Introducing Mimecast Secure Messaging

Email wasn’t designed for sending sensitive or confidential information yet it remains the most common form of communication in business. Meanwhile, traditional approaches to encryption have been costly and complex.

Credit card details, personal identifiable information and financial data are regularly put at risk when shared over traditional email services.

The result has been that employees regularly disclose sensitive, personal or confidential information to the outside world – often by accident but sometimes even maliciously. The price is the loss of business reputation, valuable intellectual property and customer confidence. Not to mention the risk of potentially expensive legal action.

This is why Mimecast have announced the launch of Mimecast Secure Messaging. This new service is designed to help employees confidently send and receive sensitive or confidential information via email.

Recipients access messages via a secure Web portal, fully customized and branded with the sender’s company name, colors and logo – helping ensure brand recognition and recipient confidence.

Here are just three scenarios where Secure Messaging would make a difference:

• Publicly listed organizations may need to share information about financial results or mergers and acquisitions via secure communications to avoid potential compliance and regulatory breaches.
• In healthcare, it is crucial to keep Protected Health Information private and in support of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Data leaks could damage reputations and customer or patient privacy and confidence – and could result in a legal dispute.
• Manufacturers should safeguard blueprints from competitors. Exposure of valuable intellectual property could destroy competitive advantage built from years of development and research.

Secure Messaging is part of Mimecast’s wider cloud email security suite; working alongside gateway, DLP and content controls to help organizations meet compliance regulations, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA and GLBA.

Email security is an essential part of your overall security strategy. It protects users from new and emerging email threats and enforces security controls on information flows. Technologies including anti-virus and anti-spam cover the external threats, but you must also enforce controls on the email flow from within your organization.

In the wake of continued high-profile data breaches, email users now expect to see a higher level of protection to be confident that appropriate measures have been taken to safeguard their sensitive data.

Consider the emails that your organization sends to customers, suppliers and prospects. Will your recipients be satisfied by your security approach?