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Discern Security

Developed by Discern Security

Proactive defense, Asset management and Cybersecurity Dashboarding

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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.

Developer: Discern Security
Supported By: Discern Security
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Release Date: January 2025
Version: 2.0
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Solution overview

  1. Enhanced Security Controls: Clients receive scorecards and recommendations to fortify top security controls, ensuring robust defense mechanisms against email-related threats..
  2. Framework Alignment: Seamless mapping of controls with the MITRE framework facilitates precise progress tracking, promoting adherence to industry standards and compliance regulations..
  3. 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.
  4. Automated Policy Enforcement: The implementation of closed-loop automation for email security policies strengthens posture and facilitates agile responses to emerging threats.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

Mimecast + Discern Security use cases

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Make full use of a customer’s investment in Mimecast

Visualize, prioritize, and remediate Mimecast configuration risks.
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Identify Risky Users and Assets

Utilize Mimecast insights to spot risky users, assets, patterns.
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Map Controls to MITRE

Visualize progress on security programs with controls mapped to MITRE
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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.
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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.
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Key benefits

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Get scorecards and recommendations for hardening top security controls.

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Eliminate the need to hire expensive security experts for controls management.

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Cross-optimize your email security controls with CASB, EDR, etc. and closed loop policy automation.

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Map controls to MITRE framework and show progress in terms of controls.

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Build CISO dashboards showcasing protection achieved through Mimecast.

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