Mimecast Southern Nevada Health District & Mimecast Internal Email Protect

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Southern Nevada Health District & Mimecast Internal Email Protect

Introduction

This case study of Southern Nevada Health District is based on a January 2019 survey of Mimecast customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Mimecast:

Their primary reason for deploying Mimecast’s Targeted Threat Protection – Internal Email Protect was because they had incidents where their employees were sending sensitive data via email in violation of organizational policy or causing a data breach.
In the last 12 months, they confirmed that they have experienced security incidents caused by the actions of careless users who had inappropriately shared via email sensitive data or violated their organization’s security policies.
In the last 12 months, they confirmed that they have been hit by an attack where malicious activity was spread from one infected user to another employee via email.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Mimecast that the surveyed organization uses:

Currently has 0 personnel whose primary job function is IT security.
Out of their organization’s overall email traffic, they estimate internally generated email (internal to internal and internal to external) accounts for 26-50%.
They have encountered threats caused by attackers infiltrating and compromising their users’ email accounts.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Mimecast:

They would strongly agree that they would recommend Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection – Internal Email Protect to their peers.
They would disagree that the email security provided by Microsoft Office 365 on its own (whether you are using it or not) is sufficient.

About Mimecast

Mimecast is a cybersecurity provider that helps thousands of organizations worldwide make email safer, restore trust and bolster cyber resilience. Mimecast’s expanded cloud suite enables organizations to implement a comprehensive cyber resilience strategy. From email and web security, awareness training, data protection, to uptime assurance and more, Mimecast helps organizations stand strong in the face of cyberattacks, human error and technical failure.

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