Technology 03 · Mimecast · Email and collaboration
Email & collaboration: protect email and collaboration, the leading attack vector
Email remains the attackers' main entry point: phishing, CEO fraud, fake suppliers, compromised accounts. Mimecast protects mailboxes and collaboration spaces, and turns users into the first line of defence.
AI-powered attacks, AI-powered defence
With AI, a fake email can no longer be spotted by its mistakes
Generative AI can write a convincing message in seconds, in the language and tone of a supplier or an executive. Signature‑based filters fall short: the intent of the message and the behaviour of the sender have to be understood.
$6.3bnIn reported losses from business email compromise (BEC) in 2024
FBI IC3 · 2024 Annual Report
2ndCostliest cybercrime in reported losses: business email
compromise
FBI IC3 · 2024 Annual Report
What AI changes on the attacker side
- Personalised phishing at scale, flawless and polished
- CEO fraud and urgent payment requests, fake bank detail changes
- Compromised legitimate accounts used for internal attacks, malicious links in Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive
How AI strengthens defence
- More than 40 layers of analysis, including behavioural AI and natural language processing to detect urgency, payment requests and impersonation
- Relationship analysis: the platform learns who exchanges with whom and shows warning banners only on real threats
- Sandboxing and AI code analysis on attachments, URLs and QR codes
- Automatic triage of emails reported by users and automatic removal of malicious messages
FEATURES
From the inbox to collaboration spaces
Email security
- Protection of inbound and outbound email
- Deployed inline (MX) or through the Microsoft 365 API
- Complementing Microsoft Defender
Fraud and impersonation
- Advanced detection of business email compromise (BEC)
- Protection against account takeover
- Analysis of internal email and mailbox clean‑up
DMARC
- Visibility on SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- Domain protection against spoofing
- Clients and partners protected in return
Collaboration
- Detection and quarantine in Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive
- Analysis of links, files and QR codes
Human factor
- Awareness micro-modules of 2 to 3 minutes
- Phishing simulations
- Risk score per user and targeted reminders in Teams or by email
Continuity
- Cloud backup mail service
- Archiving and search
- Secure sending of messages and large files
HOW IT WORKS
Every message analysed before it reaches the user
- InspectSender, domain, content, attachments, links and QR codes thoroughly screened
- UnderstandAI assesses the intent of the message and the relationship with the sender
- ActBlock, quarantine or contextual warning banner
- RemediateAutomatic removal of malicious messages already delivered, user reports handled by AI
HOW WE SUPPORT YOU
Email protected and operated day to day
Deployment
- Initial configuration and integration with the mail system
- Tuning of essential protections
- Testing and acceptance
Managed services
- Email security monitoring
- Platform administration
- Handling of false positives, false negatives and incidents
DMARC project
- Kick‑off, compliance, hardening
- Monitoring and governance
- Alerts on DNS changes and regular reports