MIME 2017 Annual Report

3 • Traditional email security, continuity and archiving alternatives can be inadequate and may not address increasing customer requirements and protect against next generation security threats; • Point products are inflexible and only address part of the problem; and • Traditional on-premises or hosted architectures have performance limitations and are expensive. The limitations of traditional security and archiving technologies mean customers need to rethink their approach to protecting email and corporate information. We believe organizations are ultimately looking to implement a multi-layered cyber security and resilience strategy that delivers protection of users, data and operations from the risks arising from technological failure, human error and malicious intent. The risks also increase with organizations migrating to Microsoft Office 365 ® , as it is a complex email solution that is a high value and high-profile target. Organizations also need robust continuity options to solve for unpredictable events that cause an outage to email and result in disruption to business. A multi-layered cyber security and resilience approach is needed in order to address the diverse threats and diverse data classifications within a single data environment. Meeting this growing customer demand requires an email and data security cloud service that meets the following requirements: • Integrated Offering . By bringing multiple requirements into a cyber resilience solution for data and email platform, our next-generation email service helps organizations reduce the complexity and cost of managing point technologies from disparate vendors and brings additional benefits from new capabilities made possible due to the platform, and cloud delivery. • Strong Technology . As organizations substitute specialized products provided by different vendors, it is imperative that the individual products are as good, or better, than those being replaced. Organizations are not willing to compromise on performance or security at a product level. • Native Cloud . As organizations shift workloads to the cloud and move away from retaining on-premises or single tenant hosted cloud infrastructure, today’s email security and information management technology must be natively cloud-based, thereby eliminating the need for local software and hardware, virtual machines and device hosting. • Built-for-Scale . As email traffic and data storage continues to increase dramatically, the risk of threats escalates and the need for real-time, on-demand email access becomes more prominent, organizations cannot compromise on email performance and availability. The ideal solution must be easily scalable to match customer demand and be able to handle large volumes. • Easy-to-Deploy and Manage . A cloud platform should simplify the process of service updates, new product deployments and on-boarding. System improvements should also be handled centrally, reducing this burden for the customers’ own IT team. A fully-integrated service also means it should be managed from a single administration console. • Adaptable to Customer Needs. With the rapidly shifting threat landscape and other IT requirements, customers’ email needs are continuously evolving. It is important that email and information management solutions adapt quickly to help organizations keep pace with changing risks and enhance productivity. • Lower Total Cost of Ownership . The most-effective approach for corporate email security, continuity, archiving and data management is to solve the current problems of integration, performance and scalability while simplifying the IT email infrastructure and reducing the initial capital outlay, recurring maintenance costs and growing storage costs that many companies face as their volumes scale.