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Mimecast Threat Intelligence

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What is Mimecast Threat Intelligence?

Mimecast offers a threat intelligence service, including the company's Threat Intelligence Dashboard, threat remediation, and the Mimecast Threat Feed for integration threat intelligence into compatible SIEM or SOAR platforms.

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Mimecast makes our job easy!

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Glen StatkiewiczView profile
Director in Information Technology at Altus Traffic (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Mimecast to mitigate email threats, web threats and also for Security Awareness Training. About 130,000 emails are received each month, with approximately 25% being classified as dangerous or SPAM. Having Mimecast has really enabled us to take control of what is coming into the company and gives us piece of mind that we are doing everything we can to keep the company's date and network safe.

Pros

  • Identifies malicious emails and blocks them
  • Allows us to take control of what we let in - and lets us make changes as we need to
  • Security Awareness Training has really engaged with staff
  • Lots of reports and things to customise
  • It doesn't get many blocked emails wrong considering the volume
  • Allows people to take control!

Cons

  • There is a lot of things and it can be hard to find what you're after sometimes
  • Probably needs to be a central management console with your most used features that dynamically updates to find things easier

Most Important Features

  • Security Awareness Training
  • Impersonation protection
  • blocking websites
  • the personal email portal

Return on Investment

  • It has stopped numerous threats
  • having an all in-in-one system gives us great protection
  • Around 25% (30,000) emails are blocked each month.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Sophos Intercept X, Cisco Meraki MX

Mimecast a key layer in any business email infrastructure

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James BarnettView profile
CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Corporate at Smart solutions group (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Mimecast platform provides the initial entry point for inbound email services. It delivers primarily security and enhanced protection prior to emails reaching office 365 infrastructure. It then offers resiliency of email services should office 365 encounter any substantial issues. By taking a tiered approach to email security we are able to reduce the chances of malicious or unwanted emails and attachments reaching the mail client

Pros

  • Spam filtering
  • Virus scanning
  • URL protection

Cons

  • The user interface is not the most user friendly
  • The structure of menus is somewhat clunky
  • Predefined templates for protection

Most Important Features

  • Virus protection
  • URL filtering

Return on Investment

  • The threats it protects against could have led to an issue without the solution
  • Less staff time wasted as less spam emails

Best email security ever had

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vinoth kumar
Sr system administrator in Information Technology at Inoryasoft Pvt ltd (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mimecast to filter spam emails and it helps us to protect from email threats. We also monitor incoming emails of users in the organization. It does block if the email is suspicious or malicious emails which helps us to keep our network safe.URL security is also on point it does help us in protecting users to visit a malicious website.

Pros

  • Email security helps to block malicious emails
  • URl protection helps to block suspicious websites
  • Security awareness training were conducted
  • They do have a plugin for outlook to search archive mails

Cons

  • At times there are some lags found in console
  • Price is bit high
  • It does block regular emails sometimes.

Most Important Features

  • URL protection
  • Email security
  • Cloud archive outlook plugin
  • Web security

Return on Investment

  • We use it to protect our email database from threats and malicious attacks
  • There is no ROI to this product , Since it is a security based service.

Mimecast Threat Intel is a great value added service.

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Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • URL protection policies work well
  • Impersonation protection features help cut down on emulated spam and phishing attempts

Cons

  • The interface for the threat intel dashboard could use some updating
  • Slowness in the console persists occassionally

Return on Investment

  • Saves time and manpower as the console can easily be managed by 1 person
  • Using the continuity feature could potentially save an email outage from preventing an organization from conducting business.

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection

Other Software Used

Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Palo Alto Panorama

You cannot go wrong with Mimecast. The yearly cost is minimal compared to the massive benefits it brings to email management.

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Because all incoming and outgoing (with journaling setup for internal email) go through Mimecast it is a one-stop-shop for searching out emails from past months or years. It is light years better than using local archives such as .pst files.
  • Since they touch all incoming email Mimecast is excellent our filtering out spam, malware and virus emails before it even gets to your server whether on-premise or in the cloud.

Cons

  • The system is so good I could only think of two flaws and that is after using it for 4 years. The first being that although they have a great web-based management utility the pages themselves render/work slowly such that it sometimes takes a bit of time to click around.
  • Mimecast offers an Outlook plugin or web-based method to search through old archived emails. Both are significantly slower than if you had them in a local file of some kind. It's the negative side of going to the cloud for this process but does cause some users to complain.

Return on Investment

  • The addition of Mimecast to our arsenal lessens the burden on internal IT resources to help users manage their own spam white lists, archive searches, and user education when it comes to nefarious emails.
  • Having Mimecast's capabilities allows us to gain lower insurance premiums where it pertains to IT Security and continuity polices.

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection

Other Software Used

PlanGrid, Ascentis, Citrix ShareFile, Windows Server, Windows Server Failover Clustering, PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor, Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate, Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V, Bluebeam Revu