Email Compliance

Protect Email Without Disruption

Thru provides Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint users with an outbound security and automated archiving solution that is easy-to-use for email compliance. Firms can protect and archive email content by:

• Encrypting and password-protecting messages and attachments
• Preventing unauthorized use of attachments
• Securing links to sensitive content stored in SharePoint
• Offloading large files from primary email storage
• Archiving email to a searchable repository
• Auditing email traffic and user access history

BUSINESS NEED

Email is critical for communication between business professionals today. As government regulations and intellectual property threats have increased, email compliance is a top priority. Sensitive patient records and customer data are hard to manage—sharing them through email multiplies the email compliance challenge. Intellectual property can be emailed without any internal controls. The result is scattered information across email servers and local PST files inside and outside your network. In this environment, how can you ensure email compliance?

Email size or file type restrictions encourage unintended user behavior, like posting files to public websites or using their personal webmail accounts. Also, email is prime evidence during lawsuits. Government regulation mandates the discovery of both electronic and physical files. Email compliance requires efficient archiving, search and retrieval of both electronic messages and files.

IT Challenge

To assure email compliance, outbound content filtering gateways and encryption servers are frequently deployed. The heavy workload of manually inspecting false positives can easily overwhelm even the most prepared email administrators. Tackling the complexity that comes with day-to-day maintenance of encryption keys can be grueling. Too often, users are the ones who suffer. And still, many organizations restrict email use to just inside the network to enforce email compliance. Such policies leave it up to users to figure out the best way to communicate to the outside. As news headlines show, this practice dramatically increases information risk and results in compliance violations.

Solution

Explore Thru Desktop for Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes and the Thru Secure Communication Network™ (SCN) brand of software-as-a-service to learn more about how your business can increase user productivity, reduce risk, optimize email infrastructure and achieve email compliance faster.