Email security
Our email security solution, Smart Perimeter, has two main features:
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Anti-spam, anti-virus - A real solution to spam with no quarantine baby-sitting & no false positives and robust, multilayered virus protection
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Secure email
1. Anti-spam, anti-virus
Intelligent anti-spam
The anti-spam feature is an intelligent solution that eliminates the need for administration of spam while simultaneously eliminating false positives. Mimecast Offshore have developed a method that uses advanced reputation and authentication algorithms whilst learning who your legitimate correspondents are in order to guarantee a minimum filtering of 98% of spam and deliver legitimate emails 100%. The Smart Perimeter ARMed SMTP technology restores the transactional integrity that content filters removed from the SMTP protocol so that no legitimate messages go missing. The result is an intelligent system that leaves behind outdated content-filtering and allows you to spend your time elsewhere.
Multilayered anti-virus
Smart Perimeter’s robust virus protection adopts a multilayered approach to ensuring the best shield possible against malicious and fraudulent emails. With increasingly sophisticated methods of attack being employed traditional methods of viruses spam protection are becoming increasingly inadequate. On one level ARMed SMTP content filtering guards against trojans, mail storms, zombies and scatter back attacks while on another stream-based signature scanners block known threats and combat phishing and scams. A third level of protection comes in the form of heuristic analysis to ensure zero day threat protection, which is aided by attachment controls that also perform additional functions. These are to narrow options available to exploits, allow specification for organisational attachment lockdown, and guard against polymorphic threats.
2. Secure email
The Mimecast Platform is TLS-enabled for cost effective many-to-many secure email communications between consenting organisations. Deployment is a simple matter of ensuring that both delivering and recipient email infrastructures have a valid SSL certificate and then setting up a unidirectional or bidirectional policy in Mimecast. All subsequent communications will then be delivered over an encrypted transport layer.
Coming soon is secure email one-to-many. Native to the email management platform is the ability to have completely secure email communication with no requirement for additional software or infrastructure purchases. Once sent, email from within the Mimecast Offshore client organisation is held within a local secure vault and a message is generated and forwarded to the recipient’s email address alerting them that there is a new email in their secure mailbox. Recipients can then securely log into the system via an SSL encrypted browser connection and respond to email as well as view and search historic emails.
Mimecast Offshore also offers a unique collaborative facility which enables external groups of individuals to log in securely and communicate amongst each other and also access matter-centric, shared central views of team communications.
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