Mimecast Limited is an American–British,
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-domiciled company specializing in cloud-based email management for
Microsoft Exchange and
Microsoft Office 365
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, including security,
archiving
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Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...
, and
continuity services to protect business mail.
History
Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It has offices in
London
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,
Boston
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,
Chicago
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San Francisco
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,
Dallas
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,
Cape Town
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Johannesburg
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,
Melbourne
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,
Amsterdam
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,
Munich
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and
Israel
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. On October 16, 2015, Mimecast announced that it filed its registration statement for a proposed
initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...
(IPO). Mimecast began trading on the
Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "MIME" on November 19, 2015. The offering closed on November 24, 2015.
On July 10, 2018, Mimecast acquired cybersecurity training start up Ataata.
On July 31, 2018, Mimecast acquired
Solebit
Solebit is a privately held cybersecurity company, with main offices located in the United States and Israel.
Solebit's cloud-based, real-time SaaS platform is focused on zero-day malware and unknown threats. Solebit blocks malicious active c ...
.
On November 14, 2019, Mimecast acquired DMARC Analyzer.
On January 6, 2020, Mimecast acquired Segasec.
On May 19, 2022, Mimecast was acquired by and become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magnesium Bidco Limited, an affiliate of
Permira Holdings Ltd.
Founding
Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems. Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions.
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist
Nathaniel Borenstein
Nathaniel S. Borenstein (born September 23, 1957) is an American computer scientist.
He is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail and sent the first e-mail attachment.
Biography
Bore ...
, who was amongst the original designers of the
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message ...
protocol for formatting multimedia
Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.
Technology
The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing through geographically dispersed
data center
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s. Its
Mail Transfer Agent
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provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.
Email Security
* ''Secure Email Gateway'': user optimized spam protection,
malware
Malware (a portmanteau for ''malicious software'') is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, depri ...
,
DoS
DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems.
DOS may also refer to:
Computing
* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
* Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...
and
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Chemicals
* Docosahexaenoic acid, a 22:6 omega-3 fatty acid
* Dehydroandrosterone, an endogenous androgenic steroid
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protection. Real-time diagnostic and reporting; data loss prevention, secure message delivery, email branding and disclaimer management, document conversion and metadata management, real-time online queue management, large attachment management, advanced routing and spooling.
* ''Targeted Threat Protection'': URL rewriting at the gateway with time-of-click scanning for malicious content before being opened.
* ''Large File Send'': send and receive large files from
Outlook
Outlook or The Outlook may refer to:
Computing
* Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail and personal information management software product from Microsoft
* Outlook.com, a web mail service from Microsoft
* Outlook on the web, a suite of web applications ...
, with encryption, optional access key and custom expiration dates.
* ''Secure Messaging'': secure email channel for sensitive information either user-initiated or policy-driven.
Enterprise Information Archiving
* ''Cloud Archive for Email'': Encrypted cloud storage which saves emails in triplicate in an immutable storage system. Users can access and search emails through an
Outlook
Outlook or The Outlook may refer to:
Computing
* Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail and personal information management software product from Microsoft
* Outlook.com, a web mail service from Microsoft
* Outlook on the web, a suite of web applications ...
desktop client. Archive access is available via a Mac desktop app and apps for
Android,
BlackBerry
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,
iOS
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and
Windows Mobile
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Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...
devices.
Mailbox Continuity
* ''Continuity'': During primary mail system outages, email can be accessed via
Microsoft Outlook
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, through a web browser and via mobile devices.
Security and privacy breaches
In January 2021, a Mimecast security certificate was revealed to have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to
intercept communications with Microsoft-based email servers.
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