Case Study: Al Abbar Group achieves advanced email security and simplified, cost‑saving archiving with Mimecast

Mimecast protects Al Abbar Group from malicious emails and targeted threats while providing a simplified email archiving process

Al Abbar Group, headquartered in Dubai, is the largest architectural building, enveloping and glazing contractor in the Middle East and relies almost entirely on email for business communications. Faced with massive, project-driven retention requirements, slow and costly on‑premises storage (around $75k–$100k per year), poor searchability and growing exposure to targeted email threats, the company needed a secure, scalable archiving and email security solution that would support compliance, discovery and continuity.

Al Abbar deployed Mimecast Cloud Archive together with Targeted Threat Protection and other Mimecast services, gaining an elastic, encrypted archive with 99‑year retention, fast e‑discovery, and integrated threat blocking. The move eliminated large NAS storage costs, streamlined search and legal discovery, stopped ransomware and spear‑phishing attacks, delivered zero email downtime over four years, reduced helpdesk overhead and improved overall email cyber resilience for 700+ users across multiple regions.

Al Abbar Group

Manoj Gopalakrishnan

Al Abbar Groups, ICT manager