Why Choose IRONSCALES over Mimecast

Choosing the right email and messaging security platform is foundational to the protection of your organization. This page compares two of the top-rated email security platforms — IRONSCALES and Mimecast — to help you choose the platform that’s right for you.
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IRONSCALES provides a self-learning, AI-driven email security platform that continuously detects and remediates advanced threats like BEC, credential harvesting, ATO, and more, in milliseconds. The platform also incorporates employees into the organization’s fight against phishing with integrated email alert banners, report buttons, personalized phishing simulation testing, and advanced security awareness training (SAT).
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For two decades, Mimecast has created a legacy by providing businesses with reliable and comprehensive security solutions to protect their data and networks. Their products have been trusted by enterprises around the globe for preventing a wide range of cyberattacks, namely SPAM and malicious content.

Adapting to an Evolving Email Security Landscape

Email security has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Basic protocols like authentication and signature-based secure email gateways (SEGs) used to be enough—but they can't keep up with the new tactics attackers use.

 

Now email security needs to address "malicious intent" like social engineering, and actively protect at the mailbox level. Solutions now use AI, machine learning, and automation, as well as human insights, to fight advanced threats like business email compromise, account takeover, and VIP impersonation.

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How are IRONSCALES and Mimecast Different? 

IRONSCALES and Mimecast use very different methods to securing an organization’s email environment. 

 

  • Deployment and Integration Differences:

❌ Mimecast primarily utilizes a Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that requires MX record changes, positioning itself between your email provider and users. This setup can be complex and may necessitate significant changes to your email infrastructure.

✔ IRONSCALES uses an API-based solution that seamlessly integrates with cloud email providers like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. This approach allows for rapid deployment without altering MX records, minimizing disruption and ensuring a smoother implementation process. 

 

  • Threat Detection & Response:

❌ Mimecast employs traditional threat detection methods, focusing on predefined rules, signatures, and static analysis to identify threats. While effective against established known threats, this approach may face challenges in identifying novel, sophisticated attacks.

 

✔ IRONSCALES uses Adaptive AI and crowdsourced threat intelligence to detect and remediate threats in real time, providing full visibility into attack campaigns, indicators of compromise, and emerging phishing tactics.

 

  • Threat Intelligence Approaches:

❌ Mimecast maintains a proprietary threat intelligence database, updating defenses based on internal research and analyses.

 

✔ IRONSCALES utilizes a crowdsourced threat intelligence model, drawing insights from a global community of over 25,000 security professionals. This collective intelligence accelerates the identification of zero-day threats and enhances the platform's adaptive learning capabilities.

 

  • Bottom line: Mimecast's traditional security approaches react to known threats, while IRONSCALES' Adaptive AI proactively evolves to stop emerging attacks before they spread.

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Why IRONSCALES?

Our platform protects your employee's inboxes from advanced phishing attacks that others miss, with the only technology that combines AI and human insights. Our platform is quick to deploy and  dead simple to manage (so you get instant protection).

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Advanced Threat Protection

Protect Better
Block advanced phishing and BEC attacks (and never seen before threats) with our Adaptive AI—dynamically sharpened by real-world user insights and a community of over 20,000 IRONSCALES threat hunters.
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SOC Automation

Simplify Operations
Slash the time your team spends remediating email incidents from 30 minutes per incident to 30 seconds. Our Adaptive AI scans every email for malicious indicators. When it finds a threat, it doesn’t just block it, it automatically finds and remediates all others like it in your environment.
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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING

Empower your Org

Triple the email security awareness of your workforce and transform your employees into a crucial line of phishing defense. We make it dead simple to sharpen your employees' understanding of real-world threats with:

  • Phishing simulation testing
  • Security awareness training (SAT)
  • Dynamic email banners

...and a GPT-powered chat assistant

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Case Studies

"The ability to provide real-time feedback on both positive and negative performance has proven very effective. It’s a wake-up call for our employees.”
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