In addition to my main use case, Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers enhanced email security management, URL protection, attachment protection, and the ability to enforce DMARC policies effectively. My experience with Mimecast Advanced Email Security has been great, and I find this tool extremely useful for both email security and URL protection.

The best features of Mimecast Advanced Email Security include the flexibility to create customizable rules for email and URL protection, along with the attachment protection feature that blocks emails solely based on having an attachment. Features such as holding emails based on DMARC or SPF scores stand out to me, as they significantly improve our email security.

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Feature-wise, what we normally see as a provider is how well they are aligned with their confidentiality management like DMARC, SPF, and DKIM management. Mimecast Advanced Email Security has been doing an excellent job in that area, as well as the compliance part, including how they do email archival, legal holding, and eDiscovery. Apart from that, they also have features like awareness training and user risk scoring, which definitely helps as a provider to show the complete picture to end customers.

Regarding pricing, Mimecast Advanced Email Security will be at par with Proofpoint. They are not saying they are very cheap; they are a decently premium product in the market. The ROI discussion sometimes wins the conversations. Pricing-wise, they are slightly premium, and that is how everyone has positioned themselves in the market.

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The best features of Mimecast Advanced Email Security are strong phishing and spam filtering, URL malicious link protection, attachment inspection, impersonation and business email compromise protection, flexible email security policies, and good visibility into the email activity. Useful administration controls, integration with the Microsoft 365 environment, the ability to investigate, and remediate suspicious messages constitute additional valuable features.

Mimecast's multi-layer protection helps a lot for security teams when it comes to detection and categorization of emails. I assess its effectiveness by observing how efficiently it identifies suspicious sender domains, display names, impersonation, domain similarities, spoofing indicators, and social engineering patterns. This capability is particularly valuable for detecting higher-level impersonation attempts, those from a CEO or CFO, along with other business email compromise attempts that may not contain a malicious attachment or URL. For URL protection, I evaluate the number and type of malicious links blocked, including phishing URLs that may initially appear legitimate but become malicious later. The real-time scanning that occurs when a link is clicked is particularly useful for these scenarios. For attachment protection, I assess how efficiently the solution identifies potentially malicious files through malware scanning and sandbox analysis. I am also monitoring whether legitimate business attachments are being unnecessarily blocked or delayed. Overall, Mimecast's multi-layer detection is effective and reliable.

Regarding accuracy and reliability of output, since Mimecast Advanced Email Security reduces most of my tasks, I would say its performance is very good overall. In my day-to-day usage, its detection is effective at identifying suspicious emails, phishing attempts, or unusual communication patterns and other threats that may not be observed through traditional signature-based detection. The combination of multiple detection techniques is particularly useful because the system doesn't have to depend on a single indicator when determining whether an email is suspicious. From an analyst perspective, I also find the automated categorization and risk assessment useful for prioritizing reported emails, which helps reduce the time spent by the SOC team focusing on higher-risk incidents. Mimecast Advanced Email Security describes AI-based triage and prioritization of reported suspicious emails as part of its security operation capabilities. Overall, the accuracy is sufficient to be highly useful and very good for detection, prioritization, and categorization.

Some of the AI capabilities of Mimecast Advanced Email Security are very useful for detecting phishing and categorizing emails. What I appreciate is that the AI is primarily used to enhance security detection and administration rather than completely replacing human decision-making power. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning for areas such as anomaly detection, phishing, and business email compromise detection to identify unusual communication patterns and provide dashboards with graphs. From a governance perspective, Mimecast has established an AI governance framework that encompasses risk assessments, responsible AI practices, privacy considerations, and ongoing monitoring. The company is also ISO 27001 certified, which adds additional confidence that AI management and governance are treated as formal security and compliance requirements. However, I believe continued transparency around the AI decision-making process and data usage is essential. For security teams, it is very important to understand why an AI model classifies something as malicious and how customers' data is protected. Mimecast provides dedicated privacy and AI deployment information through its Trust Center.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security is one of the great email security tools, providing an additional layer of email security alongside Microsoft 365 rather than replacing existing Microsoft security controls. Microsoft 365 remains a core productivity and identity platform while Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers additional protection around the email attack surface. I find Mimecast Advanced Email Security to be highly effective for capabilities such as advanced email phishing detection and protection against malicious URLs and attachments. This layered approach is beneficial because threats sometimes require additional detection.

