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Mimecast Limited is a Jersey-domiciled, UK-headquartered company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail. The company is listed on the NASDAQ.
Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems. Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions.
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, who was amongst the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.
The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing through geographically dispersed data centers. Its Mail Transfer Agent provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.
- Secure Email Gateway: user optimized spam protection, malware, DoS and DHA protection. Real-time diagnostic and reporting; data loss prevention, secure message delivery, email branding and disclaimer management, document conversion and metadata management, real-time online queue management, large attachment management, advanced routing and spooling.
- Targeted Threat Protection: URL rewriting at the gateway with time-of-click scanning for malicious content before being opened.
- Large File Send: send and receive large files from Outlook, with encryption, optional access key and custom expiration dates.
- Secure Messaging: secure email channel for sensitive information either user-initiated or policy-driven.
- Cloud Archive for Email: Encrypted cloud storage which saves emails in triplicate in an immutable storage system.Users can access and search emails through an Outlook desktop client. Archive access is available via a Mac desktop app and apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Mobile devices.
Continuity: During primary mail system outages, email can be accessed via Microsoft Outlook, through a web browser and via mobile devices.
In January 2021, a Mimecast security certificate was revealed to have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to intercept communications with Microsoft-based email servers.
