Clearswift upgrades MIMEsweeper™ for SMTP to boost Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities
Version 5.3 also sees introduction of support for Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice formats
“Research conducted by Clearswift has indicated that within the Australian business community there is still an alarming lack of awareness when it comes to the risks and consequences of data loss. Of the organisations we surveyed, some 20 per cent had s
Sydney, Australia – 16 July 2008 – Clearswift has released a new version of its advanced content security tool, MIMEsweeper for SMTP, to strengthen organisations’ Data Loss Prevention capabilities.
MIMEsweeper for SMTP is a sophisticated email security and management system designed to comprehensively address the complex security layers, policies, processes and procedures that larger distributed enterprises face. The solution provides the flexibility to tailor day-to-day management of email infrastructures to specific organisational needs. It scans outbound email messages to ensure that they match an organisation’s email policy ensuring that any messages containing sensitive or inappropriate information blocked or routed according to the stated policy based upon enforcing multiple outcomes based upon sender, recipient or content.
Data Loss Prevention
MIMEsweeper solutions have traditionally been used by companies wishing to control the content of outgoing emails. This new version sees the introduction of yet more features designed to help enterprises deal with their ever increasing DLP concerns. MIMEsweeper for SMTP is now able to deconstruct and selectively inspect document properties (metadata), along with their headers, footers and body-text for pre-defined keywords or phrases. For example, companies will now be able to choose to block any document containing the words “Company Confidential” in the footer, and only allow documents stating “Approved Template” in the metadata properties, to leave the network. The MIMEsweeper for SMTP content engine now also recognises data such as PCI (credit card) and PII (National Insurance) and hundreds of other forms of protected document tags, including watermarks.
“Research conducted by Clearswift has indicated that within the Australian business community there is still an alarming lack of awareness when it comes to the risks and consequences of data loss. Of the organisations we surveyed, some 20 per cent had suffered a data loss incident in the last 12-18 months – and 38 per cent of those had experienced more than one,” comments Peter Croft, Managing Director for Clearswift Asia Pacific.
“For best practice content security, organisations need to block the bad, protect the good and prevent abuse, which means taking a layered approach to security by monitoring all content leaving the business and ensuring that information is being shared in a secure and safe manner. This latest version of MIMEsweeper for SMTP provides valuable DLP enhancements in a robust and scalable solution that is also cost effective and rapid to deploy.”
Lexical analysis has been expanded specifically for DLP and combined with pre-canned PCI and PII settings, preventing employees from uploading or sending documents containing credit card numbers. These advanced features can also be used to stop information such as social security numbers, patient identifiers or other personal identifiers from leaking out of the company. This is particularly important for businesses concerned with compliance with HIPAA, SEC, SOX and GLBA regulations.
System Management Enhancements
Clearswift has also added several features that will benefit large organisations running complex environments. Customer feedback has led to the introduction of a multi-domain management feature, which will support customers running thousands of users across multiple domains, as well as those organisations undergoing mergers or acquisitions.
Clearswift recognises the ever-increasing diversity of companies’ user bases, particularly across large enterprises, and so extended the localisation of the Personal Message Manager (PMM) interface to support eight new languages (Swedish, Russian, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, Dutch and Danish) in addition to English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
MIMEsweeper for SMTP is available in Australia with prices for the standard SMTP licence, plus one year of support, starting at AUD$3,029 for 50 users. For further information please contact Clearswift on 02 9424 1200 or at info@clearswift.com.au.
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About MIMEsweeper for SMTP
MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.3 has the following key new features:
New media types supported
- Microsoft Office 2007 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- OpenOffice – Writer, Calc, Impress
- Detection of ALSI, NEC Infocage and PointSec encrypted file types
- Multimedia – Flash, Google video, Ogg Vorbis, 3GP, FLAC, Monkeys audio
- Images – IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification and DWF Autodesk AutoCAD
Data leak prevention:
- Lexical templates for PCI Credit Card numbers
- PII (Personal Identifiable Information)
- Increased performance for multiple item and regular expression searches
- Pre-defined HIPAA, SEC and SOX lists
- Selectable scanning of headers, footers and bodies
System Management
- Restrict operators to view one or more domains and no others in multi-domain environments – supports up to 1200 domains on a single configuration and extends to Message Area Management and Reporting functions
- Deeper integration of Edge Server into the Message Center and System Health
PMM enhancements
- PMM support for Public Folders and Windows Groups
- Increased language localisation adding Swedish, Russian, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, Dutch and Danish
Environmental enhancements
- EXCHANGEmanager interceptors to support Microsoft Exchange 2007
- Windows SQL authentication support
- Compatibility with Windows Server 2008
- Client tools compatibility with Vista Business Edition
About Clearswift
Clearswift helps organizations of all sizes conduct business safely over the Internet.
Our policy-based content filtering and security solutions block bad content such as spam, viruses, malware, spyware and pornography; protect sensitive information by preventing leaks; and prevent time-wasting and abuse by controlling inappropriate use of the Web and social media while eliminating exposure to offensive content.
Clearswift makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise e-mail and Web security across all gateways and in all directions. And our EAL4 accredited military and government solutions protect some of the world’s most security-sensitive organizations.
