The recent draft on employee monitoring, released earlier this year by the U.K. Information Commissioner, has caused a stir among employees and employers.
The threats and problems posed by email in large and complex organizations are of a different type and scale of magnitude from the email problems that such organizations first solved with an email ‘point product’ some years previously.
What arrives in our in-boxes these days is becoming progressively richer and fatter. The content includes HTML formatted rich text, hyperlinks and attachments of various types, including Office documents, databases, images, videos, etc. It is now estimated that more than 5 per cent of emails contain images.
As the market for content security products and services continues to grow, it is interesting to compare and contrast the delivery of content security via ‘insourcing’ and outsourcing.