System Software Solutions Ltd
Howard Bird House
26 The Avenue
Rubery
Birmingham
B45 9AL

Tel 0121 453 0033
Fax 0121 457 6611
Email solutions@system-software.co.uk
Web www.system-software.co.uk

Managing Content Security

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The concept of eSecurity may seem complex, but the aim is simple: to minimise the risk to eBusiness that security breaches can cause and leverage your return on investment. The emergence of e-commerce has clearly provided a host of new market opportunities, but it has also increased risk. According to industry experts, the success of e-commerce ultimately depends on securing the transactions, information and relationships.

Survey results from IDC show that customers are increasingly regarding security as a very positive infrastructure element. This infrastructure issue has been driven by the need to expand trusted relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and channels.

The greatest asset belonging to a majority of companies is CONTENT or data. Baltimore's eSecurity products enable greater access to corporate content which ultimately deepens and stabilises relationships. eSecurity has ultimately been proven to promise the Internet client that not only will the content of its transaction be protected, but the trusted environment within which it is transmitted leverages the value of the information.

Content Security Issues

Threats hidden in the content of e-mail can paralyse a corporate network and devastate business. Protection from the consequences of these threats means having not only a detailed Content Security policy in place, but also a comprehensive solution to enforce it.

What is Content Security?

As the nature of e-mail and web communication increases, so too do the number and complexity of potential threats. Organisations need to be able to establish and enforce policy-based Content Security policies to manage these threats. E-mail threats can include:

• Degradation in service - circulation of large files, spam and spoof attacks and general network congestion from system misuse
• Data corruption and infection - e-mail-borne viruses, executables and malicious code
• Confidentiality breaches - data leaving the company via the SMTP e-mail gateway
• Damage to reputation - offensive content circulated by e-mail
• Legal liability - defamatory material and libellous information
• Lost productivity - non-work related e-mail use such as the circulation of jokes, movie files and images
• Inappropriate content: circulation of pornography or racist material
• Theft of data: via applications such as 'Back Orifice' or other cyberwoozles

Policy-based Content Security relies on an organisation being able to establish an acceptable e-mail and web usage policy, educating employees on the policy, and enforcing the policy with a suitable software solution. In brief, it means an organisation needs to be able to understand and manage what data has been moved or accessed by whom, and to where it's been moved.

Sophisticated software solutions that can apply different Content Security policies to different situations are essential. This is exactly what Baltimore Technologies deliver with their MIMEsweeper family of solutions, enabling organisations to establish distinct policies to every object that passes through it's network gateway, and enforce these policies per recipient, per department, to cover issues of both business and network integrity:

Business Integrity

• breaches of confidentiality
• damage to reputation through misuse of e-mail and web
• legal liability
• lost productivity
• pornography
• theft of data via e-mail or web-based 'hotmail' accounts
• degradation in service

Network Integrity

• data corruption and infection from e-mail-borne viruses
• loss of network service from spam and spoof attacks
• network congestion from system misuse

The content moved around an organisation is about the company, its customers, partners and employees. The MIMEsweeper family of solutions protects corporate information, corporate reputation, network integrity and employee productivity. These solutions will analyse, protect and manage the content of e-mail and web communications according to an organisations security policies.

As Internet usage has evolved, so have the available security technologies. The MIMEsweeper family of products is deployed in over 6,000 organisations worldwide to help provide that security.

System Software Solutions is one of the UK's top 10 security specialists. Our individual solutions incorporate only best of breed products from the world's leading security software vendors. But for us a solution is not just about selling you product. That's why we have developed a wide range of quality professional services to complement your product investment. Delivered by our own highly skilled technical consultants, this combination of premium products and accredited consultancy ensures you receive the security solution that works for you.