Our technology reflects twenty years of experience across more than 17,000 organizations with a pedigree based upon granular policy management; easy administration; and the ability to combine best-of-breed security tools into powerful, no-compromise defenses.
Clearswift customers use the Internet with confidence.
www.clearswift.com
MIMEsweeper for SMTP is a sophisticated email security and management system designed to comprehensively address the complex security layers, policies, processes and procedures that larger distributed enterprises face. The solution provides the flexibility to tailor day-to-day management of email infrastructures to specific organisational needs. It scans outbound email messages to ensure that they match an organisation’s email policy ensuring that any messages containing sensitive or inappropriate information blocked or routed according to the stated policy based upon enforcing multiple outcomes based upon sender, recipient or content.
Data Loss Prevention
MIMEsweeper solutions have traditionally been used by companies wishing to control the content of outgoing emails. This new version sees the introduction of yet more features designed to help enterprises deal with their ever increasing DLP concerns. MIMEsweeper for SMTP is now able to deconstruct and selectively inspect document properties (metadata), along with their headers, footers and body-text for pre-defined keywords or phrases. For example, companies will now be able to choose to block any document containing the words “Company Confidential” in the footer, and only allow documents stating “Approved Template” in the metadata properties, to leave the network. The MIMEsweeper for SMTP content engine now also recognises data such as PCI (credit card) and PII (National Insurance) and hundreds of other forms of protected document tags, including watermarks.
“Research conducted by Clearswift has indicated that within the Australian business community there is still an alarming lack of awareness when it comes to the risks and consequences of data loss. Of the organisations we surveyed, some 20 per cent had suffered a data loss incident in the last 12-18 months – and 38 per cent of those had experienced more than one,” comments Peter Croft, Managing Director for Clearswift Asia Pacific.
“For best practice content security, organisations need to block the bad, protect the good and prevent abuse, which means taking a layered approach to security by monitoring all content leaving the business and ensuring that information is being shared in a secure and safe manner. This latest version of MIMEsweeper for SMTP provides valuable DLP enhancements in a robust and scalable solution that is also cost effective and rapid to deploy.”
Lexical analysis has been expanded specifically for DLP and combined with pre-canned PCI and PII settings, preventing employees from uploading or sending documents containing credit card numbers. These advanced features can also be used to stop information such as social security numbers, patient identifiers or other personal identifiers from leaking out of the company. This is particularly important for businesses concerned with compliance with HIPAA, SEC, SOX and GLBA regulations.
System Management Enhancements
Clearswift has also added several features that will benefit large organisations running complex environments. Customer feedback has led to the introduction of a multi-domain management feature, which will support customers running thousands of users across multiple domains, as well as those organisations undergoing mergers or acquisitions.
Clearswift recognises the ever-increasing diversity of companies’ user bases, particularly across large enterprises, and so extended the localisation of the Personal Message Manager (PMM) interface to support eight new languages (Swedish, Russian, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, Dutch and Danish) in addition to English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
MIMEsweeper for SMTP is available in Australia with prices for the standard SMTP licence, plus one year of support, starting at AUD$3,029 for 50 users. For further information please contact Clearswift on 02 9424 1200 or at info@clearswift.com.au.
-Ends-
About MIMEsweeper for SMTP
MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.3 has the following key new features:
New media types supported
- Microsoft Office 2007 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- OpenOffice – Writer, Calc, Impress
- Detection of ALSI, NEC Infocage and PointSec encrypted file types
- Multimedia – Flash, Google video, Ogg Vorbis, 3GP, FLAC, Monkeys audio
- Images – IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification and DWF Autodesk AutoCAD
Data leak prevention:
- Lexical templates for PCI Credit Card numbers
- PII (Personal Identifiable Information)
- Increased performance for multiple item and regular expression searches
- Pre-defined HIPAA, SEC and SOX lists
- Selectable scanning of headers, footers and bodies
System Management
- Restrict operators to view one or more domains and no others in multi-domain environments – supports up to 1200 domains on a single configuration and extends to Message Area Management and Reporting functions
- Deeper integration of Edge Server into the Message Center and System Health
PMM enhancements
- PMM support for Public Folders and Windows Groups
- Increased language localisation adding Swedish, Russian, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, Dutch and Danish
Environmental enhancements
- EXCHANGEmanager interceptors to support Microsoft Exchange 2007
- Windows SQL authentication support
- Compatibility with Windows Server 2008
- Client tools compatibility with Vista Business Edition
About Clearswift
Clearswift helps organizations of all sizes conduct business safely over the Internet.
Our policy-based content filtering and security solutions block bad content such as spam, viruses, malware, spyware and pornography; protect sensitive information by preventing leaks; and prevent time-wasting and abuse by controlling inappropriate use of the Web and social media while eliminating exposure to offensive content.
Clearswift makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise e-mail and Web security across all gateways and in all directions. And our EAL4 accredited military and government solutions protect some of the world’s most security-sensitive organizations.
Our technology reflects twenty years of experience across more than 17,000 organizations with a pedigree based upon granular policy management; easy administration; and the ability to combine best-of-breed security tools into powerful, no-compromise defenses.
Clearswift customers use the Internet with confidence.
www.clearswift.com
