The Record - Issue 19: Winter 2020

V I EWPO I NT 55 T oday’s remote work landscape has created challenges for the protection, monitor- ing and regulation of an organisation’s data. From home, employees access data on a variety of devices and applications to stay con- nected. The informality of working from home can also translate into more lax cybersecurity maintenance. As a result, data is more scattered. Mimecast Cloud Archive (MCA) can help tackle this challenge both during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Undoubtedly, Microsoft 365 is the backbone of business communications and productiv- ity worldwide. Mimecast’s 2020 State of Email Security Report found that 96 per cent of busi- nesses choose Microsoft as their email provider, though 65 per cent of these businesses have already added or are in the process of adding extra layers of continuity and cyber resilience to enhance their existing suite. Mimecast Enterprise Information Cloud Archiving, a six- year-run- ning leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving, complements organisations’ Microsoft foundation by helping with key features such as data migration. Enterprises migrating data from legacy plat- forms to best-of-breed cloud archiving face several challenges with cost, time and complex- ity. As a result, they struggle to access the value of modern cloud initiatives and choose inac- tion instead of embarking on a migration path towards Mimecast. Mimecast Simply Migrate, integrated into the MCA, provides frictionless, cost-effective migra- tion with increased speed, flexible cost models to reduce capital expenditures, visibility and reporting of the migration process, and flexi- bility to work with third-party connectors. The result is alignment with your regulatory com- pliance requirements, support for rapid e- dis- covery, and flexible retention management for managing corporate information. In addition to state-of-the-art migration capa- bilities, MCA enables businesses to respond accurately, efficiently and with confidence to legal and regulatory investigations, from General Data Protection Regulation compli- ance to internal audits and other queries. Our governance and compliance toolkit comes equipped with advanced search for relia- ble e-discovery, early case assessment tools, advanced legal hold review, and supervision and reporting capabilities that improve visibil- ity and ensure compliance. MCA is an essential companion to Microsoft 365, providing relentless protection with smarter security, critical data protection and resilient communication. Garth Landers is the director of product marketing and archiving at Mimecast Enhancing data protection Mimecast Cloud Archive is helping Microsoft 365 customers add a new level of security to their business communications and productivity GAR TH L ANDE R S : M I ME CA S T “MCA enables businesses to respond accurately, efficiently and with confidence”