Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email

Outbound Email Security and Content Compliance in Today's Enterprise, 2004

While a great deal is known about inbound message-borne threats — including spam and viruses — relatively little attention has been paid to the issue of outbound email content.

How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? How do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? In June 2004, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of 140 technology decision makers to find the answers to these questions.

This report summarizes the findings of that study, including surprising statistics about the how large companies manage the risks associated with email sent from their organizations.

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Outbound Email Security and Compliance

Email has emerged as the most important medium for communications both inside and outside the enterprise. But the convenience and ubiquity of email as a business communications tool has exposed enterprises to a wide variety of new risks associated with outbound email.

Enterprises are becoming increasingly concerned about creating, managing and enforcing outbound email policies that ensure that messages leaving the organization comply with both internal rules as well as external regulations.

Proofpoint helps customers gain control over their inbound email streams by eliminating spam and viruses, but also helps enforce corporate and external policies related out-bound, reducing the risk of unauthorized communications such as:

Confidential material that could be damaging in the hands of a competitor

Offensive or restricted content, such as pornography or copyrighted material

Financial information that could breach securities regulations and/or negatively impact a company's stock price

Customer or patient information that could violate privacy policies or regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley.