New partnership brings Mimecast's cyber resilience platform to partners across Africa, helping organisations strengthen protection against evolving cyber threats across e-mail, data, AI-powered environments. Johannesburg, 23 Oct 2026 First Distribution, which positions itself as Africa's leading value-added distributor of technology solutions, today announced a new partnership with Mimecast, which positions itself as a global leader in securing humans, data and AI, to make Mimecast's integrated cyber resilience platform available to partners across Africa. Through this partnership, First Distribution will provide African partners with access to Mimecast's comprehensive cyber resilience platform, enabling them to help customers secure e-mail, data and AI-powered environments. Backed by more than 24 trillion behavioural signals each year and over two decades of behavioural intelligence, Mimecast helps organisations identify, prevent and respond to phishing, ransomware and business e-mail compromise attacks before they result in financial loss, data exposure or business disruption. As African organisations accelerate digital transformation, cloud adoption and the use of artificial intelligence, the cyber risk landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. Cyber criminals are increasingly exploiting the human element through sophisticated e-mail attacks, social engineering, collaboration platforms and emerging AI-driven techniques to gain access to sensitive information. Simultaneously, organisations are navigating increasingly complex regulatory requirements, data protection obligations and business continuity expectations, making cyber resilience a critical business priority. Businesses today require more than standalone security tools. They need integrated, intelligent capabilities that reduce human risk, protect communications and critical data, strengthen compliance and secure rapidly evolving digital and AI environments. Through this partnership, First Distribution and Mimecast are helping partners deliver these capabilities to organisations across the continent. "Africa's organisations require solutions that go beyond traditional e-mail security to address the growing challenges associated with data protection, human risk and AI-driven threats," said Yolandi Landsberg, Mimecast Brand Manager at First Distribution. "By adding Mimecast to our cyber security portfolio, we are equipping our partners with a market-leading cyber resilience platform that enables them to deliver greater value to their customers while helping them navigate an increasingly complex threat environment." "Africa's cyber security market is growing faster than most organisations can keep pace with, and that's exactly the gap this partnership closes," said Sue Nesbitt, Mimecast VP Sales - Africa. "First Distribution's established regional partner networks gives us the reach to get resilience capabilities into the hands of organisations of every size, across key markets in southern, East and West Africa, at the speed the threat landscape demands, and gives Mimecast the channel depth to scale with them. This is growth built in both directions." Partners will benefit from dedicated sales enablement, technical support, training, marketing programmes and go-to-market resources designed to accelerate customer adoption and build sustainable cyber security practices. "Cyber resilience has become a boardroom conversation, particularly as organisations embrace cloud-first strategies and AI technologies," said Brad Stein, General Manager: Cyber Security at First Distribution. "Our partnership with Mimecast reinforces our commitment to providing partners with best-of-breed security solutions that help organisations protect their people, communications and business-critical data. Together, we are enabling our channel ecosystem to address today's threats while preparing customers for the opportunities and risks of the AI era." "This partnership is about extending Mimecast's reach through a distribution network that truly understands the African channel. By working closely with First Distribution, we're able to put our platform directly into the hands of partners who know their local markets, so more organisations across the continent can benefit from enterprise-grade cyber resilience," adds Yuraisha Mari, Channel Director Africa at Mimecast. By combining Mimecast's proven cyber resilience platform and global expertise with First Distribution's established regional presence, deep market knowledge and extensive partner ecosystem, the partnership will enable organisations across Africa to build stronger security postures and improve cyber resilience. Together, Mimecast and First Distribution are helping organisations better protect their people, communications and critical business data while embracing innovation in an increasingly connected, AI-driven economy.

Mimecast launches Data Governance for Google Workspace offering: every connector, one per-user price. Archive and govern all of your Google Workspace data without consumption or storage charges Oct 20, 2026 Key points. * Available today: Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace covers every governance use case, from compliance archiving and eDiscovery to supervision and behavior insights, across Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Drive, and Google Meet. * One per-user price: No consumption billing, storage overages, or per-connector fees. The cost is predictable and matches the way organizations already buy Google Workspace. * Single search: One search across Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Drive, and Google Meet, so legal and compliance teams can run investigations and regulatory responses in-house and resolve them up to 6.7x faster than working across disconnected tools. * Real-time supervision for real-time collaboration: Mimecast analyzes communications as they arrive. Archiving platforms built for email index and analyze data in batches, delaying when compliance teams can see and act on risk. Financial services firms operate under some of the strictest recordkeeping and supervision requirements of any industry, and the cost of falling short is real. In 2025, FINRA levied $75 million in fines, with recordkeeping missteps ranking among its top five enforcement issues by total fines, as regulators continue to scrutinize how firms capture, retain, and produce communications data. Google Workspace provides robust archiving capabilities, giving financial institutions a supported path to adopt Gemini in Google Workspace while meeting FINRA and other recordkeeping requirements. With this launch, Mimecast helps Google Workspace customers with FINRA compliance as one of Google's archiving partners. Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace is available to customers now. As regulations multiply and data spreads across email, collaboration platforms, and now AI tools, most organizations are struggling to keep up. According to Mimecast's State of Human Risk 2026 report, 91% of organizations face governance challenges, and 59% lack confidence they can quickly locate and retrieve communications data when regulators demand it. Responsibility for governance is often split across IT, legal, compliance, and security teams, with no single owner accountable for the full picture. The data is as fragmented as the responsibility for governing it. Governance isn't one team's job, and the data doesn't sit in one place. Legal, compliance, HR, IT, and security all need answers from the same expanding set of data. Email, chat, files, meetings, and now AI-generated content each risk becoming their own silo, with their own console, retention rules, and blind spots. With many archiving vendors, every new data source is also a new integration to manage and a new line item in the budget. Mimecast Data Governance brings all of it under one platform. For Google Workspace customers, that means one place to govern, search, and act on Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Meet data, under one license. Real-time supervision for real-time collaboration. Collaboration in Google Workspace is live. Traders securely discuss positions in Chat, advisors meet clients in Meet, and analysts share research in Drive while the work is underway. Google's SMTP journaling captures Gmail, Chat, and Calendar messages synchronously as they pass through Google's servers, so the record exists the moment a message is sent. The next question is how quickly the archive can act on that record. Archiving platforms built for email store data and search it later. They ingest and index data in batches, and their supervision and analytics run against the same index. The time between when a message is sent and when a reviewer can see it depends on the batch schedule, not on the risk in the message. Mimecast runs supervision policies, sensitive data detection, and behavior insights on communications as they arrive, not after an indexing cycle completes. For Google Workspace customers, this means: * Supervision for regulated users: Messages from FINRA- and SEC-regulated populations are evaluated against policy as they are sent, and flagged items go to reviewers without waiting for a batch job. * Sensitive data detection: Client data, account numbers, and other regulated information shared in Google Workspace is identified when it is shared. * Insights that stay current: Organization-wide patterns in communication and collaboration data update continuously, so the view compliance and HR teams work from reflects this week, not the last reporting cycle. For a supervision team, this is the difference between stopping a problem while the conversation is still going and documenting it after the fact. Coverage across the Google Workspace suite. Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace supports Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Drive, and Google Meet, including Meet recordings, transcripts, and metadata. Along with real-time supervision and insights, customers get policy-based retention and unified, AI-powered search across every connected source. Legal and compliance teams can run investigations and regulatory responses in-house instead of sending data to outside counsel, and resolve investigations up to 6.7x faster than when working across disconnected tools. AI-assisted work carries the same legal and regulatory obligations as email, and the same connectors cover it. When Gemini drafts a message in Gmail or a Meet call produces a transcript, that content is captured and governed like any other record. Mimecast also governs Claude Enterprise on the same platform. For organizations standardizing on Google Workspace, Mimecast provides a governance and compliance foundation that moves with them, whether they're consolidating tools or migrating from another platform. A pricing model built for collaboration, not consumption. Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace is a single offering. It includes every Google Workspace connector and every governance use case, not only archiving: compliance archiving and retention, eDiscovery, holds, DSARs, supervision, sensitive data detection, and organization-wide behavior insights. It is priced per user. There is no consumption billing, no charge tied to storage or data volume, and no fee to add a connector. Legacy archiving vendors commonly price on the data they ingest and store, so costs rise as usage grows. In Google Workspace, usage grows every time a team records a Meet call, opens a new Chat space, or starts drafting with Gemini. Per-user pricing takes that variable out of the budget. Google Drive coverage requires Google's Assured Controls add-on and an AODocs license. Organizations already license Google Workspace per user. They can now license governance for it the same way. Finance can forecast the cost when the contract is signed, and compliance can turn on a new connector without starting a new procurement cycle. The bottom line. This launch gives regulated firms a supported path to adopt Gemini in Google Workspace while meeting their recordkeeping obligations. Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace, available today, covers the rest. Every connector, every governance use case, predictable per-user pricing, and supervision and insights that run in real time, at the same speed as the collaboration they govern. Explore Mimecast Data Governance for Google Workspace, or talk to your Mimecast team about per-user pricing for your organization.

Mimecast launches Singapore cloud infrastructure to boost regional data residency across Southeast Asia. Global cybersecurity leader Mimecast has expanded its regional footprint by launching AWS-hosted data infrastructure in Singapore to serve organizations across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. The expansion enables regional enterprises, including those in Malaysia, to store and process email, compliance, and security data locally while accessing the full cybersecurity platform. Discover more Track Investments Learn AI Tools MALAYSIA, 19 OCTOBER 2026 - Global cybersecurity and human risk management firm Mimecast today announced the expansion of its regional cloud hosting capabilities in Singapore through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The move provides dedicated regional infrastructure for organizations across Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand. As regulatory scrutiny, procurement requirements, and risk committees place stronger emphasis on data sovereignty and data residency, enterprise organizations increasingly require precise clarity on where sensitive communications and compliance data reside. Mimecast's local deployment in Singapore addresses regional hosting preferences without compromising on security or functional performance. The newly established Singapore hosting infrastructure operates on the same core codebase, monitoring protocols, and deployment architecture as Mimecast's global cloud deployment. Consequently, regional organizations gain access to the complete suite of capabilities offered by the Mimecast platform, including automated threat containment, behavioral analysis, and policy enforcement across human, email, endpoint, and AI vectors. The launch builds upon Mimecast's broader global infrastructure roadmap, following dedicated regional deployments across the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. This marks the company's first infrastructure extension specifically designed to address residency expectations within Southeast Asia. Pravar Gautam, Director of APJ Partner Core at AWS, highlighted that data residency has emerged as a central decision criterion for enterprise technology procurement across Southeast Asia. Hosting Mimecast on AWS regional infrastructure allows regional organizations to meet local data governance preferences while maintaining enterprise performance and security standards. With immediate effect, new enterprise customers across the specified regional markets can store and process data in Singapore from day one, gaining complete transparency over data location alongside advanced threat protection capabilities.