Company type | Privately held[1] |
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ISIN | GB00BYT5JK65 |
Industry | Information security E-mail archiving File archiving Cybersecurity |
Founded | 2003 |
Founders |
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Headquarters | London, England, UK Lexington, Massachusetts,United States[2][3] |
Key people | Peter Bauer (CEO) Neil Murray (CTO) Rafe Brown (CFO) Nathaniel Borenstein (Chief Scientist) Bernd Leger (CMO) Karen Anderson (CHRO) |
Products | Unified Email Management integrating Email Security; Enterprise Information Archiving, Mailbox Continuity and Services for Office 365, Cybersecurity Training, Web Security |
Owner | Permira |
Number of employees | 2,000 ( 2022)[4] |
Website | mimecast |
Mimecast Limited is an[5][6] American–British, Jersey-domiciled company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365,[7] including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail.
Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Munich and Israel.[8] On October 16, 2015, Mimecast announced that it filed its registration statement for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Mimecast began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "MIME" on November 19, 2015. The offering closed on November 24, 2015.
On July 10, 2018, Mimecast acquired cybersecurity training start up Ataata.[9][10]
On July 31, 2018, Mimecast acquired Solebit.[11]
On November 14, 2019, Mimecast acquired DMARC Analyzer.[12]
On January 6, 2020, Mimecast acquired Segasec.[13]
On May 19, 2022, Mimecast was acquired by and become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magnesium Bidco Limited, an affiliate of Permira Holdings Ltd.[14]
Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems.[15] Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions.[16]
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, who was amongst the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.[17]
The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing[18] through geographically dispersed data centers.[19][20] Its Mail Transfer Agent provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.[21]
Email Security
Enterprise Information Archiving
Mailbox Continuity
In January 2021, a Mimecast security certificate was revealed to have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to intercept communications with Microsoft-based email servers.[33][34][35]