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Mimecast Advanced Email Security has state-of-the-art features and is very sophisticated compared to other partners. It uses multi-layer protection instead of a single security engine, offering strong phishing protection, which is particularly useful for protecting against credential theft and fake logins or Business Email Compromise, CEO impersonation, and vendor impersonation. Additionally, the URL protection and attachment sandboxing ensure that emails are thoroughly validated before release, along with integration with Microsoft 365.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security email protection solution allows me to define granular level rules and filtering through multi-layer filters with specific conditions or regular expressions. This setup helps safeguard emails and enhances the filtering modules of our existing systems, such as those in Proofpoint, specifically for malware and phishing definitions. Consequently, content and connection filtering occur at Mimecast Advanced Email Security level, enabling attachment and URL defense.

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The treat remediation tool to mitigate malicious emails that managed to bypass our defenses and somehow got delivered

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In terms of Mimecast Advanced Email Security, I think it is top in the market because of an MX record exchange. Mimecast also introduced cloud email security, which is a good feature. Another valuable feature that Mimecast developed is a product similar to Safetica, which can be described as a DLP feature. This DLP feature has been helping my clients significantly. Mimecast DLP solution is really effective these days. Additionally, Mimecast Advanced Email Security has a 14-day retention period. I know there are other products with longer retention, but 14 days of retention is more than enough for most of my customers. The retention period is one of the best features in Mimecast Advanced Email Security in terms of email security.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security blocks everything effectively. However, there is a delay when receiving an email. All emails have to go to Mimecast's cloud, and then after processing, they land in our Microsoft email box. There might be some delay, but it blocks a lot of emails and provides an update indicating whether you want to release or delete it. These features are really good. However, I personally believe that API email integration would be better compared to just an MX record change. This would eliminate email delays. Although it is a millisecond delay, API integration would be preferable rather than having a cloud gateway. Check Point has an API integration where it can directly integrate with Outlook, making it much easier and requiring less time to deploy.

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The best feature Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers is email tracking. Email tracking is really useful in Mimecast Advanced Email Security.

What stands out to me about email tracking is that with it, we usually can deep dive into any kind of email. If it is delivered, then I can see how it is delivered. If it is not, then I can see why it is not delivered. If it was blocked by spam policy or that VIP user email policy, or if there was any configuration issue from the sender side, we can inform them. Those are the most useful cases we use. Additionally, the attachment protection policy is really good in Mimecast Advanced Email Security.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security has positively impacted our organization by securing our environment better than before compared to what we used to configure earlier to deliver the email.

After configuring Mimecast Advanced Email Security, without our standard config, I notice less spam emails and also earlier detection of phishing emails than we thought. For example, there was a signature phishing scam on the internet, but Mimecast Advanced Email Security caught it before it came to fruition and instantly blocked that signature-based phishing scam, which is useful for anyone using such links in an email signature.

I would also like to add that we have used DMARC Analyzer from Mimecast Advanced Email Security in the last two years to configure the DMARC for Cimpress owner domain. That was a really good tool from Mimecast Advanced Email Security as well, and we did use and configure the DMARC for Cimpress.

