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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IRONSCALES

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AIRONSCALES is presented as a Self-Learning Email Security Platform To Proactively Fight Phishing Attacks, from the company of the same name in Atlanta.

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    Mimecast Advanced Email Security

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.N/A
    Pricing
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0
    up to 500 mailboxes
    Email Protect
    $6.00
    per month per mailbox
    Complete Protect
    $8.33
    per month per mailbox
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Considered Both Products
    IRONSCALES LTD
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    Mimecast
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    69 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    68 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    72 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    62 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of IRONSCALES and Mimecast Advanced Email Security
    Feature
    IRONSCALES
    -
    Ratings
    Mimecast Advanced Email Security
    8.0
    67 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings8.565 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.655 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings8.463 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings8.058 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings8.555 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings7.764 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Barracuda Email Protection
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (54 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (28 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IRONSCALESMimecast Advanced Email Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IRONSCALES LTD
    When deploying to a client who is very sensitive to email routing disruptions like those that can occur by putting an email filter in front of the email server, IRONSCALES deployment is extremely simple. It hooks into the user's mailbox, and not only filters point forward but a number of days back.
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    Mimecast
    Mimecast's advanced email security remains the number one security tool available for any organization. You will be ahead of the game before anything gets in and users start clicking. Users are often the ones who can disclose sensitive data and compromise the organization and its brand.
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    Pros
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    • Simplicity: Once set up, Mimecast Advanced Email Security is easy to use, intuitive, and simple. This reduces onboarding time with new employees.
    • Robust Audit Trail: Being able to see what happened with specific emails, why things happened, and who was responsible for them helps to reduce troubleshooting time as well as improving overall email observability.
    • Clean Interface: Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a Swiss-Army-Knife of email security. There are many different configurations and complex rules that can be implemented. To make this manageable Mimecast Advanced Email Security has implemented a simple and clean UI. Being able to favorite commonly used features makes a huge difference in usability.
    • Simple SSO Integration: This seems like a no-brainer, but its odd to see how many SaaS products either don't support SSO, or make it so complicated and convoluted that setup and maintenance becomes a fully time job.
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    Cons
    IRONSCALES LTD
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    Mimecast
    • I would like to see some additional improvement around the attachment protection, specifically what may be getting caught and what types of files are attempting to be delivered via email by impersonators.
    • The Targeted Threat Protection is a great product, and I wish there was a dashboard for this service where we could easily see the types of emails and/or links that have been caught as part of the protection module that could be shared with executives.
    • Finally, I feel that the phishing protection is great and honestly don't believe there should be much improvement needed there.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    There is no question as to the value of the product to the business and the disruption of changing vendors would not be worth any savings possibly achieved by switching.
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    Usability
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    The console is nice, but it could use some improvements for day to day activities for Admins. I find I am jumping around all over to get what I need (always searching for the right area). Being able to customize a Dashboard or having a central typical activities dashboard will be helpful to save more time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Overall, it's very good, but I do remember a few times in the past year we have seen some availability issues.
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    Performance
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Pages need to consistently load quickly. Sometimes good, sometimes not.
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    Support Rating
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    When calling them you get best in the world customer services but as previously mentioned their online community and capabilities are a bit lacking. They want you to log into their portal to see updates on issues (vs. using a public facing service) and I rarely find the answers to my issues in electronic format. Their online presence is only helpful with the simplest of issues.
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    In-Person Training
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    We did not have in-person training. All was done through meetings and on phone.
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    Online Training
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Training was good from Mimecast as well as the Mimecast knowledgebase.
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    Implementation Rating
    IRONSCALES LTD
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    Mimecast
    Easy to set up and configure, but did have Mimecast assistance.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IRONSCALES LTD
    Postini, Windows Defender (built into M365) & Trend Micro email security. Postini was purchased by Google and then went away. Trend Micro was very basic at the time I used it (many years ago) and utilized purely blacklisting tech but that was before the AI boom. Windows Defender is not as multi-tenant friendly.
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    Mimecast
    In my opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security outpaces Microsoft in terms of usability and reduction of spam and phishing emails. Mimecast Advanced Email Security was cheaper than Proofpoint, but I suspect Proofpoint is doing better on staying current with trends than Mimecast Advanced Email Security. I think Abnormal offers the best incoming email security, but does not offer outgoing email data loss prevention or encryption, which is a key use cast for us.
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    Scalability
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    The solution continues to grow and add features.
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    Professional Services
    IRONSCALES LTD
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Professional services for our setup was excellent, quick and knowledgeable.
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    Return on Investment
    IRONSCALES LTD
    • Understanding its limitations with regards to cyber security education campaigns
    • Rigid domain lists. Might be attributed to how we purchase through a distributor but if a client needs to add a monitored domain name, it must be requested instead of allowing me to do it myself.
    • Unclear if there have ever been any outages or service disruptions. Since it is monitoring mailboxes and not routing email, there is no outage client side. This could be a benefit but it also means end users might be unprotected during an outage.
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    Mimecast
    • Enhanced email security across the business.
    • This product has reduced the risk of being hit by malware/phishing; Mimecast has been holding emails efficiently after reviewing emails.
    • The reporting side is practical, helps create a business case for the product, and shows its worth.
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    ScreenShots

    IRONSCALES Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Dashboard, used to identify threat patterns, incidents, targeted teams, and campaign success.Screenshot of the Scanned Back Overview – This interface helps users to find and remediate idle threats lying in users inboxes with a 90-day scan back.Screenshot of a Banner message – These alert employees of probable phishing attempts.Screenshot of an Incident report, used to investigate and remediate suspicious emails that have been flagged by AI or employees.Screenshot of IRONSCALES on a mobile device. The mobile app helps users to make time-sensitive decisions and resolve incidents.