Mimecast Smart Perimeter - Email Security, Email Continuity, Email Control
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Businesses are quite rightly concerned about email security issues in the workplace. Email's central role in business communications brings with it a number of unforeseen problems, including:
- Spam, virus and email attack methodology evolves and survives
- Hours a day are wasted identifying legitimate emails
- Email failure eliminates email communication with the outside world
- Sign off and review options for employee emails is poor
- Large attachments slow up everyone's work
- IT support costs continue to rise
- Solutions are difficult to implement
The Mimecast Smart Perimeter solves these widespreads email problems and adds a rich set of supporting features, designed to create a secure, stable, manageable email environment.
Key features include:
- A real solution to spam with no quarantine baby-sitting and no false positives.
- Unique 'Always On' email continuity feature with live webmail service for end users if your mail server fails.
- Total control of the system via the web.
- Content control and advanced email review.
- Specialised large attachment handling.
- Robust, multilayered virus protection.
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- Email control & supervision
- Large attachment handling
- Powerful email continuity services
- Next generation spam protection
- Email security with robust virus protection
Email Control & Supervision
Most companies are aware of the risks that email poses to their business and its reputation. It is a very instant, individually managed form of written communication and in certain special circumstances a degree of supervision or review should be applied to emails before they enter or leave the business.
Emails that may require supervision include emails to a particularly sensitive and important client, emails to suppliers, emails from new staff that require coaching, or from staff that have handed in notice. Mimecast provides an elegant "hold for review" email control capability which enables designated reviewers to preview any emails matching their review policy and to determine their delivery. This is a powerful business email management feature which in competing systems is far less flexible and requires ongoing IT involvement.
Mimecast enables review and release tasks to be handled by the most appropriate person with ease.
Large Attachment Handling
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Large attachments can be a problem for most email administrators. Unfortunately attachments are only growing in size with email being the default method of sharing or moving files in and out of organisations. Receiving them can cause storage bloat in the mail stores by increasing the size of users' mailboxes, and delivering them can result in IT support being required for bounce-backs from accounts with lower attachment thresholds where users need to be supported using FTP or other tools.
Mimecast offers a simple but powerful solution for large attachments by removing them from emails prior to delivery and substituting the attachment with an encrypted hyperlink, enabling the recipient to download the attachment directly themselves. This is a straightforward and elegant process that automatically provides relief from storage bloat. It also encourages users to file attachments on the files system and not to leave them in the email system, promoting better email management.
It smartly reduces the cost of support and ownership of an email infrastructure.
Powerful Email Continuity Services
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Email continuity is a naturally high priority for most IT managers. Keeping email services available at all times is of utmost importance to a company's operations but not all have the budget for clustered mail servers and off-site disaster recovery facilities. Even with these systems in place, companies need the assurance that during a switch over, services will be seamlessly maintained.
This is where Mimecast adds unique value, acting as a live standby mail server at the perimeter, accepting and spooling email until the primary email server is available to receive it. This gives Mimecast the capability to provide end users with access to spooled email that would be hidden from them by other solutions. The fact that employees can't access newly received messages and the inability to send new emails is the greatest source of cost and inconvenience during an email server outage. Mimecast overcomes this by allowing end users to log-in and access all new emails via a rich web mail client during a mail server outage, by simply using their common username and password. Besides new email, a policy controlled level of email history is also available to each end user. This facility can also be backed by a lower priority MX service hosted in the Mimecast data centre so that the same services are available in the event of a complete site outage.
Mimecast's email continuity facilities are the smartest and most cost effective continuity insurance policy you can buy.
Next generation spam protection
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Only Mimecast delivers a zero false-positive, zero adminstration antispam solution. Mimecast unique antispam and security methodology ARMed SMTP works seamlessly with all existing email systems to eliminate the problem of spam and spam management.
Content filtering has out-lived its useful life for spam protection. While it may block a percentage of spam, it can not keep up with the changing behaviour of spammers. In trying to do so content filters frequently misclassify legitimate email as spam whether antispam vendors admit it or not. As a result of these inaccuracies anti-spam systems require quarantine folders. These burden either an administrator or each end user with the responsibility of checking and correcting errors made by the content filter. This style of spam management can cost organisations as much if not more than spam itself.
Mimecast's ARMed SMTP works differently and provides the next generation of spam filtering - an anti-spam technology that is not dependent on content examination. Mimecast works using advanced reputation and authentication algorithms whilst learning who your legitimate correspondents are. It avoids uneccessary spam checks on people you do business with.
ARMed SMTP leaves spam with the spammers requiring no quarantine folders management. It restores the transactional integrity that content filters removed from the SMTP protocol so that no legitimate messages go missing.
Email Security Robust Virus Protection
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Computer viruses, spy-ware, worms, phishing attacks, and trojans are an unfortunate reality of today's Internet. They do not however need to be a problem for your business or its email infrastructure. Mimecast provides a robust multi-layered email security techniques to protect against fraudulent and malicious emails.
Mimecast's connection filtering technology keeps fraudulent email at bay and prevents trojaned zombie PC's from being able to deliver to your infrastructure too. Mimecast's flexible and easy to manage attachment controls provide a powerful shield against viruses - most of which still rely on tricking a user into running a dangerous attachment on their desktop.
Mimecast also implements industry leading content scanning to ensure that well known and new viruses are blocked in protocol and left undeliverable.
Mimecast Smart Perimeter - Email Security, Email Continuity, Email Control
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