RE: email content monitoring / effectiveness

From: bryan_khoo@dynacraft.com
Date: 02/13/03

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    To: laurence_field@yahoo.com
From: bryan_khoo@dynacraft.com
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:55:00 +0800

    Lawrence,
                Try to look into Websense .... http://www.websense.com

    Rdgs,

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    Look into Tumbleweed - all you need is a policy server that will scan for
    key words and stop the email or have it sent to a compliance officer for
    review. It can be set up for users to receive a warning that they sent
    something not allowed. Be aware that you should have this in a policy,
    before beginning the monitoring.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: laurence field [mailto:laurence_field@yahoo.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:50 AM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: email content monitoring / effectiveness

    I would like to get feedback on the quality/usefulness
    of email content monitoring tools available on the
    market.

    Our problem: We need to identify users and monitor
    email content (scary) as some staff are sending
    "gossip" to the press about our public internet system
    reliability, pending IPO gossip / info etc. which then
    escalates to professional bodies / governments whom in
    turn start formal investigations - all over an
    email!!! (we are a financial company).

    Our mail systems are predominately MS Exchange 2000.
    We are reviewing some software solutions at the moment
    to increase our logging of what email is going
    out/content etc. The volume of email is stagering and
    should the "bad" users be technically savvy, there
    seems to be no real way of catching said users who
    breach our security policy. Additionaly, how well do
    these systems work by catching key words?

    I recently heard of a new technology that seems
    smarter than just key word searches but havent been
    able to track it down to-date.

    If anybody could recommend any solutions/feedback on
    this issue it would be very helpful to us.

    Many thanks

    Laurence

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