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# Mimecast Advanced Email Security Features

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## Administration (8)

Intelligence Reporting

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Email Integration Suppor

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Access Management

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

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.

Compliance

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Intelligence Reporting

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Email Clients

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Role-Based Rules

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

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## Maintenance (4)

Auditing

Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.

Allow and block lists

Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications

Compliance

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Archiving

Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference

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## Security (6)

Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam

Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.

Encryption

Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments.

Quarantine

Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

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

Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.

Account takeover prevention

Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

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## Detection (3)

Data Exfiltration Detection

Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information.

Activity Monitoring

Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection.

Real-Time Detection

Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.

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## Protection (3)

Targeted Attack Prevention

Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails.

Policy Enforcement

Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance.

Spam Filtering

Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox.

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## Functionality (9)

Anti-Spam

Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes.

Anti-Malware

Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients.

Anti-Phishing

prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks.

Filtering Functionality

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

Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails.

Outbound Email Monitoring

Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent.

Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection

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

Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.

Reporting

Offers standard reporting functionality.

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## Agentic AI - Secure Email Gateway (1)

Proactive Assistance

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

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## 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

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