Mimecast Attachment Protection Supported File Types

Written By Select Cybersecurity

Mimecast does provide this exact list of file types protected by attachment protection already. However, theirs is harder to find due to the generic title they’ve assigned it. I wanted to provide this as a secondary more concise way to find the supported file types by Attachment Protection.

Targeted Threat Protection - Attachment Protect shields against a range of file types, including:

  • All Microsoft Office formats.

    • Note: Visio files are an exception to sandboxing and transcription services.

  • All Open Office formats.

  • PDF files.

  • Archives in ZIP, BZIP, GZIP, 7ZIP, JS, RAR, TAR, LHA, LZH, and XZ formats.

Additional supported file types encompass:

bat, chm, cmd, com, cpl, crt, dll, exe, hta, jar, jse, js, jsp, lnk, mcr, msi, ms, pif, pl, pm, scr, sys, udf, url, vb, vbe, vbs, vbscript, wsf.

If you want to find the original Mimecast KB article you will need: Email Security Cloud Gateway - TTP Attachment Protect - How It Works : https://community.mimecast.com/s/article/email-security-cloud-gateway-ttp-attachment-protect-how-it-works

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