Mimecast Advanced Email Security Features
What are the features of Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
Administration
- Email Clients
- Role-Based Rules
Security
- Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam
- Quarantine
Detection
- Real-Time Detection
Protection
- Policy Enforcement
- Spam Filtering
Functionality
- Anti-Spam
- Anti-Malware
- Anti-Phishing
- Filtering Functionality
- Quarantine
- Outbound Email Monitoring
- Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection
- Reporting
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Orchestration
Asset Management | Based on 49 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Lets users group and organize their endpoints to gather threat intelligence on specific technologies. | 66% (Based on 49 reviews) | |
Security Workflow Automation | Reduces the need for IT and security professionals to iterate repetitive tasks associated with gathering threat information. This feature was mentioned in 49 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 81% (Based on 49 reviews) | |
Deployment | As reported in 51 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. The process in which users integrate their existing security systems and endpoints to the threat intelligence platform. | 81% (Based on 51 reviews) | |
Sandboxing | A feature that allows security testing and information gathering to occur in a secure, resource independent environment. This feature was mentioned in 51 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 82% (Based on 51 reviews) |
Information
Proactive Alerts | Based on 50 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Prior to security incidents, the product will alert users when a new, relevant vulnerability or threat is discovered. | 82% (Based on 50 reviews) | |
Malware Detection | Based on 51 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Provides multiple techniques and information sources to alert users of malware occurrences. | 88% (Based on 51 reviews) | |
Intelligence Reports | As reported in 51 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. The ability for users to produce reports outlining detailed and personalized threat information | 84% (Based on 51 reviews) |
Personalization
Endpoint Intelligence | Analysis for users to examine threat intelligence data specific to their endpoint devices. 50 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature. | 73% (Based on 50 reviews) | |
Security Validation | The product has a recurring examination process to update your intelligence reports as new threats emerge. This feature was mentioned in 53 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 83% (Based on 53 reviews) | |
Dynamic/Code Analysis | As reported in 47 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. The ability to examine your application, website, or database's code to uncover zero-day vulnerabilities. | 71% (Based on 47 reviews) |
Administration
Intelligence Reporting | Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content This feature was mentioned in 112 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 79% (Based on 112 reviews) | |
Email Integration Suppor | Based on 113 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients. | 83% (Based on 113 reviews) | |
Access Management | As reported in 111 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data. | 81% (Based on 111 reviews) | |
Data Loss Prevention | Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information. This feature was mentioned in 95 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 81% (Based on 95 reviews) | |
Compliance | Based on 107 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. | 85% (Based on 107 reviews) | |
Intelligence Reporting | Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content 119 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 119 reviews) | |
Email Clients | As reported in 122 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients. | 91% (Based on 122 reviews) | |
Role-Based Rules | Based on 122 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data. | 89% (Based on 122 reviews) |
Maintenance
Auditing | As reported in 111 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage. | 80% (Based on 111 reviews) | |
Allow and block lists | Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications 115 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature. | 89% (Based on 115 reviews) | |
Compliance | Based on 103 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. | 85% (Based on 103 reviews) | |
Archiving | Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference This feature was mentioned in 109 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 86% (Based on 109 reviews) |
Security
Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam | As reported in 124 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools. | 90% (Based on 124 reviews) | |
Encryption | Based on 105 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments. | 82% (Based on 105 reviews) | |
Quarantine | Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access This feature was mentioned in 123 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 90% (Based on 123 reviews) | |
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) | As reported in 116 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Includes advanced tools, including machine learning analysis to detect threats often missed by traditional filtering tools, such as unsafe attachments, advanced malware, and targetted social engineering attacks. | 88% (Based on 116 reviews) | |
Anti-Phishing | As reported in 118 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks. | 88% (Based on 118 reviews) | |
Account takeover prevention | Based on 83 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information. | 76% (Based on 83 reviews) |
Detection
Data Exfiltration Detection | Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information. This feature was mentioned in 110 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 83% (Based on 110 reviews) | |
Activity Monitoring | Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection. 114 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 114 reviews) | |
Real-Time Detection | Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time. This feature was mentioned in 121 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. | 89% (Based on 121 reviews) |
Protection
Targeted Attack Prevention | Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails. 120 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature. | 90% (Based on 120 reviews) | |
Policy Enforcement | As reported in 124 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance. | 90% (Based on 124 reviews) | |
Spam Filtering | As reported in 128 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox. | 92% (Based on 128 reviews) |
Functionality
Anti-Spam | Based on 129 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes. | 91% (Based on 129 reviews) | |
Anti-Malware | Based on 129 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients. | 92% (Based on 129 reviews) | |
Anti-Phishing | Based on 129 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks. | 88% (Based on 129 reviews) | |
Filtering Functionality | Based on 127 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides filters such as: approved senders, whitelists, greylists such as bulk emails that may not be malicious, blocked senders, blacklists, IP reputation, content (such as profanity, credit card numbers, password protected files, and other sensitive information), virus detection, re-directs and malicious URLs, newsletter detection, attachment size, and invalid recipients. | 90% (Based on 127 reviews) | |
Quarantine | Based on 127 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails. | 90% (Based on 127 reviews) | |
Outbound Email Monitoring | Based on 122 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent. | 91% (Based on 122 reviews) | |
Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection | Based on 125 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Includes advanced threat protections such as machine learning to conduct abnormal behavioral analysis, display name spoof detection especially regarding c-level impersonation attacks, detecting lookalike email domains that are visually confusing. | 90% (Based on 125 reviews) | |
Archiving | Based on 119 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes. | 87% (Based on 119 reviews) | |
Reporting | Based on 126 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers standard reporting functionality. | 85% (Based on 126 reviews) |
Generative AI
AI Text Summarization | As reported in 31 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews. Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. | 68% (Based on 31 reviews) |
Agentic AI - Threat Intelligence
Autonomous Task Execution | Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input | Not enough data | |
Multi-step Planning | Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes | Not enough data | |
Proactive Assistance | Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting | Not enough data | |
Decision Making | Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives | Not enough data |
Agentic AI - Intelligent Email Protection
Autonomous Task Execution | Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input | Not enough data | |
Adaptive Learning | Improves performance based on feedback and experience | Not enough data |