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Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers various advantages, such as getting a document reviewed to determine whether it is relevant to our organization. It provides a brief review containing details such as file hashes and the contents entailed, helping me as a SOC analyst in determining the genuineness of documents and emails. I consider that a significant advantage of Mimecast Advanced Email Security, and it is very easy to navigate and manage senders accordingly.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security has an enormous amount of features that everyone uses. Mimecast Advanced Email Security has positively impacted our organization by serving as our email gateway for over four years. As a security person, we use Mimecast Advanced Email Security to analyze our day-to-day phishing emails and any other types of emails entering our organization. It easily generates reports about the kinds of emails coming in weekly and classifies them into various categories, making it very helpful to analyze and ensure our email gateway remains safe and secure by updating all security patches.

Regarding measurable outcomes with Mimecast Advanced Email Security, I notice that it saves time whenever we receive phishing emails because it automatically blocks them based on previous input, analyzing prompts and patterns. It generates reports on the phishing emails blocked, and we can review or release emails if needed, significantly reducing the time spent on handling these issues. Mimecast Advanced Email Security proves to be a useful tool, allowing me as security personnel to work in a more peaceful manner.

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Filtering from threats before emails are reached mailboxes.
URL protection and sandboxing. Potentially dangerous links are open in Sandbox rather than in user's web browser further helping with potential threats.

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One of the best features Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers is message retraction, which I really appreciate.

What I appreciate about that method is that I know that message SMTP logs help verify if the emails are successfully relayed or not from our server to different servers, and also the message I'm talking about is specifically for retracting any emails that were wrongly delivered to the recipient mailboxes.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security positively impacts my organization by helping us to deliver any spam or malware emails, which I know can cause our users to be in danger if any emails slip from the filters.

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Mimecast Email Security includes the best gateway solution across all Cisco, Trend Micro, and other solutions. For customers who want a traditional gateway, we suggest using Mimecast Email Security. For customers who want the advanced solution, we suggest Check Point for those features.

Mimecast Email Security's anti-phishing features are good and perform as expected.

Mimecast Email Security is a good solution because our customers haven't reported any phishing emails being delivered. It performs effectively as a traditional gateway solution. We haven't received any complaints regarding this solution.

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In terms of efficacy, Proofpoint is better than Mimecast, though it's a little difficult to manage. A distinct advantage of Mimecast is its ability to block phishing and impostor attacks, which are significant threats currently. Security is a major feature where email security tools like Mimecast have delivered value by identifying and preventing phishing emails.

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From the features perspective, are there any specific features in the Mimecast Email Security that you find the most effective in intercepting phishing attempts?

To clarify, you mentioned that you are using the AI-driven structure in their Abnormal functionality to indicate phishing attempts. Do you use any AI within Mimecast Email Security?

Have you worked with or utilized the targeted threat protection in the Mimecast Email Security?

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The best features Mimecast Advanced Email Security offers, in my experience, are BEC and Graymail protection. The BEC and Graymail protection features have helped me and my team by implementing a policy that pops for our CEO's name when it's used.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security positively impacts my organization by filtering spam emails. Those filtering and spam rules have made a difference for my team and my workflow by reducing both spam emails and the time spent dealing with junk mail.

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The functionality, including email archiving and data loss prevention features, is adequate. Mimecast Email Security offers certain features inherent to the product which are beneficial. In case of additional needs, I explore further customization.

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Mimecast Email Security serves as the main email security tool in our organization. It acts as the email gateway, scanning emails before delivery to end users. One of the most useful features is the threat remediation module, which can be used to remove malicious emails that may have been delivered or manually remove them. We benefit from visibility into emails being sent or delivered, and we can analyze issues like incorrect DMARC configuration by third parties. This provides a good understanding of user interactions with external parties. View full review »

We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users.  

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The product's most valuable features are impersonation protection and phishing countermeasures.

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Due to our specialized use case, that HIPAA dictionary really comes in handy due to the fact that you just can't find that in a lot of products out there.

It can scale. 

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We like the content filtering and secure messaging features. 

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The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up. It's one of the best products in the market that filters and does the job.

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I really don't know all of the features of the solution.

