My main use case for Mimecast Advanced Email Security involves addressing the large influx of spam emails that users experienced before its implementation. Previously, we were dropping thousands of spam emails daily, and while we tried mitigating this with Microsoft Exchange Admin Center, those measures were not sufficient. I wanted to ensure that every email entering our environment was thoroughly checked by Mimecast before being verified by Exchange Admin Center, allowing us to block numerous spam emails and create effective policies to prevent unauthorized emails.

One specific example of how Mimecast Advanced Email Security helped us was when we discovered a group of 16 to 17 users sending out data to their personal email addresses, utilizing various domains. We faced challenges tracking these incidents with Exchange Admin Center, as we could not adequately monitor attachments. With Mimecast Advanced Email Security, we implemented attachment policies that blocked emails with attachments from being sent out without approval, which significantly helped us prevent unauthorized data leaks.

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The primary use cases for Mimecast Advanced Email Security is email security, which focuses on email inspection, phishing, and impersonation detection.

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I have been using Mimecast Advanced Email Security for more than two and a half years.

As the name suggests, I use Mimecast Advanced Email Security for email security, protecting the corporate email communication from phishing, spam emails, malware, malicious URLs, malicious attachments, any impersonation attempts, or business email compromise. It provides an additional security layer around the organization's email environment and gives the security team better visibility and control over suspicious messages before they reach end users. It acts between the user and the email-sending server. In the cloud, it protects and stores all the emails. Before it reaches the user, it takes the action. That is the best and the main advantage of this tool.

For a client, they used to get more spam or phishing emails, so Mimecast Advanced Email Security used to categorize those emails before a SOC engineer even got to them. With more probability of an email being suspicious, it used to flag and bounce the email so that it wouldn't reach the user's inbox. That was a big help.

Most valuable in my day-to-day work, I would say, most of the work has been taken care of by Mimecast Advanced Email Security itself, so the SOC doesn't need to take care of each and everything. Day-to-day email protection covers a large portion of email that is based on attacks ultimately trying to get the user to click on the malicious link and credential harvesting attempts. Mimecast Advanced Email Security URL protection gives us an additional layer of defense by analyzing URLs and checking their destination when the user attempts to access it, rather than just relying on the reputation of the link when the email was originally received. From a security operation perspective, I find this particularly valuable because it helps with phishing investigations and reduces the chances of a user interacting with the malicious URLs.

In a positive sense, most of the email categorization when the email is received to the user inbox is done by Mimecast Advanced Email Security in a very dynamic way. The positive impact is mainly by reducing the number of malicious and suspicious emails that reach our end users. From a security perspective, it has helped us detect and block those phishing attempts, the malicious links, suspicious attachments, or impersonation emails. These are the biggest security issues, so it used to help us a lot. By that, half of the work would have been reduced, and the amount of manual investigation required for routine email checking and the team's effort was significantly decreased. Another benefit is the visibility it provides during investigations. When a suspicious email is reported, I can review the message details and security actions taken by Mimecast Advanced Email Security, which makes it easier to determine whether the email is malicious and what response is required.

When it comes to the categorization, previously I used to analyze each and every email that a user reports to my desk. Later, when I incorporated Mimecast Advanced Email Security as the email security tool, I just had a weekly task to do email analysis of which emails are flagged as phishing, and I used to block those domains. Most phishing emails are dynamically purged and bounced back so that they will directly move to the user's deleted folders rather than the inbox. This significantly reduces the chances of a user clicking the email link, making it a measurable improvement. The amount of manual effort required from the security team was greatly reduced as Mimecast Advanced Email Security blocked a significant number of malicious URLs, attachments, and impersonation attempts before they reached the user. For organizations looking for a benchmark figure, Mimecast has published customer case studies showing substantial improvements, with one customer reporting a 99% reduction in phishing and spam. Similarly, I have also seen more than 80-85% of my work reduced after integrating Mimecast Advanced Email Security.

Mainly in email categorization, I would say Mimecast Advanced Email Security uses a very definitive method in categorizing emails. Before using this tool, the help desk or security team spent a lot of time categorizing and reviewing each single email. After incorporating Mimecast Advanced Email Security, it reduced most of that time. Overall, it has reduced most of the manual work associated with email security. Initially, I had to review each and every email whenever it was received, but later I made it a weekly task so that I don't need to take care of each overlapping email in real-time.

