Mimecast Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

Gartner has just published its Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms, reflecting the evolving needs of the market and emphasizing comprehensive solutions that go beyond providing a secure email gateway to delivering an email security platform.

This is driving vendors to expand their offerings beyond traditional gateway models, focusing on holistic email security strategies, aligning with the growing adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and the demand for integrated, scalable solutions.

This report from Gartner discusses solution providers, offering detailed analysis to help buyers evaluate and select the right solution for their needs.

Mimecast Recognized as a Leader

Mimecast has been recognized as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms, which we believe supports our position as a trusted provider of collaboration security solutions and our alignment with the broader vision of human risk management.

The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed our overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The company feels that this recognition validates Mimecast’s sustained innovation through acquisitions.

We believe Mimecast’s strengths and focus on human risk mitigation differentiate us from competitors. Mimecast remains well-positioned to be a market leader with our innovative approach and commitment to customer success. We feel This report reinforces Mimecast’s role as a reliable partner in addressing email and other collaboration tool security challenges.

What This Means for Mimecast

We believe our placement as a Leader on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms is a testament to our hard work in developing additional deployment methodologies such as our Cloud Integrated product, while ensuring the highest levels of protection for our customers as the threat landscape evolves with advanced business email compromise solutions and continued threat intelligence reporting.

The company believes this recognition confirms that our product strategy aligns with the market needs of platform solutions vs. traditional SEGs and key analyst perspectives. Our acquisitions of Elevate Security, Aware, and Code42 have been instrumental in strengthening our market position.

What This Means for Customers

Our acquisition of Elevate Security for human risk management and Code42 for insider risk are integral parts of our journey towards our new north star of human risk management. We believe Mimecast’s product portfolio, which includes both of our email security deployment methods, Cloud Gateway and Cloud Integrated, can support a board range of organizations.

Our sales strategy focuses on aligning packaging configurations with customer needs and strengthening VAR partnerships to drive long-term customer engagement. Supported by our well-resourced global operations, including above-average staffing in technical support, as well as our 4.5 rating based on 543 reviews as of 23 December 2024 in Gartner Peer Insights™, product management, and analytics, as well as regionally aligned infrastructure and broad language support, we are uniquely positioned to provide high-quality, localized service to a diverse global customer base.

Read the Report

View a copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms to learn more.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms, By Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, Franz Hinner, Deepak Mishra, 16 December 2024

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