Dark Reading: Mimecast Joins Human Risk Management Fray With Code42 Deal

Mimecast CEO Marc van Zadelhoff tells Dark Reading that the plan was to leverage that capability to emphasize Mimecast's human risk detection and management capabilities.

"We had been talking to Code42 for a while, and we did the partnership," van Zadelhoff says. "One thing led to another in terms of strengthening it."

Van Zadelhoff says the two acquisitions mark the company's entry into HRM.

"The partnership exposed to us that we had a lot of joint customer interest," he says. "In fact, during that time, we saw an increasing number of our customers adopt Code42 in a fairly short amount of time. As we started leveraging the human risk dashboard and the human risk platform, we started to see that when you add Code42 into the score, it really adds a lot of value on identifying the riskiest segment of the population out there.