CORRECTING and REPLACING Mimecast Releases CSA STAR Registry Entry
March 15 2012 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
The headline should read: Mimecast Releases CSA
STAR Registry Entry (sted Mimecast Releases CSA STAR-Compliant
Security Controls)
The corrected release reads:
MIMECAST RELEASES CSA STAR REGISTRY
ENTRY
Cloud Services Provider Leads the Charge on
Security Transparency
Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,
continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365,
today announced that it has published its security controls in
response to the standards set by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR). STAR encourages
companies to post self assessments of their cloud services to
prompt informed purchasing decisions. To date, Mimecast is one of
only three industry-leading companies to have provided access to
their security controls, the others being Microsoft and
Solutionary.
There has been a growing call to action for cloud security
transparency, and although many companies are engaging with the CSA
and STAR, and filling out the requested information, they are
reluctant to publish their own controls. This severely limits
customers’ ability to make informed choices about their cloud
security services, and impedes vendor accountability for offering
apples-to-apples capability comparisons.
Three key trends that are driving Mimecast’s approach to
security, as well as its desire to provide transparency into its
security controls, are:
- Email security market consolidation
- The market has consolidated rapidly,
leaving a few key cloud vendors. As a result, many IT departments
are migrating their on-premise gateways toward cloud-based security
vendors such as Mimecast as the cloud evolves beyond a trusted
source into a business asset.
- Affordability
- Economies of scale that cloud solutions
offer enables IT departments to deliver levels of protection,
privacy and uptime more affordably than with on-premise solutions.
IT departments can now affordably centralize data and services into
meaningful, secure and accessible platforms that benefit the
business.
- Enhanced IT performance
- The cloud also drives enhanced
performance from an IT delivery perspective. Such high standards
and SLAs offered by cloud vendors are now driven by recognized
standards bodies like the CSA. This means that IT departments can
stop fire-fighting and at last rely on trusted and reputable cloud
sources for data services. Given that most businesses are short on
IT resources, the cloud enables them to do more with less.
“At the end of the day, we have a responsibility to our current
and future customers to be completely transparent about what we’re
offering and why,” said Orlando Scott-Cowley, product marketing
manager at Mimecast. “We should be able to point out exactly how we
stack up against other offerings, rather than treating our controls
as proprietary, and encourage all cloud security vendors to do the
same. It’s the only way to perpetuate integrity, effectiveness and
performance throughout the industry.”
For more information on Mimecast’s security offerings, please
visit:
http://www.mimecast.com/What-we-offer/Email-Security/secure-email-gateway/.
About Mimecast
Mimecast (www.mimecast.com) delivers cloud-based email
management for Microsoft Exchange, including archiving, continuity
and security. By unifying disparate and fragmented email
environments into one holistic solution that is always available
from the cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and
complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email.
Founded in the United Kingdom in 2003, Mimecast serves more than
5,000 customers worldwide and has offices in Europe, North America,
Africa and the Channel Islands.