A Powerful Enhancement for Cloud Archive Customers
In today's workplace, business communications go well beyond email. With instant messaging apps like Teams and Slack, file sharing, and numerous collaboration platforms, critical data is spread across multiple channels. Finding and governing this information quickly is vital for legal, compliance, HR, and IT teams.
Mimecast is excited to announce Search & Discover for Email—our next-generation, AI-powered search and discovery application that brings unified search capabilities across all your communications data in one easy-to-use platform. Available December 9th, 2025, this enhancement is included at no additional cost for all Mimecast Cloud Archive customers.
What Search & Discover Means for Current Mimecast Cloud Archive Customers
If you're already using Mimecast Cloud Archive, Search & Discover enhances your current environment without disrupting your workflows. There's no need to migrate data or lose access to your existing features. Instead, this upgrade introduces a single interface where you can simultaneously search email, instant messages, and files—eliminating the need to jump between separate tools. This unified search approach makes investigations, eDiscovery, and compliance tasks faster and more efficient, with data investigations running 7x faster than competitive solutions.
All your existing retention policies, legal holds, and governance capabilities remain fully intact within the tools you use today, such as Case Review and the Administration Console. Search & Discover simply adds a powerful new layer of capability, designed to scale with your organization's evolving communication channels and regulatory demands.
Security and privacy remain paramount. The platform enforces strict role-based access controls and ensures your data is never used to train external AI models, keeping your business communications confidential and secure. Exporting data is also improved, with flexible options like zipped EML or PST formats, delivered in manageable chunks to streamline collaboration and review.
AI-Powered Search: Finding What Matters Faster
One of the standout features of Search & Discover is its AI-powered assistant, known as the "Ask" feature. Think of it as ChatGPT for your archive. This AI agent allows you to interact with your data using natural language queries, much like talking to a colleague. Instead of crafting complex search strings, you simply ask questions, and Mimecast AI surfaces relevant results with full conversation context—including edits and deletions for Teams and Slack.
This capability dramatically reduces the time and effort needed to locate critical information during investigations or regulatory responses. It helps you find the proverbial "needle in the haystack" quickly and accurately, cutting down manual searches and improving productivity. Mimecast AI also provides sentiment and language detection, enabling deeper insights into communication patterns and potential risks.
Extend Beyond Email
Your team will have Search & Discover included with your email archive at no additional cost, but what about your collaboration tools? You can extend Search & Discover to platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack, enabling you to:
- Search across both email and collaboration tools simultaneously
- Prevent data leaks and compliance violations in Teams and Slack channels
- Search and export for regulatory requirements, data discovery, and DSARs across all communication platforms
Contact your Mimecast representative to learn more about extending unified search capabilities to your collaboration tools.
Looking Ahead: Future Enhancements
We're committed to continuously enhancing Search & Discover to meet your evolving needs. On our roadmap, we're focused on expanding coverage to include OneDrive and SharePoint, completing the Microsoft 365 stack alongside email and Teams. We're also developing redaction capabilities specifically designed to help organizations meet DSAR (Data Subject Access Request) requirements more efficiently, enabling you to respond to privacy requests with greater speed and confidence.
Empowering Your Teams to Manage Risk and Compliance with Confidence
Search & Discover is crafted for the teams who protect your organization—legal, compliance, HR, and IT professionals who need fast, reliable access to comprehensive communications data. By dramatically speeding up investigations and enabling unified search and governance, this solution helps reduce risk, improve compliance, and streamline workflows.
Available December 9th, 2025, at no additional cost to Cloud Archive customers. If you're interested in learning more or getting started with Search & Discover, contact your Mimecast representative or click THIS LINK for detailed resources and setup guides. Mimecast remains committed to providing you with tools that simplify your cybersecurity and compliance challenges while safeguarding your data. Search & Discover is the next step in helping you find what matters faster, with confidence, control, and without compromise.
