Mimecast in the news

The article evaluates Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, and Mimecast, three leading email security platforms, comparing their distinct architectures, pricing models, and effectiveness against modern threats like business email compromise.

Mimecast's new CEO plans to expand beyond email security into securing AI and data, emphasizing channel partners to combat shadow AI with a new Agent Risk Center.

Mimecast has launched Agent Risk Center to manage AI agents and Managed Threat Response to enhance email security through AI and human expertise.

Mimecast UK's employee count is projected to decrease by 11.5% to 2,817 by March 2026.

Mimecast appointed Ranjan Singh as CEO to lead its next growth phase in securing humans, data, and AI.

Ranjan Singh has been appointed CEO of Mimecast to lead its next phase of AI-driven growth and platform expansion for cybersecurity.

Mimecast's report highlights a significant surge in AI-augmented phishing and ClickFix attacks in 2025, with cybercriminals increasingly exploiting trusted services and human vulnerabilities across multiple channels.

Mimecast partnered with Coursera to enhance its global workforce's AI and digital skills, addressing internal feedback about learning resource inconsistencies and the risk of skill obsolescence.

Mimecast's Rob Juncker discusses the security challenges posed by rapid AI adoption, shadow AI, and human behavior, emphasizing the need for adaptive security architectures.

Mimecast's CEO Marc van Zadelhoff highlights human risk as the critical eighth layer of cybersecurity, driven by malicious insiders, and details their unified platform that uses AI and real-time training to manage these threats.

Mimecast appointed Jon Francis as UKI channel director and has made several other executive leadership changes throughout 2025.