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and outbound servers and you are good
to go. Other than that, we had one or two
online sessions for operational training.
Could you tell us some more about
the usefulness of the Targeted
Threat Protection and Large File
Send features?
Large File Send: Securely sending large files
via email is a real problem. End users often
seek out ways to bypass corporate gateways
and turn to consumer applications to send
and share large file content. However, these
services often lack policy enforcement or
content checking, and few offer archiving
of email and attachments for discovery and
retrieval at a later date. They compromise
enterprise compliance and expose
organisations to risk.
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Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection:
This is an advanced email security
technology that protects employees against
targeted zero-hour attacks in email. Targeted
Threat Protection offers advanced protection
from spear-phishing and other targeted
email attacks which are primarily used to
launch ransomware attacks. Its pre-emptive
sandboxing security checks attachments
before they are delivered.
How far has the system future
proofed your company?
Email plays a vital role in our business. We
must store email records for a long period
to protect our business from claims and
litigations. We also need to be able to quickly
and easily search for information from these
archives at any point.
One lost communication could result in
improper backing in the event of a claim.
An email archive solution that requires a
lot of time or is expensive to maintain will
inevitably affect its business value.
To future-proof our businesses we looked
at systems with automated maintenance
and ‘as-a-service’ platforms. Mimecast has
helped us to improve employee productivity
by providing email history, Disaster Recovery
and has improved compliance requirements.
How long did it take to implement
the solution?
Two weeks, apart from the ingestion of old
archiving servers. This is because there were
large volumes of user archives and local
PST storage. n
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