for Mimecast Advanced Email Security because improvements such as better user interface and artificial intelligence integration features would greatly enhance its usability. While no tool is perfect, these adjustments could greatly elevate Mimecast Advanced Email Security's capabilities.
Bruno Rolland - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial Director at DC Communication (DCC)
A stable tool capable of detecting malware while focusing on anti-phishing to protect its users
I don't see ISO 27001 in the solution. While working on the solution, sometimes a customer needs to have a conformity level of SOC 1 or SOC 2 or some other conformity level. I did not see the aforementioned conformity levels added to the solution. Concerning a bank, data can be confidential, and when a bank needs to transfer such data, it has to be specific to a certain level of conformity, which I did not see in the product. Vade needs to incorporate the aforementioned aspects to improve their solution.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is stable and reliable; there are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze."
"Mimecast is a brilliant product; it works very well, I have very seldomly, if ever, had any problems with it, and it does exactly what it promises to do."
"The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze."
"I recommend Mimecast based on customer requirements and budget."
"If you want the ease of use, then Mimecast, or at least a cloud solution, is the way to go."
"The reviewer gave Mimecast Email Security a rating of 10 out of 10."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"It has all the features required for distribution, such as the ability to mail."
"It is a stable solution...My company has no worries about the deployment phase of Vade for Office 365."
 

Cons

"The lock in is very, very tight. It is impossible to move out of Mimecast to a different product, like Proofpoint or 365 ATP, and keep the chain of custody for every email that I've archived."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"Mimecast need to ensure that the body text format is correctly handled and that images are properly embedded in the body text."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"As an area of improvement for Mimecast Advanced Email Security, I would like to see enhancements in capabilities to eliminate false positives even before emails hit the mailbox, leveraging AI functionalities."
"Improvements for Mimecast Advanced Email Security include enhancing the user interface and accessibility, particularly regarding admin capabilities to add or modify user accounts."
"Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints. However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year."
"Mimecast needs to reduce the number of false positive emails; a big pain point for us."
"Concerning a bank, data can be confidential, and when a bank needs to transfer such data, it has to be specific to a certain level of conformity, which I did not see in the product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is expensive."
"The licensing costs are per-user for the product that you get with them."
"Its price is in the middle range. It is a structured licensing model where there are various components that you can add or choose to add or not."
"Compared to the other products in the market, it is neither cheap but nor very expensive. I would rate it somewhere in the middle, 5 out of 10."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The product has good pricing in terms of return on investment."
"The product price is moderate. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a ten."
"Vade for Office 365 is a solution offered at competitive prices in the market...Payment has to be made for the whole bundle of Vade products."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
Retailer
19%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection?
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Also Known As

Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection, Mimecast Web Security, Mimecast Mailbox Continuity, Email and Collaboration Threat Protection
Vade for Office 365, Vade Secure Office 365
 

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Sample Customers

Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), Cushman and Wakefield, PIB Group, Swissport
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