Mimecast

Mimecast is a cybersecurity company that sells a cloud-based, AI-powered platform for human risk management and email security. The platform covers email, collaboration tools, insider risk and compliance, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to defend against cyber threats. Email security was the company's founding product; the Mimecast Human Risk Management Platform now integrates that with insider risk management and compliance management capabilities.

Founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray to address a gap in cybersecurity, Mimecast employs more than 2,000 people across 13 office locations worldwide. Its platform protects over 42,000 organizations globally. Technical work spans cybersecurity, email security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, human risk management, insider risk management, cloud security, compliance technology and collaboration tool security.

The company's stated approach rests on the view that people are both the greatest vulnerability and the most critical asset in modern cybersecurity, and it describes its work as innovating at the intersection of technology and human behavior. Mimecast operates in the cybersecurity, email and collaboration security, human risk management and compliance sectors.