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The peace of mind provided is great. We're now certain business-critical mail is perfectly protected in multiple ways. Our whole goal is to protect everything that is mission-critical in more ways than one. It helps ensure mailbox continuity.

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We have 99-year retention and that has enabled us to get down to a 60-day retention policy on our emails, so that's pretty cool. In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there.

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We are monitoring emails that come from outside the organization. Some impersonation policies are in place, and we are tracking five different types of impersonation policies. These policies include external IP addresses, external users, reply-to mismatches, default inbound attachments, and VIP impersonation cases.

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Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution.

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The solution's performance is good.

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URL inspection works pretty well.

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The most valuable feature of Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is real-time alerts.

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The URL protection feature is valuable because it communicates all attachment-related activity and provides access to view the content of the message directly. Additionally, it can directly provide you with the content of emails if you have been granted access.

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It's very stable. 

We find the product to be scalable. 

The solution offers good technical support.

The price is reasonable. 

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What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail.

It does have integrations, and there is an app that can be added to Outlook to allow them to do what they need to do. 

While some of the setups are probably not as user-friendly as some of the other platforms, there is a lot of customization that you can do to the platform to help you pull up a lot of stuff that shouldn't be going into users' mailboxes.

I believe the world is going through a crazy period right now, and everyone is attempting to penetrate different systems as quickly as possible and change their ways of doing things. 

I have always found Mimecast to be very responsive; for example, if we see something come through, they address it and it helps to sort out the issues. Overall, I'm pleased with them. I think I just look at what's out there every year during renewal time to see if we're still on the best platform or if we should consider migrating to something else.

It has great reporting, and we can see what's going on.

I am pleased with the features we have at the moment and everything it does; it's only one piece of the puzzle for our environment, but I'm pleased with how it detects things and some of the functionality that we have had to set up due to the complexity of our business and security. I'm pleased with everything. I don't have anything specific in mind that I'd be looking for.

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We have found email security very good.

The gateway is excellent. 

We have found the archival services to be very valuable.

It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge.

The initial setup is straightforward.

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The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy.      

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The dashboard is very nice. 

It offers an easy initial setup. 

The solution has been stable. 

We can scale the product. 

Technical support is helpful.

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Among my customers, there was a lot of traction for the archiving. The targeted threat protection was also quite useful.

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It's good, it keeps the spam out. 

It does a really good job at not allowing threats through.

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Its administration console is very easy to use. The administration console is absolutely important because you interact with the platform through it.

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The security on offer is very good. It's great at preventing users from accessing malicious sites or email.

The filtering features are excellent. It allows you to any links an email might have. For example, when a user receives an email with a link, Mimecast takes that link and scans it, checking for any malicious content. If it's okay, then it passes on the email to the user. If it's not okay, or it's not sure about the content of the link, it then sends a notification to the user. It helps users to look at the user to see if it is a trusted source or not, and to decide if they want to open it or not.

The stability is very good.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The technical support is excellent.

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It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use.

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The two most valuable features are anti-spam and Large File Send. I know a lot of people that have Mimecast in front of Office 365 because it's a pretty good firewall in front of your email.

The Large File Send feature comes in handy when you have to send fairly large attachments.

They provide training classes online, where you can review with an instructor.

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The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature. They have a process where whenever they receive an email with an attachment, they process the attachment through a sandbox. Depending on your configuration, this is a customer-specific configuration, you can tell it to do a bunch of things. You can block the attachment, you can create a safe version of the attachment, or you can tell it to let it go or put it in a help queue for either user moderator or administrator review. 

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The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges.

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The security is pretty good, and that's why we're going to upgrade to an even more advanced package. 

We used it when we had a power issue, and it works. It has been pretty reliable, and the support has been quite good. 

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The platform's most valuable features are journaling and email archiving, effectively stopping phishing attacks.

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The solution's most valuable features are identity protection and sandboxing.

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