Microsoft recently claimed that they handled about 3.1 million internal emails every day, across their 52,000 mailboxes, say internet security firm Baltimore.
Microsoft recently claimed that they handled about 3.1 million internal emails every day, across their 52,000 mailboxes, say internet security firm Baltimore. Internal e-mail is posing a greater threat to an organisation than ever, Baltimore argue, having released MAILsweeper for Exchange 2000, an e-mail content security solution for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server users. Gary Thomassen of Baltimore says: ?It is easy to think that e-mail based threats to your organisation relate only to internet e-mail because of the high profile of virus outbreaks. However, internal e-mail issues such as bandwidth hogging message attachments, harassment and confidentiality breaches can result in reduced employee productivity, hostile work environments and multi-million dollar financial losses.? MAILsweeper for Exchange 2000 enables administrators to define and enforce policies on e-mail sent between individuals, groups, departments or to the entire organization. For example, administrators can uniformly apply anti-virus scanning policies to all e-mail passing through Exchange servers or establish policies limiting the distribution of large video files with the exception of specific marketing promotions. See www.baltimore.com.
