Mimecast
Global Secure Systems are an authorised reseller for Mimecast and are the UK's largest privately owned and most experienced IT security organisation.
Our award-winning solutions (including Mimecast) have been helping businesses secure their data and achieve regulatory compliance since the mid-nineties by providing cutting-edge technology alongside accredited consultancy and testing services. GSS has a single aim; information assurance. delivered.
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About Mimecast
Mimecast is a rapidly expanding Software as a Service (SAAS) company providing an online technology platform that radically improves the way companies manage their most important business communication and data.
Because Mimecast offer a new way of doing things that is cheaper, faster, more secure and simply put - more intelligent - they have grown to be a very popular business service on the Internet.
Every day Mimecast takes care of millions of emails and documents for thousands of companies around the world.
Mimecast Products
Mimecast delivers Software-as-a-Service-based enterprise email management for archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented email environments into one holistic solution that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimises risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email.
Mimecast Industry News
More businesses turn to cloud Mimecast survey finds that security is still a barrier Most businesses now use some element of cloud computing according to new research from Mimecast. However, security concerns remain a barrier to adoption, however 57 percent of cloud users say that moving to the technology has actually improved security. According to the Mimecast Cloud Adoption Survey, 51 percent of enterprises have already adopted some form of cloud computing. The survey also found that 66 perce......
[more] Q and A: MIME guru Nathaniel Borenstein on why email isn't dead (or even dying) Almost 20 years ago Nathaniel Borenstein, then working for Bellcore, proposed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) the notion that a new protocol be used to swap multimedia data, rather than just ASCII text, over email. Today, that protocol, MIME, is a bog-standard aspect of the way we communicate and is used across email messages, web pages and operating systems. Now chief scientist at (appropriately enough......
[more] Mimecast offers guaranteed email for BlackBerry users BlackBerry users could benefit from a new service from email management firm Mimecast that claims to be the first to guarantee email availability at all times by hosting messages in the cloud. The firm said that the Mimecast Continuity Service can bypass the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) or Microsoft Exchange during any outages to ensure that messages can always be sent or received."The service works by sending mails directly from......
[more] Cloud computing growing six times faster than traditional IT New research is forecasting continued growth in the cloud computing market - a sector already experiencing more rapid growth than traditional in-house IT. ihotdesk reports that cloud computing is set to become increasingly popular in the coming years, with research firm IDC predicting that the innovation will become a common feature of more firms' IT infrastructures. Chief analyst and senior vice president at IDC, Frank Gens, said: &q......
[more] Mimecast lands double win at TheKnowList Awards 2010 Mimecast, a holistic e-mail management company offering SaaS-based e-mail archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has been recognised for Best Value and Best for Service Excellence by the legal industry at TheKnowList Awards 2010. TheKnowList Best Value Award recognises a solution that presents genuine all-round value to customers in terms of efficiency, cost savings, reputation or client service.
Mimecast was selected based on th......
[more] Royal Albert Hall gives email ovation As one of London’s top concert venues, the Royal Albert Hall entertains over a million people each year. But even without an audience, the RAH is open 24 hours a day, 364 days a year (it is only closed on Christmas day), leaving the IT department to support hundreds of on-site and remote staff all year round. The RAH receives almost 4,000 emails every day from promoters representing world famous artists, customers with queries, families and students request......
[more] Case study: The Salvation Army wins the fight against spam The Salvation Army has turned to a cloud-based security service to tackle the problems caused by the fact that 90 per cent of its inbound email was spam. The charity opted for a hosted application from supplier Mimecast to support the London headquarters of its UK and Republic of Ireland arm, and the 18 divisions that make up the organisation.
The Salvation Army's IT resources were coming under tremendous strain trying to process 3,000......
[more] Forget spam - tackle e-mail holistically When your mission is to be the pre-eminent empowerment stockbroker on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), but you need relocate your premises, move to a new Internet service provider, figure out how to provide business continuity while being plagued by the nuisances of spam and viruses, you need to look at innovative software as a service (SaaS) solutions to make it happen. Unified E-mail Management (UEM) to solve the company's spam and e-mail headach......
[more] Lights may go out, but e-mail stays on for CLM Small businesses are having a rough ride. On top of global business threats such as the skills shortage, the recession and increasing costs, there are South Africa-specific issues like the ever-present threat of Eskom power outages and the very real and continued problem of Telkom cable theft. CLM is a small/medium business (SME) that provides the construction industry with positioning productivity solutions such as laser machine control systems th......
[more] Mimecast and file server destruction Mimecast is a UK-based supplier of unified email management services. Around the end of 2002 it started to build an appliance function that would unify the many daisy-chained email functions, (anti-spam, anti-virus, data leak prevention, signaturing) that were all implemented as separate boxes through which emails had to flow before ending up in peoples' inboxes. How it has done this and what it means leads logically through cloud file storage (CFS) to a dead......
[more] Rockline Implements Mimecast's SaaS-based E-mail Management Platform While e-mail has become the primary communication and collaborative platform at many organizations, the holistic e-mail management approach is just now moving into the forefront. Because organizations are increasingly swamped from various policy, regulatory, continuity and security requirements, the demand to manage these aspects can be high. With these factors firmly in mind, paper products manufacturer Rockline Industries to......
[more] Lessons from the snow Heavy snow fall across Britain has highlighted weaknesses in UK’s digital infrastructure planning, just as clearly as it revealed the failure of the country’s physical infrastructure to cope. The snow brought chaos to roads, railways and airports, closing thousands of schools and businesses. London's almost entire bus network was suspended and 10 of the 11 underground lines were either down or part suspended. But the heaviest snow fall in 18 years has also shown how IT sy......
[more] Global Secure Systems supplies security tools (including Mimecast) to protect both the corporate gateway (particularly the Internet, or other external network connections), and the individual PC (including the roaming laptop user and the desktop attached to the corporate network).
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