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Mimecast Advanced Email Security is designed to safeguard email infrastructure and ensure spam protection, as well as to work as an anti-malware filter. It functions as a secure email gateway, anti-phishing product, impersonation protection, URL protection, attachment defense, spam protection, and also offers a Targeted Threat Protection module along with DLP scenarios, data loss prevention or data leak prevention, and an email continuity archiving solution, specifically addressing Business Email Compromise scenarios. All these modules I have worked with, and it provides multi-layer protection.

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We use Mimecast Advanced Email Security for email hygiene, blocking phishing attacks, malicious URLs, and scanning for malware within emails.

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My main use case for Mimecast Advanced Email Security is to protect the email environment for Cimpress and filter out spam, phishing, or unwanted emails.

In a specific example of how Mimecast Advanced Email Security helped with spam or phishing in my organization, when someone tried to spam our organization with emails, we usually block the emails through Mimecast by creating a certain policy where if certain criteria do not match, we do not deliver the email to the user.

Regarding my main use case, we usually record the email based on email domain security, such as if SPF and DKIM and DMARC are not validated, then we do not deliver the email to the user in Cimpress from the vendor or sender.

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Mimecast Advanced Email Security serves as my primary tool for managing emails since we use it as our email gateway. We manage various emails coming into our organization and filter which ones are genuine and which are non-genuine. It is a useful tool that helps us filter every non-synchronized email that comes into our organization.

When we face phishing email campaigns with various usernames incorporating our organization members, we filter out every username that is identified as a phishing email campaign and submit it to Mimecast Advanced Email Security, which immediately blocks it based on the suspicions we provide. This has significantly reduced our workload and helped us manage many phishing email campaigns we receive in our organization.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security produces a lot of information about the email, including where the email comes from, its source, and what it contains. It provides various details that I did not expect Mimecast Advanced Email Security could offer, which are extremely helpful to investigate and reach the best conclusion about whether emails are suspicious or genuine. Mimecast Advanced Email Security has helped me tremendously through these two years.

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Securing the mail communication.

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My main use case for Mimecast Advanced Email Security is to check the logs of inbound emails, and if something is blocked, then accordingly, I will review and provide the solution so that it will not get blocked next time.

For example, there was one external sender who was sending us an email, and that got blocked because of the DMARC policy, so I just checked the logs there to solve that issue.

Regarding my main use case, sometimes I just read the SMTP logs to check and verify if the emails are sent out successfully or if they are delivered, such as relayed to Microsoft 365 or the other mail servers successfully.

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My use case for Mimecast Email Security is that it's one of the best solutions for a traditional gateway. Check Point is the best for the AI-based solution. We are selling both as a partner for both solutions to customers.

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We are doing a POC (Proof of Concept) for a customer looking into offset solutions to see how it performs compared to other players in email security.

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Could you please describe a few use cases for it? What do you use it for? How do you use it?

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My main use case for Mimecast Advanced Email Security is as an email gateway. A quick, specific example of how I use it as an email gateway in my day-to-day work is as a spam filter.

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I have been working with Mimecast Email Security.

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Mimecast Email Security is our main email security tool. It acts as an email gateway to scan emails before they are delivered to end users. I have been working with the tool for approximately four years. View full review »

We use Mimecast to deliver email security to all of our clients. Between all of our customers, we have about 3,000 to 4,000 users. Some of our clients use Mimecast DMARC, too. 

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We use the product to address phishing attacks, security incidents, spoofing, attachment-based attacks, and impersonation. It sends image alerts to account servers before reaching the end recipient. It has behavior analysis and volume tools to detect and block malicious activities.

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We are our business is a nonprofit medical, dental, behavioral health, and optometry.

We have HIPAA in the United States. This is, basically, a patient privacy protocol. We have to stay compliant with HIPAA. Therefore, we have to monitor the content of the mail, both in and out, on a very basic level to make sure that it doesn't give outpatient information. This product has a built-in HIPAA dictionary, So that it will automatically scan inbound and outbound emails, based on a set of parameters that we feed into the system. It will stop anything it thinks might be a problem. It will let us know, and then we can review the mail and release it or reject it as needed. That's extremely important for us so that personal health identification information doesn't get out there for any patients. 

