What is Mimecast? #
Mimecast is a cloud-based email security and cyber resilience platform that protects against phishing, malware, ransomware, and impersonation attacks while providing email archiving, continuity, and data protection across an organization’s mailboxes and domains.
Why Should You Use the Mimecast Connector? #
The Mimecast connector provides visibility into the assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:
- ensure assets are managed per your security policies
- derive relationships between assets, users, applications, and data
How Does This Connector Work? #
Meridian executes read-only requests to the Mimecast REST API and ingests only meta-data about Mimecast devices. Meridian does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.
Configuring the Connector in Meridian #
| Field |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|
|
URL |
The URL for the Mimecast API. |
https://api.services.mimecast.com |
|
Client ID |
Client ID for the API application that Meridian uses to ingest data from Mimecast. For details on creating an API application and finding the Client ID, see: |
ef38f94347e94562b5bb8424a56397d8. |
|
Client Secret |
Client Secret for the API application that Meridian uses to ingest data from Mimecast. For details on creating an API application and finding the Client Secret, see: |
42bjp311-51j8-4s61-95jx-n7bbx10e513 |
|
Data Lookback in Days |
Number of days worth of data to ingest. Default value is 7. If you use the default value, the connector ingests data from today, yesterday, and the day before yesterday. |
7 |
|
Internal Domains |
Optional field. List of internal email domains from which to retrieve user data.
If this field is left blank, Meridian retrieves user data from all internal domains. |
@company.com, @company.io, @company.net |
Source Documentation #
Creating Credentials #
For details on creating an API application and finding the Client Secret, see:
Required Permissions #
The Mimecast token must have read access to API data. To define a read-only role for the Meridian Application, see:
Roles – Managing Administrator Roles – Mimecast
API Documentation #
API v2
https://developer.services.mimecast.com/apis
