Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 4, 2018: Mimecast Limited, a wel-known email and data security company, today announced the general availability its new Web security service.
The Cloud-based service is designed to guard against malicious activity initiated by user action or malware while blocking access to Websites deemed unsafe or inappropriate based on each organization’s policies.
Mimecast Web Security is engineered to be managed with the same administration console that customers use to manage Mimecast’s existing email services. This offers an easy-to-deploy and manage defense against advanced phishing and malware attacks being delivered to employees by both email, web, instant messaging systems, social network sites, and ad networks. During the early adopter program, customers around the world tested the service which is now immediately available globally.
Jamie Fernandes, Director of Product Management for Web security at Mimecast, said, “Commonalities between email and web threat intelligence and detective analytics help improve the security defenses against both vectors whether used by attackers separately or together. The new web security service is designed to allow customers to broaden and improve their protection from attacks occurring via email and the web, using a single integrated service. We’re excited about our ability to significantly expand our customers’ defense systems by extending the power of our Mime|OS threat detection technologies and the global grid powered by 30,000+ customers we’re protecting around the globe.”