We also use it to track messaging. If someone says, "I didn't get a message," we can confirm or deny that based on what we see. 

We use URL protection inside emails so it will potentially block what it thinks is a bad URL. Those are often false positives. However, it's better safe than sorry.

We do all our spam filtering through it so that it will block any spam. If it's on the borderline, it will let the user know and ask them if this is a legit email; however, mostly, it's just blocking things, and we review. A couple of times every day, we'll look just to see if anything's getting held there that shouldn't be.

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Mimecast serves as an additional layer for email gateway security and data loss prevention. It also offers email signature management when Google's services fall short. Mimecast allows for uniform email signatures across the company. It also supports sending bulk promotional emails. 

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We use the product as an anti-spam solution and for archiving emails.

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We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery. We are on Office 365 as well, and it is a bit redundant. 

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We use this solution for email threat protection and archiving. 

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We have a client using the Mimecast tool. We observe multiple information sensors, such as default information, mismatched data, unknown IPs, and various user activities.

They use Mimecast to monitor outbound traffic, including impersonation and mismatched data. All these activities are managed within Mimecast. Companies use Mimecast to enhance network security within their budget. For outbound communication, emails go to Mimecast, where they are scanned and delivered to the user.

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We use the solution for email security.

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We are using Mimecast Mailbox Continuity for the security of email from threats, such as spam, fishing, and viruses.

We are currently doing a POC with the solution.

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Our primary use case for the solution is for monitoring emails. It also flags and highlights suspicious and new emails. Overall, it protects from malicious emails within or outside of organizations. Mimecast Mailbox Community is an email gateway required for every organization, regardless of size.

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We use Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection for email security.

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We use Mimecast as our email gateway. We also use it as our archival service. All those phishing, anti-phishing, spear phishing, spamming, and other security filters that they have, we use all of them.

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The solution is used for banking and finance clients. 

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Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection is used for email security, including both inbound and outbound emails. It is also used for phishing detection and safeguard the oragnisation’s communication methods.

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We primarily use the solution for filtering. 

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My customer base is made up of small clients. They all fall between five and 10 users.

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I am an investment research analyst. We use this solution for spam and as our security filter.

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We use it internally, and we support other customers on it. Enterprises and large organizations use it to manage their platform on a large scale.

It is a cloud product, so it is always going to be the latest version. Mimecast themselves are the cloud provider.

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The solution is primarily used to stop malicious emails with malicious attachments and can stop users from accessing sites or links that have a virus or malicious content. 

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It is our spam filter, phishing filter, and executive impersonation filter. We have its latest version.

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We primarily use this product to journal our email. If there is a disaster, for example, and our primary and secondary data center goes down, we can turn it on for email continuity. 

We don't take advantage of the archiving capability.

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Mimecast security in general, it's a SaaS service so they have their servers; they have everything on their side and we're just quote-unquote, passing the traffic through them, the email traffic through them.

Mimecast has multiple different solutions, all linked to the email. They recently added user info security training, but we're not using that. We, however, are using the archive piece and we're currently using their security threat protection. Regarding the threat protection — that does just fine. As far as the security goes — they had a big hiccup earlier this year where they were giving a false positive to a bunch of attachments. I'm not sure what happened on their side but for one week at least we had that issue. It took them a little over a week to resolve the issue. We also had some minor incidents after that, that they resolved.

Generally speaking, other than that event, it has been good. It doesn't block a hundred percent of the security threats received, but you have a lot of options to tag or even further analyze the messages received through Mimecast, either to a third-party solution or through an endpoint solution.

Everyone uses this solution at our company, whether they know it or not because you can leave it as transparent as you want it, or as user-demanding as you want it. There are specific items that only IT uses, but in general, this solution is used by one hundred percent of the company.

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The primary use case of this solution is to avoid phishing emails, spam emails, attachment protection, and URL protection.

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We use it for email availability. In case our on-premises mail servers go down, we switch over to this solution. 

We also use it for security. It has a security element, and it does malware checks. We are looking into purchasing Mimecast Email Security 3.0. 

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We use the product for email security purposes. 

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We use the solution for its security and archiving facilities.

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