Permessa Corporation (formerly DYS Analytics), whose solutions manage today's top enterprise messaging platforms, announced the immediate availability of a new version of its Email CONTROL! Enforcer(TM) software for messaging content control. The product's new features for proactively monitoring and controlling enterprise messaging allows IT staffs to better automate the enforcement of corporate messaging policies. Enhancements also make it easier for IT staffs to reduce employee misuse, create "ethical" email firewalls as required by some industries, and avoid confidentiality breaches that could lead to the accidental dissemination of credit card or national identifier numbers.
WALTHAM, Mass. (BusinessWire EON) August 13, 2007 --
Permessa Corporation
(formerly DYS Analytics), whose solutions manage today’s
top enterprise messaging platforms, announced the immediate availability
of a new version of its Email
CONTROL! Enforcer™ software for messaging
content control. The product’s new features
for proactively monitoring and controlling enterprise messaging allows
IT staffs to better automate the enforcement of corporate messaging
policies. Enhancements also make it easier for IT staffs to reduce
employee misuse, create “ethical”
email firewalls as required by some industries, and avoid
confidentiality breaches that could lead to the accidental dissemination
of credit card or national identifier numbers.
Emails with inappropriate content and/or for excessive personal use are
a potential business liability in today’s
environment of regulatory compliance and eDiscovery rules. Seemingly
innocuous frequent mass mailings and large messages can also consume
significant resources, leading to high operational costs.
Email CONTROL! Enforcer continuously monitors messaging traffic for
email policy compliance purposes. It monitors email based on predefined
business processing rules that are ranked from low to high by the level
of the violation. Email CONTROL! Enforcer applies
each of these rules to outbound and inbound messages and checks for
content violations, based on the level of the violation a different
warning may be sent. For example, “passive
mode” can be used when the deployment is
initially launched as a means of getting employees accustomed to the new
system and as a way for IT to define the rules that best suits the
organization. When users send emails containing content that violates
any of the predefined policies, they receive a passive “warning”
letting them know what rule has been violated and their message
continues to be delivered to the recipient. Subsequently, users become
familiar with the email policy and new user behavior(s) are learned.
Alternatively, when the system is set to “enforcement
mode”, the rules are enforced, and thus the
sender receives either a “warning”
for minor violations, or the message can be “quarantined”
requiring action on the part of the sender, and in cases of severe
violations the message is simply “rejected.”
In industries where communication between two parties is restricted by
law, for example between traders and brokers in the financial sector, an “ethical”
email firewall policy can be established to stop communication between
user names, mail groups, and domain names. If any email is sent between
such groups the software has the flexibility to either quarantine or
outright reject the message and the appropriate IT manager can be
notified.
Email CONTROL! Enforcer automates the enforcement of enterprise
messaging, and significantly reduces IT staff from acting as corporate “email
police”, freeing them for more revenue-impact
projects. The software also helps IT staffs to maintain an efficient and
responsive email infrastructure by reducing server, network and disk
consumption.
“The tremendous risks of unmonitored
messaging are no longer unique to the financial services industry or
other sectors with mandatory regulatory requirements,”
said Stefan Mehlhorn, CEO of
Permessa. “This enhanced version of Email
CONTROL! Enforcer for IBM Lotus Domino gives IT even more proactive
email control within and beyond a corporate network. It helps IT folks
responsible for corporate messaging at any type of organization more
readily demonstrate and enforce compliance to internal email policy and
protects the corporate communication infrastructure.”
What’s New in Email CONTROL!:
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Enhanced Detection of Credit Card and
National Identifier Numbers –
enhancements refine the product’s ability
to prevent the unintentional dissemination of financial card
information via electronic mail. The software checks message body and
subject content for credit, debit or charge card account numbers,
which contain a fixed number of digits and a common recommended
format. Similarly, the body and subject of applicable messages are
searched for national identifiers, such as the US Social Security
number, to identity matches for the specified identifier type based on
its well known format. Unlike other solutions addressing this problem,
Email CONTROL! Enforcer uses proximity matching to significantly
reduce the potential for false positives.
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New “Ethical”
Email Firewalls Support– added
features allow IT staffs to swiftly and flexibly deploy an “ethical”
email firewall in which two groups of email users are limited to, or
prohibited from, communicating via corporate email. Such approaches
are used at large financial institutions where the firm must
demonstrate it has taken steps to prohibit financial traders and
futures analysts from interacting.
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New Message Stream Sampling –
so compliance staff can more quickly gather information that will be
helpful in setting appropriate rule parameters. Large enterprises
often process too many email messages per second for real-time
reporting. Enhancements in the latest version of Email CONTROL!
Enforcer gathers summary information about the message stream based on
a random sampling or message envelope criteria.
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Improved Workflow Reporting - to
help the administrator understand email usage trends at a glance, and
ensure Email CONTROL! Enforcer assists both user and IT alike.
Expanded reports on how quickly users release or discard their
quarantined messages can help the IT administrator to better tailor
feedback notification messages or refine policies.
About Permessa
Permessa Corporation (formerly DYS Analytics, Inc.) provides
enterprise-class products and services that manage today's top messaging
platforms. Allowing corporate IT to take control of their IBM Lotus
Notes, Lotus Domino, Lotus Sametime, Lotus QuickPlace, and Lotus Quickr
networks, Permessa makes Unified Communications work - automating the
entire cycle of analysis, optimization, and control. Our solutions
mitigate risk, increase performance and lower the costs associated with
mission-critical messaging solutions. Permessa’s
customers are large and small, global and local, including such firms as
JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Bank One, ABN AMRO Bank, Zurich Financial
Services, IBM, CSC, Henkel, Novartis, Hewitt, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Schering, and Merck Serono, GlaxoSmithKline. For information about our
products and services, visit www.permessa.com
or send an email to sales_inquiries@permessa.com.
Permessa, Permessa Corporation, DYS Analytics, DYS Analytics, Inc,
CONTROL! and the Permessa logo are trademarks of Permessa. IBM, Lotus,
Lotus Notes, Domino and Sametime are trademarks of IBM Corporation in
the United States, other countries, or both. Microsoft, Microsoft
Windows, Microsoft SQL 2000, Microsoft Exchange are trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to
change without notice.
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