Email is second only to removable storage as the most common cause of data leakage* and it's estimated that one in five outgoing emails contains data that poses a legal, financial or regulatory risk.
Given email's centrality to business communications, organisations need high-quality scanning for their message traffic, checking for potential violations (accidental or otherwise) without hampering business-critical data flows.
The MIMEsweeper content engine has the capacity to perform deep content inspection; for email traffic that means visibility of:
- Message Headers
- Senders and Recipients
- Subject lines
- Message bodies
- Attachments and their contents
- Headers and Footers of documents
- Meta data with documents such as Author, Title and creation date
The content engine is responsible for the true-file type detection and also text extraction and scanning. The scanning for textual items within messages and attachments allows for the detection of:
- Social Security Numbers
- Credit Card Numbers
- Banking codes
- Profanity
- Confidentiality clauses
- Customer defined expressions
- Dictionaries containing expressions can be created by customers; use pre-defined dictionaries are also available, including for GLBA, HIPAA, SOX and PCI.
*Source: Forrester Research.