{"id":422012,"date":"2020-08-03T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=422012"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:34:08","slug":"mimecast-acquires-messagecontrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/422012\/mimecast-acquires-messagecontrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimecast acquires MessageControl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimecast.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_content=03_August_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mimecast Limited<\/strong><\/a>, a leading email and data security company, today announced it has acquired eTorch Inc. (d\/b\/a MessageControl), a messaging security provider with solutions designed to help stop social engineering and human identity attacks with the use of machine learning technology.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of MessageControl strengthens Mimecast\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimecast.com\/resources\/press-releases\/Dates\/2019\/10\/future-of-email-security\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_content=03_August_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Email Security 3.0 strategy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that is designed\u00a0to improve cybersecurity at the email perimeter, inside the organisation and beyond the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful combination of Mimecast and MessageControl is engineered to provide customers using productivity apps, such as Microsoft 365, even stronger protection against advanced phishing and impersonation attacks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimecast.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_content=03_August_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more information from Mimecast.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, it is designed to prevent the inadvertent loss of sensitive and confidential data, while also serving as an additional sensor to further enrich Mimecast\u2019s threat intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of MessageControl brings the following key capabilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Machine learning identification of anomalous behaviours <\/strong>&#8211; MessageControl\u2019s graph technology is engineered to inspect email attributes and content and then apply machine learning to build a library of known and unknown patterns for an individual user. The technology is designed to get smarter over time and has the ability to make real time decisions on 1 billion plus unique user behaviour data points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contextual, real-time warnings in email <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0MessageControl empowers employees to help make better choices by providing them with more intelligent, contextual, and dynamic warnings of potentially untrusted senders or content into emails<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ability to prevent misaddressed email data leaks <\/strong>&#8211; Leveraging the graph technology, MessageControl is built to notify employees before they accidentally send information to the wrong recipients by using historical sending patterns to predict future anomalies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe first half of 2020 has been unlike anything we\u2019ve experienced before. It\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that better innovation is required to protect against the latest weaponised and unweaponised attacks,\u201d said Peter Bauer, chief executive officer at Mimecast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessageControl is a natural complement to Mimecast\u2019s suite of cyber resilience solutions \u2013 from email and web security through brand protection, security awareness training, and data protection. Its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities will offer additional layers of defence by evolving and \u2018learning\u2019 the customer environment and user behaviours over time.\u00a0 We believe this acquisition allows Mimecast to continue to evolve our Email Security 3.0 strategy and provide the best protection for productivity cloud applications like Microsoft 365.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimecast.com\/resources\/ebooks\/Dates\/2020\/7\/the-state-of-email-security-report\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_content=03_August_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Recent research from Mimecast<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0found that impersonation fraud, phishing, and internal threats or data leaks are all on the rise \u2013 with South African IT and security leaders responding that they\u2019ve seen the volume of each increase (46%, 53% and 35% respectively) over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>MessageControl\u2019s innovative machine learning is engineered to reveal the hidden risks of email communications by inserting real-time warnings into anomalous emails to help prevent advanced phishing and impersonation attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMimecast\u2019s portfolio of solutions offers MessageControl the opportunity to expand its reach to protect even more organisations against the advanced threats plaguing the market today,\u201d said Paul Everton, founder and chief technology officer, MessageControl. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to join the Mimecast team as we continue on our mission to stop social engineering and human identity attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Financial Impact<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The acquisition of MessageControl is not expected to have a material financial impact to Mimecast\u2019s Fiscal 2021 Revenue or Adjusted EBITDA.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Mimecast &#8211; Relentless protection. Resilient world.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together.<\/p>\n<p>We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector \u2013 email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organisations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimecast.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_content=03_August_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>mimecast.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquisition bolsters machine learning and graph technology to increase efficacy in the fight against advanced phishing and impersonation attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":422166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[11528],"class_list":["post-422012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-mimecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422018,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422012\/revisions\/422018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}