About the Integration
Discern Security leverages AI to maximize the utilization of customers' Mimecast subscriptions. It helps activate previously unused security controls and optimize the existing ones. Additionally, it maps customers' security controls to various frameworks like MITRE and CIS. Leveraging Mimecast's data, Discern identifies high-risk users and adjusts controls accordingly. Our platform also analyzes coverage gaps and provides targeted remediation roadmaps.
Upon integration with Mimecast and other security tools, Discern Security's platform helps customers build a robust cybersecurity mesh, fostering the attainment of key objectives:
- Enhanced Security Controls: Clients receive scorecards and recommendations to fortify top security controls, ensuring robust defense mechanisms against email-related threats.
- Framework Alignment: Seamless mapping of controls with the MITRE framework facilitates precise progress tracking, promoting adherence to industry standards and compliance regulations.
- Optimized Email Security: Intelligent integration with complementary solutions like CASB and EDR enables the optimization of email security measures, maximizing protection and enhancing threat detection capabilities.
- Automated Policy Enforcement: The implementation of closed-loop automation for email security policies strengthens posture and facilitates agile responses to emerging threats.
- Comprehensive Reporting: Development of CISO dashboards offers succinct illustrations of achieved protection through Mimecast, alongside the overall progress of security programs. This empowers leadership with actionable insights and clear visibility into security effectiveness.
- Identification of top risky users in the organization: Identification of top targeted email IDs, users with risky behaviors, users with gaps in password policies, users lacking MFA protection, etc.
Benefits
- Get scorecards and recommendations for hardening top security controls
- Eliminate the need to hire expensive security experts for controls management
- Map controls to MITRE/CIS framework and show progress in terms of controls
- Cross-optimize your email security controls with CASB, EDR, etc.
- Closed loop policy automation for stronger email security posture
- Build CISO dashboards showcasing protection achieved through Mimecast
How does Discern Security Work with Mimecast
- Through this integration, Discern's platform seamlessly accesses critical data, including user information, internal domains, email threat logs, and suspicious emails via the Mimecast API.
- Administrators can also upload Mimecast policies as CSV files.
- The acquired data undergoes thorough analysis by the Discern AiPM engine, generating valuable insights, configuration scorecards, detailed recommendations, and remediation workflows.
- These outcomes not only fortify the organization's email security posture but also optimize controls and configurations across its security tools ecosystem.
- Discern Security's platform ingests Mimecast data to inform policies in other security tools
- The insights from the integration is used to build dashboards for the CISO on the progress their security program is making and to benchmark their security program with peers
Business use cases and outcomes
- Make full use of a customer's investment in Mimecast – Visualize, prioritize, and remediate Mimecast configuration risks
- Identify Risky Users and Assets – Utilize Mimecast insights to spot risky users, assets, patterns
- Map Controls to MITRE – Visualize progress on security programs with controls mapped to MITRE
- Adjust Risk and Policy Settings – Use Mimecast data to adjust risk settings in Endpoint, Identity, SASE and use Mimecast insights to drive policy settings on other security tools
- Overall cybersecurity dashboarding – Get a single pane of glass view of your overall security health, including user and device risks, gaps in controls and coverage, and step-by-step remediations
About Discern Security
Discern is an automated and rapid Proactive Defense/Control Management, Dashboarding, and Asset management platform. The vast majority of organizations (Ranging from SMBs to large enterprises) do not make effective and optimized use of their main security tools. Discern's platform helps CISOs and security teams visualize, auto assess, deploy and optimize these tools against the risks that each customer faces (Including functional, individual risks specific to the organization). By integrating with leading security platforms, Discern Security enables organizations to get more value out of their existing security stack, close coverage gaps, identify risky users and assets, and increase their overall security maturity.
