Securing your email is a complex process that takes time and uses resources that can be better deployed elsewhere in your business. Moving on-premise email security into the cloud not only saves time and money, but also reduces risk and takes advantages of economies of scale to deliver an effective, dedicated security platform that unshackles users and releases the potential of your mail.
A MIMECAST WHITEPAPER
SECURITY-AS-A-SERVICE
THREAT MITIGATION FROM THE CLOUD
You can't treat security as a set of isolated point systems. That's true of your business information in general and of your email architecture specifically. Protecting information is one side of the coin; making it available and accessible is the other and if you do both right you can improve productivity as well as avoid risk. The cloud isn't just the most effective place to secure email, before any threats or intruders ever reach your network; it's also the most efficient. Cloud-based email services can offer full protection with the promise of availability and reliability too.Executive Summary
Securing your email is a complex process that takes time and uses resources that can be better deployed elsewhere in your business. Moving on-premise email security into the cloud not only saves time and money, but also reduces risk and takes advantages of economies of scale to deliver an effective, dedicated security platform that unshackles users and releases the potential of your mail.
A cloud email platform needs to have four key features:
. Confidentiality . Integrity . Availability . Control
That's what you get from Mimecast's security services, without having to patch and update a mixture of different security tools in your own network. It's a complete risk management and compliance platform, with anti-malware, anti-spam, zero-day protection, and policy enforcement. At the same time, there's a complete audit trail and secure encrypted storage on the Mimecast® storage grid.
It's just what you need to secure your email systems, and at the same time reduce costs and complexity.
2Securing email in the cloud
Security with universal accessibility Email intelligenceSecurity is more than keeping unauthorized You can give users access to a mass of useful users out of your network and viruses off your information about customers, products, colleagues, desktops. It's not just about encrypting data negotiations, existing contracts and useful contacts, or blocking spam, monitoring compliance, just by letting them search their email efficiently. ensuring privacy or protecting company Who is the best person to work with at a company resources, important as all of those are. If you you haven't dealt with recently? How quickly does take the wider view, security means ensuring a supplier usually get back to you? How often has the confidentiality, integrity and availability of a potential partner been recommended by business information. While line-of-business colleagues? Often, the information they need is applications and back-end databases are crucial, sitting in an old message, but if mail server quotas more and more of that business information is mean they only have a few weeks of email in their in email on desktops and laptops, which makes inbox then they're faced with losing access to key it both convenient and vulnerable. It doesn't business information or keeping PST files on their matter where in the value or supply chain you hard drive, which exposes the information to a host are, you're relying on email for all manner of security threats and impedes eDiscovery should of vital communications. it be required. Securing email - at rest, in use and in motion - Making email available and searchable in the is a key part of any IT security strategy and doing cloud means that it stays secure, but is still that in the cloud has significant advantages for accessible. It's the best of both worlds for the confidentiality, integrity and availability. For one user, the IT administrator and the business. thing, you're protected from spam and malware Users are no longer restricted by lack of before it ever reaches your premises; keeping up resources, and can take advantage of being with thousands of new threats a day is an able to work anywhere, and at anytime. unnecessary battle for individual businesses to fight. For another, as with other cloud services you're gaining the expertise and economies of scale of a dedicated service, which means savings on up-front costs and ongoing administration, making a big difference to how quickly you can see value from the system you put in place. And for email in particular, having it protected in the cloud means it's available in the cloud; as convenient as having it on your laptop but without the security risks. That makes the diff... [download for more]
