Is Mimecast Failing its customers?
Mimecast is a basic email Cloud Service for Security & Archiving. It provides security solutions based on traditional gateway approaches to email security. But it relies on basic anomaly detection to analyse email content with no dynamic analysis whilst only using static dictionary matching to identify impersonation in phishing emails. This provides less protection than real-time analysis. Email protection can also only be deployed using MTA, this requires disabling built-in security features in Microsoft 365, reducing overall security.
Mimecast provides the following features:
Email Security
Increase Cyber Resilience
Data protection
Mimecast also forces customers to modify their MX records to direct email through the secure email gateway. This is disruptive, invasive, and provides attackers with valuable intelligence for tailoring their attacks. Administrators must manually define data types for DLP. This is complex, time-consuming, and runs the risk that an oversight will result in the leakage of sensitive information.
We asked business professionals for some feedback (peerspot.com)
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly block listed by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is block listed, it means all my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"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."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
Have you considered Check Point as an alternative?
Check Point provides solutions across all vectors to prevent 5th generation cyber-attacks.
The Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration suite provides email security protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other collaboration and file-sharing applications.
Harmony is the first solution to implement API-based integration, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) for email security.
Some of the features offered by Check Point are:
Network Security
Cloud Security
Endpoint Security
Many organisations have expanded their online collaboration toolsets, adding apps like Slack and Teams. Check Point’s Harmony Email and Collaboration suite provides protection across all collaboration platforms. It also provides protection against advanced phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks. These threats are blocked before they reach the inbox across inbound, outbound, and internal email communications in real-time. It identifies and blocks sensitive data from leaving the organisation via email and other online collaboration apps.
Lastly it Identifies and blocks attempted account takeover attacks, keeping users and the organisation safe.