Mimecast Advanced Email Security Features
Administration (8)
Intelligence Reporting
Based on 117 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content
Email Integration Suppor
As reported in 120 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.
Access Management
Based on 117 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.
Data Loss Prevention
As reported in 101 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.
Compliance
As reported in 112 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
Intelligence Reporting
As reported in 124 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content
Email Clients
Based on 127 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.
Role-Based Rules
Based on 127 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.
Maintenance (4)
Auditing
This feature was mentioned in 116 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.
Allow and block lists
Based on 121 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications
Compliance
Based on 108 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
Archiving
Based on 115 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference
Security (6)
Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam
This feature was mentioned in 132 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.
Encryption
110 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments.
Quarantine
128 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
123 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
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.
Anti-Phishing
As reported in 126 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.
Account takeover prevention
88 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.
Detection (3)
Data Exfiltration Detection
This feature was mentioned in 115 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information.
Activity Monitoring
Based on 119 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection.
Real-Time Detection
126 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.
Protection (3)
Targeted Attack Prevention
125 reviewers of Mimecast Advanced Email Security have provided feedback on this feature.
Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails.
Policy Enforcement
This feature was mentioned in 130 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance.
Spam Filtering
As reported in 133 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews.
Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox.
Functionality (9)
Anti-Spam
Based on 133 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.
Anti-Malware
Based on 133 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.
Anti-Phishing
Based on 133 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.
Filtering Functionality
Based on 131 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.
Quarantine
Based on 131 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.
Outbound Email Monitoring
Based on 126 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.
Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection
Based on 129 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.
Archiving
Based on 123 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team.
Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.
Reporting
Based on 130 Mimecast Advanced Email Security reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team.
Offers standard reporting functionality.
Agentic AI - Secure Email Gateway (1)
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Intelligent Email Protection (2)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience





