Case Study: Spoor & Fisher achieves unified archiving, 99.5% spam protection and email continuity with Mimecast

Spoor & Fisher looks to non-judgmental spam solution from Mimecast

Spoor & Fisher is a century-old international intellectual property law firm with offices in South Africa and the Channel Islands that needed a reliable, compliant email solution. Faced with South African record-retention laws, time-consuming tape-based email backups, and the need for flexible spam filtering that wouldn’t block legitimate legal content, the firm prioritized archiving, spam prevention and disaster recovery.

Mimecast provided a cloud-based unified email management service with secure offsite archiving (default ten-year retention), reputation-based spam and virus protection, Outlook-integrated continuity and automatic failover—requiring no hardware, software or user training. The result: predictable storage and compliance, elimination of cumbersome tape searches, 99.5% spam/100% virus protection with a digest replacing quarantine, saved IT hours, continued email availability during outages and improved user productivity.

Spoor & Fisher

Heinrich Schmidt

Head of IT Department