Mimecast, a global cybersecurity leader, has partnered with Google Workspace to enhance governance and compliance capabilities within its collaboration and productivity tools suite. The solution supports key compliance use cases such as AI-powered archiving, data retention, eDiscovery, case management, and compliance monitoring for Google Workspace data sources beyond email. Mimecast’s The State of Human Risk 2025 report highlights the urgent threats posed by collaboration tools, particularly in highly regulated industries like FINRA, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FOIA, and FDIC. The integration of technology into Google Workspace enables end-to-end AI-powered compliance, governance, and insights for Google Workspace customers worldwide.

Mimecast’s Digital Communication Governance, Compliance, and Insights solution, a core component of the Mimecast platform, will equip Workspace customers with advanced capabilities to help proactively manage data risk, maintain compliance, and limit unwanted data exposure, without hindering enterprise collaboration. Mimecast’s technology delivers real-time visibility of actionable insights that can be used to detect policy violations, shape controls, enable swift crisis response, and support retrospective investigations. These challenges now extend beyond traditional regulated industries and encompass virtually any company that handles digital communication and employee data.

“IT teams face a complex and large volume of compliance requirements, often struggling with manual processes, siloed systems, and incomplete datasets across diverse data sources, including challenges related to data residency. Amid heightened compliance pressures, there’s a critical need for comprehensive governance and compliance solutions that operate at speed and scale,” said Mimecast’s  Chief Product & Technology Officer Ranjan Singh. “By combining Mimecast’s expansive global footprint  with Google’s leadership in enterprise data sovereignty, we can provide Google Workspace customers  with choice and flexibility while helping them mitigate risk, accelerate investigations, ensure resilience  across collaborative channels, and unlock actionable insights to drive greater value from their data.”

This integration provides Google Workspace customers with:

  • Retrospective Access: Conduct contextual investigations and respond to incidents via a unified historic search across Gmail and Drive, with Meet, Chat, and Calendar coming later this year.
  • Data Management and Governance: Satisfy archiving and retention needs while controlling data exposure and sprawl.
  • Proactive Analysis: Get ahead of risks and threats to the business with real-time compliance supervision and sensitive data monitoring.
  • Behavior Trends and Insights: Spot patterns in behavior from collaboration and communication data to inform controls, policy, and business decisions.

This latest Workspace data source integration builds on a long-standing partnership between Mimecast and Google, reinforcing their commitment to securing human risk across the enterprise.  Beyond the existing Governance & Compliance offering for Gmail data, Mimecast also integrates with  Google Drive to monitor risky file activity with Incydr and Signal, with Google Security Operations  Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) for centralized detection and response, and with Google Security Operations to deliver comprehensive visibility across log data.

Mimecast is a recognized leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications  Governance and Archiving, helping organizations manage and secure human risk through integrated, AI-powered compliance, governance, and insights solutions.

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