Leading Ringwood-based MSP entrustIT has achieved Premier Partner with Mimecast, marking a significant milestone in our security and service-led growth strategy. This elevation reflects sustained investment in cyber resilience, demonstrable customer success, and the technical proficiency required to support organisations that rely heavily on email as a mission-critical communication channel.
Mimecast is a global leader in email and collaboration security. Its platform provides multi-layered protection across inbound and outbound email, including advanced threat detection, impersonation protection, sandboxing, URL and attachment inspection, and automated remediation. In recent years, Mimecast has expanded its portfolio to cover brand protection, awareness training, and security analytics, aligning its offering with the increasingly complex threat landscape organisations now face.
The use cases are broad but share a common thread: mitigating business-disrupting risk. Organisations deploy Mimecast to defend against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware delivered via email vectors, and credential-harvesting attacks. IT teams typically leverage Mimecast to add the modern layers that native email platforms lack, particularly around real-time threat intelligence, user behaviour analytics, and policy-driven data protection. For compliance-driven sectors—legal, financial services, healthcare, and professional services—Mimecast’s continuity and archiving capabilities offer substantial operational benefits. When primary mail platforms go down, Mimecast ensures business-as-usual remains possible, an increasingly important consideration given the frequency of SaaS outages.
The importance of email protection cannot be overstated. Email remains the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. Even as organisations fortify networks and endpoints, attackers continue to exploit human behaviour and communication patterns, where a single misjudged click can lead to significant operational disruption, reputational damage, data loss, or regulatory exposure. Modern email security is no longer about filtering spam; it is about building resilience. This means not only detecting threats but reducing the attack surface, strengthening user awareness, and ensuring continuity when things go wrong. Mimecast’s architecture is built for this reality.
Partnering with a capable Managed Service Provider is the final, often overlooked, component. Best-in-class tools are only as effective as the design, implementation, monitoring, and governance that sit around them. An MSP acts as a strategic extension of an organisation’s IT function, ensuring that controls are correctly configured, updated in line with the evolving threat landscape, and aligned to business objectives. For many SMEs, in-house teams simply do not have the bandwidth or specialist expertise to actively manage a platform as sophisticated as Mimecast. A strong MSP bridges that gap, providing operational oversight, policy optimisation, and a responsive support layer that protects both users and leadership from unnecessary risk.
Achieving Premier Partner status reinforces entrustIT’s commitment to delivering robust, enterprise-grade security outcomes to organisations across the UK. It reflects both the trust placed in us by clients and our ongoing investment in skills, tooling, and service excellence. We look forward to deepening our collaboration with Mimecast and continuing to strengthen the cyber resilience of the businesses we support.