Mimecast Protects the Inbox. Breaches Don't Stop at the Inbox.
Mimecast is a gateway bolted onto the cloud. Material is built for it. If your organization runs Google Workspace, you deserve security that works with your environment. Not against it.
Every day you run Mimecast on Google Workspace, you're paying for a tool that:
- Breaks the protections you already have. Rerouting mail through a third-party gateway disables Google's native threat detection the very controls your license pays for.
- Hands one vendor a single point of failure. Every email your company sends or receives flows through Mimecast's infrastructure. That's not defense-in-depth. That's a liability with a logo on it.
- Burns your team on overhead, not outcomes. Gateway models need a dedicated admin to clear queues, tune rules, and chase false positives. That's not security work. That's maintenance.
- Is completely blind to your fastest-growing risk surface. Your employees are connecting AI tools to Google Workspace right now with OAuth permissions that grant read/write access to years of email in under 30 seconds. Mimecast can't see any of it.
Material doesn't reroute your mail. It doesn't fight your cloud environment. It connects via API in under ten minutes and starts protecting what Mimecast was never designed to cover.
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Why Security Teams Replace Mimecast with Material
You Get Deployment That Takes Minutes, Not Weeks
Material connects to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 via API. No DNS changes. No MX record rewrites. No traffic rerouting. Setup takes less than ten minutes and you're in immediate read-write contact with email, data, and identity without touching your mail flow or disabling anything Google already does well.
Mimecast requires you to redirect your MX records through their infrastructure before you see a single detection. That means weeks of change management, a dedicated admin to maintain it, and a permanent dependency on a third-party for every email your organization ever sends or receives.
You Get Security That Reduces Work, Not Creates It
Material runs on autopilot. No quarantine queues to clear. No daily rule tuning. No end-user release requests clogging your inbox. Phishing, posture, DLP, OAuth grant management, and incident response, all in a single console, not a stack of bolt-on modules.
Mimecast's entire operating model is built around a quarantine. That means someone on your team is reviewing queues, adjusting policies for false positives, and fielding tickets every time a legitimate vendor email gets held. That's not security operations. That's a help desk.
You Get Eyes on the Threat Surface Mimecast Can't See
While Mimecast watches the front door, dozens of unvetted apps are walking in through the window.
Your employees are connecting AI tools to Google Workspace right now. Each OAuth connection is a potential data pipeline out of your organization accessing Gmail, Drive, Contacts, and Calendars with permissions most security teams never reviewed, approved, or even know exist. One employee. Thirty seconds. Read/write access to years of corporate email history.
Mimecast has zero visibility here. Material gives you a complete inventory of every third-party app connected to your environment, the exact permissions each one holds, and the ability to revoke access automatically or on demand. When a new AI tool shows up in your environment, you'll know about it before it becomes a breach vector.
You Get Protection That Doesn't Stop at Delivery
Mimecast gets one chance: catch the threat before it lands in the inbox. If something slips through or if an attacker is already inside, there's no second line of defense.
Material operates across the full attack timeline. Post-delivery remediation lets you pull malicious messages out of inboxes after the fact. Account takeover controls detect suspicious behavior and contain it before an attacker can establish a foothold, move laterally, or exfiltrate data. It's not just email security. It's cloud workspace security and there's a meaningful difference.
Why do security teams choose Material Security?
It’s simple: it provides protection beyond just email at a better value.
Email Security
Material runs on auto-pilot to remediate sophisticated email attacks that bypass traditional controls—without disrupting operations or wasting resources managing rulesets
Data Security
Understand where sensitive data exists, if it is exposed, and reduce the risk. Material detects sensitive content in files and automatically remediates excessive permissions and inappropriate sharing.
Identity Security
Detect account takeovers, contain their impact, and proactively harden your accounts. Material prevents attackers from establishing their presence, moving laterally, and exfiltrating sensitive data.
Check your Workspace security posture now
Material’s scorecard evaluates your approach to email, file, and account security, providing actionable recommendations to improve your security today. Stop guessing and evaluate now.
