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FIREWALL?
Brandon Bekker, Managing Director, Mimecast
MEA, talks to Intelligent CIO about reducing
the risk, complexity and cost traditionally
associated with protecting email, and,
encouraging an ‘educational layer’ in addition
to traditional cyber security.
C
an you give is a
brief history of
Mimecast in the
region and the products
and services offered? How
have partnerships allowed
Mimecast to expand its
portfolio of offerings to
clients in the region?
Mimecast has been making email
safer for businesses across the Middle
East since 2008. Through our security,
archiving and continuity cloud services
we deliver comprehensive email risk
management in one fully-integrated
subscription service.
Mimecast reduces the risk, complexity
and cost traditionally associated with
protecting email. You no longer have
to manage an array of disjointed point
solutions from multiple vendors.
Our best-of-breed services protect the
email of millions of users worldwide
against targeted attacks, data leaks,
malware and spam. Securing our
customers’ mailboxes is our core focus
and being a cloud based business
ensures that we are able to quickly and
easily evolve our security services, like
Targeted Threat Protection, to counter
spear phishing and whaling cyber
attacks.
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We have established working
partnerships with two security focused
distributors, giving us access to a large
network of resellers across the Middle
Eastern region.
Looking at 2016/2017,
what does Mimecast see as
the main demands of end-
user security, archiving
and continuity cloud
services?
We have seen a definite increase in
the demand for our security services
across all markets. It’s estimated that
more than 90% of cyber attacks take
place through email, and according
to a recent global Mimecast study,
55% of organisations have seen an
increase in the volume of whaling
attacks over the last three months
with domain-spoofing being the most
popular attack type (70%). adhere to compliance and governance
requirements.
With new regulations around the
management of corporate and
personal information impacting
most countries, businesses are
demanding a single, accessible cloud
archive to address regulatory and
legal requirements and improve end
user productivity. End users need an
accessible, immutable and perpetual
archives for eDiscovery cases and to There has been a definite increase in
cloud adoption with many businesses
migrating to the cloud with Office 365.
Migrations of this nature can often
cause business disruption, resulting
more demand for Mimecast’s business
continuity services to help streamline the
migration process, maintain end user
productivity and mitigate the risks of
moving email infrastructure to the cloud.
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