Meeting the Challenge of Email Security and Regulatory Compliance

With the rising popularity of email, comes an increased scrutiny of email for
regulatory compliance.

Because email messages make up a significant portion of
the daily communications of almost any large organization, email messages have
become important evidence in regulatory investigations and lawsuits.

A growing number of industry regulations and national laws explicitly or implicitly
require enterprises to better manage, secure, and archive their email messages.
Some of these regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, apply to public companies
in all industries. Other regulations, such as HIPAA, apply to specific industries,
such as a healthcare.

Around the world, countries are enacting new laws and
regulations to better protect consumers and promote fiscal responsibility. The EU
Privacy Directive and Japan’s Data Protection Act are two examples recent laws
that require businesses to tightly control confidential data about consumers.

While these laws and regulations vary in purpose and scope, they share common
requirements for secure data transmission and storage. These requirements
include real-time filtering of message headers and content, spam management,
anti-virus protection, encryption, hierarchical storage and retrieval, and message
quarantine and review. Enterprises must find of way of meeting these
requirements without sacrificing the benefits of convenience and costeffectiveness
that email offers for daily communications.

Mirapoint, the leading secure messaging leader, offers secure messaging
solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to meet the challenges of
regulatory compliance. Mirapoint messaging appliances provide the secure,
scalable messaging infrastructure organizations need in order to:

• Provide reliable, highly available messaging services that enforce the
authentication and encryption controls required by regulations such as
Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.

• Protect networks from viruses, spam, and other unauthorized traffic.

• Provide the policy-based controls for blocking, redirecting, and archiving
messages, based on regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.

By deploying Mirapoint messaging appliances, an enterprise can quickly and
affordably create a secure, messaging infrastructure for compliance.

Full Report: http://www.mirapoint.com/pdfs/whitepapers/wp_Email_Compliance.pdf

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(I know this is a company sponsored whitepaper but the informaitno provided should be valuable to any company that uses e-mail in its business. Russ)