Mimecast Collaboration Security
Secure the front door. Email is where most attacks arrive — Mimecast extends email-grade protection to Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive — closing the blind spot threats use when they skip the email gateway.
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The Mimecast platform family
This page covers Collaboration Security — the Teams/SharePoint layer. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Mimecast Collaboration Security — Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive
- Vendor
- Mimecast (founded 2003 · London HQ · Permira-owned)
- The surface
- Microsoft Teams, OneDrive & SharePoint
- Stops
- Malicious files, URLs & malware in collaboration
- The gap it closes
- Threats that skip the email gateway
- Detection
- Mimecast's email-grade threat detection, applied to chat/files
- Part of
- The Human Risk Management platform
- Best with
- Advanced Email Security (same platform)
- Licensing
- Per user — add-on to the platform
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand cybersecurity before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is collaboration security?
Threat protection for the collaboration surface — Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive — scanning messages and files for malware and malicious links.
Mimecast’s email-grade detection, extended to the channels work moved into.
Unprotected estate vs modern security — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Unprotected / signature email | Collaboration Security (Mimecast) |
|---|---|---|
| The surface | Only email inspected | Teams, SharePoint & OneDrive too |
| Internal threats | Shared in Teams, invisible | Scanned and caught |
| File stores | Malware sits in SharePoint | Detected before it spreads |
| Detection | Email-only engine | Email-grade, on collaboration |
| The blind spot | Post-email surface unprotected | Closed |
| Management | A separate collaboration tool | One Mimecast platform |
| The context | Siloed alert | Connected human-risk view |
| Governance | No collaboration compliance | Extends via Aware |
Pairs with Advanced Email Security — the two surfaces people use most, protected together. Extend to Aware for governance.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Teams Protection
Scans messages and shared content in Microsoft Teams — the malicious link or file dropped in a channel, caught before a colleague clicks it.
SharePoint & OneDrive
Scans files in SharePoint and OneDrive for malware — the payload sitting in a shared library, detected rather than left to spread.
Email-Grade Detection
Applies the same threat detection Mimecast built for email — URL and file analysis, malware detection — to the collaboration surface.
Post-Email Coverage
Catches threats that never touch the email gateway — shared internally in Teams or a file store, they would otherwise be invisible.
HRM Platform
Part of the Human Risk Management platform — a risky collaboration action connects to email, training and insider-risk in one view.
One email-grade detection engine extended to Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive — threats caught where the gateway never looks.
Twelve capabilities. Detect, remediate, connect.
Mimecast extends protection to the collaboration surface — email-grade detection on Teams and SharePoint, part of the Mimecast portfolio.
Microsoft Teams Protection
Scans Teams messages and shared content for malicious links and files — the threat dropped in a channel, caught.
SharePoint Scanning
Scans SharePoint libraries for malware — the malicious file sitting in a shared site, detected before it spreads.
OneDrive Scanning
Scans OneDrive files for malicious content — personal cloud storage brought into the security picture.
Malicious-Link Detection
Detects malicious URLs shared in collaboration — the same link analysis Mimecast applies to email, on chat and files.
File Malware Detection
Analyses shared files for malware — the payload that skipped the email gateway, caught on the collaboration surface.
Automated Remediation
Removes or quarantines malicious content found in collaboration — the threat neutralised, not just flagged.
Closes the Post-Email Gap
Threats shared internally in Teams or a file store never touch the email gateway — this closes that blind spot.
Unified Management
Managed alongside email in the Mimecast platform — collaboration security in the same picture, not a separate tool.
Human Risk Signals
Feeds the Human Risk Management platform — a risky collaboration action connected to email, training and insider risk.
Pairs with Email Security
Extends the same protection from email to collaboration — the two surfaces employees use most, covered together.
Microsoft 365 Native
Built for the Microsoft 365 collaboration stack — Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, where the work actually happens.
Aware Governance Option
Extends with Aware for collaboration governance and compliance — data loss, records and conduct across the same channels.
Watch Collaboration Security in action
The overview, getting started, and protecting M365 email.
Demo of Mimecast's Protection for Microsoft Teams
Collaboration threat protection for Teams, demonstrated.
M365 Admin recommends Mimecast Cloud Integrated
A Microsoft 365 admin on Cloud Integrated, the M365 email protection this extends from.
Mimecast's Human Risk Command Center
The platform this collaboration protection connects into.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Mimecast’s collaboration protection apart.
Work moved past email — attacks followed
Employees spend as much time in Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive as in email, and attackers know it: a malicious link in a channel or malware in a library never touches the email gateway. Security that only inspects email leaves that surface blind. Collaboration Security closes the gap.
Email-grade detection, on collaboration
Collaboration Security applies the URL analysis and file and malware detection Mimecast built over two decades for email to content in Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. A malicious link or file shared there is analysed the same way as one arriving by email, to the same standard.
One picture across the channels people use
As part of Mimecast’s Human Risk Management platform, a risky action in Teams or SharePoint connects to the user’s email behaviour, awareness-training status and insider-risk signals, giving one view of human risk across the channels employees actually use.
Best paired with email security
Paired with Mimecast Advanced Email Security, the two surfaces employees use most — email and collaboration — share the same detection, management and human-risk view. For Microsoft 365 organisations, that covers the channels where most user-facing threats now arrive.
