Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention

Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise, 2008


email security and data loss prevention reportHow concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of technology decision makers at 424 large companies — in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia — during March 2008.

This report summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's fifth-annual email security and data loss prevention study, including surprising statistics about how large companies manage the risks associated with outbound email, blog postings, media sharing sites, social networking sites, mobile Internet-connected devices and other electronic communications streams.

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Data loss prevention and email security report from Proofpoint, 2008 edition.

Proofpoint Survey: Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention

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 data loss risks associated with outbound email and other communication streams. Download your free copy of this 2008 Proofpoint survey report and learn:

  • The top enterprise concerns about outbound email
  • Techniques these companies use to reduce outbound email risks
  • How much email contains "risky" content
  • The most common forms of non-compliant email content
  • What percentage of companies employ staff to read outbound email
  • The email policies adopted by large corporations
  • How many companies have fired employees for email policy violations
  • How many companies have fired employees for blog, message board, social networking and media sharing site policy violations
  • How common are email leaks of intellectual property
  • How common are email violations of privacy regulations
  • How common are leaks of confidential information faciliatated by blogs, message-boards, social networking sites and media sharing sites
  • Adoption rates for various data loss prevention technologies

Proofpoint helps customers gain control over their inbound email streams by eliminating spam and viruses, but also helps enforce corporate and external policies related to outbound email, web and FTP transmissions, 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.