Case Study: Afrifocus Securities achieves regulatory compliance and 100% email continuity with Mimecast UEM

Afrifocus Securities - Customer Case Study

Afrifocus Securities, a Johannesburg-based securities and commodity brokerage managing billions of share transactions annually, faced mounting compliance and operational pressure as it prepared for a major IT review. With strict regulations requiring pre-opening email archiving, large attachments and 40GB public folders per trader, and expensive offsite storage and skills-transfer costs, the firm needed a secure, tamper-proof way to preserve email integrity and the chain of custody while cutting costs.

Afrifocus deployed Mimecast Unified Email Management (UEM), a SaaS archiving, security and continuity platform that eliminated the need for new hardware and ongoing maintenance. Mimecast provided encrypted, tamper-proof archiving with proof of delivery, eDiscovery, DLP and antivirus, plus continuity during outages—delivering compliance, cost savings, a 99.5% reduction in spam and 100% email access for staff.

Afrifocus Securities

Moosa Kotwal

IT Manager