Extends to governance with Aware
For organisations needing more than threat protection on collaboration — DLP, records retention, conduct and compliance supervision across Teams and other channels — Mimecast Aware adds governance on the same surface, from the same platform, which suits regulated industries.
The honest scope
Collaboration Security extends email-grade protection to the M365 collaboration stack, best if you already use Mimecast for email. Microsoft Defender covers Teams and SharePoint natively for E5 estates, and specialist tools exist. Mimecast’s edge is one human-risk view across email and collaboration.
The numbers behind the platform
What your collaboration-security journey looks like
Collaboration-risk scoping
Your Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive usage, current email security, and whether you need Aware. TechBag scopes it free.
Collaboration protection live
Connected to your M365 tenant, scanning Teams messages and SharePoint and OneDrive files for malicious links and malware.
Tune & connect
Remediation policies tuned; connected to your Mimecast email security for one picture; Aware governance added if compliance requires.
Both surfaces steady state
Email and collaboration protected together, one human-risk view across the channels people use. TechBag models the mix in INR/GST.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Email was secured but Teams was open: a malicious file shared in a channel skipped the gateway. That gap is now closed.”
“SharePoint scanning caught malware sitting in a shared library before it spread. That surface was invisible to our email-only tooling.”
“Same Mimecast detection we trust on email, now on Teams and SharePoint — and managed in the same place. The consistency is the value.”
“Running email plus collaboration from one platform gives us one human-risk view across the two channels our people actually use.”
“Microsoft Defender for Teams is capable for an all-E5 shop, but we kept email and collaboration on one platform.”
“Extending into Aware for collaboration governance was straightforward — threat protection and compliance on the same surface from one vendor.”
“Automated remediation removes the malicious content rather than just alerting — that saved us manual cleanup in SharePoint.”
“OneDrive coverage brought personal cloud storage into scope — a gap we had not fully appreciated until we saw what was there.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the email security market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Email-Security Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Email-grade detection extended to collaboration — this page's vendor.
Collaboration Detection × One Platform
The grid nobody publishes — collaboration threat-detection depth vs one platform (email + collaboration).
Email + collaboration on one platform, one human-risk view — the corner it owns.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Collaboration Security vs the field
The native Microsoft option and the collaboration specialists — honest lanes; the edge is one platform across email + collaboration.
| Dimension | Mimecast Collaboration Security | Microsoft Defender (Teams/SP) | Check Point Harmony Collaboration | Email-only security | No collaboration security |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Email-grade, one platform | M365-native | Collaboration specialist | Email only | The gap |
| Teams / SharePoint / OneDrive | All three | All three | Broad SaaS | None | None |
| One platform with email | Yes — same platform | Within Microsoft | Harmony suite | Email tool only | None |
| Governance extension | Aware (same platform) | Purview | Not the focus | None | None |
| Cost model | Per-user add-on | In E5 | Per-user | N/A | Free |
| Best fit | Mimecast email shops extending to collaboration | All-Microsoft E5 estates | Check Point/Harmony shops | Email-only buyers (for now) | Nobody on modern M365 |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Mimecast Collaboration Security if…
- You already run (or want) Mimecast for email
- Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive are a real attack surface for you
- One platform and one human-risk view across email + collaboration matters
- You may extend into collaboration governance (Aware)
Choose Microsoft Defender if…
- You are all-in on Microsoft E5 and want native collaboration security
Choose Check Point Harmony if…
- You standardise on the Check Point/Harmony ecosystem
Email-only (for now) if…
- Collaboration is not yet a priority — but the blind spot remains
No collaboration security if…
- Not advisable on modern M365 — the surface is real
Mimecast Collaboration Security is one of 36 email security products TechBag carries. The Email Security guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What do collaboration-borne threats cost you?
Drag the sliders (count users; IT-hour cost as loaded incident rate). Estimates assume ~1.5 hours per user per year handling malicious links and files that arrive through collaboration tools and shared drives, with ~70% removed by scanning those channels as well as email — the avoided-breach value is the larger, unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Mimecast Collaboration Security prices per user as a platform add-on. TechBag scopes it (and the email pairing) for your M365 estate in one GST quote.
Collaboration Security
Best for the collaboration surface
- Teams, SharePoint & OneDrive scanning
- Email-grade malware & URL detection
- Automated remediation
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ Email & Governance
Best for full coverage
- Pair with Advanced Email Security
- Extend to Aware governance
- TechBag scopes the mix
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Confirm it scans all three — Teams messages/shared content, SharePoint libraries AND OneDrive files — not just one.
Verify collaboration content gets email-grade analysis (URL + malware), not a lighter check.
Test with a threat shared internally in Teams (never touching email) — is it caught?
Confirm malicious content is removed/quarantined, not just alerted — closing the loop.
Decide whether to run it alongside Mimecast email security for one platform and one human-risk view.
If regulated, scope Aware for DLP/records/conduct on collaboration — governance on the same surface.
If you are E5-heavy, compare Microsoft Defender's native Teams/SharePoint coverage honestly.
Right-size per user as a platform add-on — TechBag scopes and quotes in INR/GST.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to close the collaboration gap?
Scope a collaboration PoC (catch a threat shared in Teams that skips email), pair it with your Mimecast email security, or let a TechBag advisor plan both surfaces.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.