Mimecast Cloud Archive

Mimecast is a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to address a wide spectrum of email and collaboration security challenges, with a particular emphasis on mitigating "human risk." Its core offering revolves around a multi-layered security approach that proactively defends against advanced threats like phishing, spear-phishing, zero-day attacks, and ransomware. Key features include a secure email gateway with sandboxing for suspicious attachments and real-time URL rewriting to neutralize malicious links. The platform also provides robust data archiving for compliance and e-discovery, along with mailbox continuity to ensure uninterrupted email access during outages. Beyond threat prevention, Mimecast is an integrated suite that also includes security awareness training to educate employees on best practices, thereby transforming them into a frontline defense. The unified nature of the platform is a significant selling point, as it consolidates multiple security functions—from threat intelligence to data leak prevention—into a single, manageable console, which can simplify management for IT administrators. For deployment, Mimecast is a pure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, which makes its implementation straightforward and scalable without the need for on-premise hardware.