Mimecast for Outlook is a cloud-based subscription service that provides a fully integrated solution for email security, archiving, and continuity. It is an all-in-one email service that complements security features in Office 365 while providing comprehensive defenses to deliver Outlook secure email and protect against advanced threats, data leaks, viruses, spam, and more. Mimecast for Outlook allows users to access Mimecast email protection and other security services inside the Outlook interface. It eliminates the need to manage a collection of disjointed point solutions from multiple vendors and mitigates single vendor exposure with a broad set of tools for Outlook email management.
Mimecast for Outlook offers comprehensive solutions for Outlook email management, including tools for email security, archiving, and continuity. Some of the key features of Mimecast for Outlook include:
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Email Security: Mimecast provides comprehensive tools to stop malware, spam, and other threats before they reach the network. Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection scans all email to block malicious URLs, weaponized attachments, and social engineering techniques frequently used in phishing, spear-phishing, and other targeted attacks. Mimecast Secure Messaging provides an easy way for users to send secure email even when TLS encryption is not an option.
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Archiving: Mimecasts archiving solution provides a secure, scalable, and accessible archive of all email, files, and attachments. It allows users to search and retrieve email and files quickly and easily, even if they have been deleted from the mailbox.
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Continuity: Mimecasts continuity solution ensures that email is always available, even during an outage or disaster. It provides uninterrupted access to live and historic email, as well as the ability to send and receive email from a web-based portal.
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Large File Send: Employees can use Mimecast tools to securely send email with large file attachments that would normally exceed the limits of their Outlook mailbox.
Mimecast for Outlook is an Office Add-in for Outlook that works on Microsoft Exchange servers to protect the email platform within the widely used Outlook platform, covering a variety of threats. It connects enterprise users to a complex set of email protection tools that work in the context of the Microsoft Exchange server and the familiar Microsoft Outlook email messaging.
