Factual Product Summary
Mimecast Cloud Archive from Mimecast focuses on email retention and archive search. It is email and messaging security technology used for protecting or governing business messaging. Capabilities - Archived correspondence search: Supports locating message records within the archive available to an authorized user. - Retention and e-discovery workflows: Supports the documented retention and investigation requirements for archived email information. - Email retention and search: Preserves and searches message data for the retention or investigation use cases described by the vendor. Use and operational context Mimecast Cloud Archive is relevant to teams administering email protection and message investigation when the requirement centers on protecting or governing business messaging. Scope the evaluation around the functions listed above and the assets or workflows that need coverage. A useful trial should use representative business conditions so the team can assess the quality of the results and the effort needed to act on them. Deployment and evaluation Deployment: Cloud service / SaaS. Before adoption, review mail routing or API permissions, incident handling, legitimate-message delivery and the exact services included in the license. Assign an owner for administration, document required permissions and identify how the product or service will fit the existing operating process. Buyer questions - What is the main purpose? Mimecast Cloud Archive focuses on protecting or governing business messaging. - What should a proof of concept establish? Test the listed capabilities against representative assets and workflows, record useful results and unresolved gaps, and confirm who handles follow-up work. - What should be confirmed before purchase? Ask the vendor which edition or service scope includes the required features, which dependencies must be configured and what licensing or contract terms apply. Pricing has not been verified for this catalog.
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About the Vendor
Mimecast offers a portfolio covering improving how employees recognize and handle security risks and protecting or governing business messaging. The entries in this catalog include Mimecast Awareness Training, Mimecast Cloud Archive and Mimecast Email Security. Mimecast Awareness Training focuses on security behavior education and phishing simulation. Mimecast Cloud Archive focuses on email retention and archive search. Mimecast Email Security focuses on email threat detection and phishing protection. When reviewing Mimecast, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for training relevance, simulation design, reporting methods and the treatment of employee information. Portfolio detail - Mimecast Awareness Training: the catalog lists Security training content, Adaptive learning, User risk insights. - Mimecast Cloud Archive: the catalog lists Archived correspondence search, Retention and e-discovery workflows, Email retention and search. - Mimecast Email Security: the catalog lists Phishing detection, Business email compromise detection, Attachment threat analysis. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.