Re: e-mail policies

From: theog (theog@theog.org)
Date: 02/25/03

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    Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:54:15 +0200
From: theog <theog@theog.org>
To: pablo gietz <pablo.gietz@nuevobersa.com.ar>

    I dont think preventing e-mails from going out with sensitive
    information helps here , if you dont trust an employee , simply
    implement file permissions , deny "untrusted" employees access to
    sesitive files , a cdrom , floppy , Zip drive ,backup tapes or any other
    media can do the trick of "stealing" information not to talk about ftp
    sites etc.... implement a strong internal security , that will be far
    more usefull then any content filtering you do.

    However , try surfgate from finjan.....
    http://www.finjan.com/products/surfingate_mail.cfm

    pablo gietz wrote:

    > Dear gurus
    >
    > We are defining policies for the use of corporate e-mail, I have
    > doubts about privacy of messages sent by employees. Since the e-mail
    > system is intended for business use, we need to prevent sensitive
    > information disclosure. If we respect the privacy , how can discover
    > infidelity employee?
    > What is your opinion or the standard in this cases? What is the
    > companies approach?
    >
    > Thanks a lot.
    > 

    -- 
T h e  O  g
Liran Cohen
theog@theog.org

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