CipherTrust Introduces Compliance Control -- Enhancing E-Mail Compliance Technology.ATLANTA -- Enhanced IronMail Compliance Feature Set and New Compliance Server Offers Comprehensive Solution Contributing to Regulatory and Policy Compliance CipherTrust(R), Inc., the leader in messaging security, today announced Compliance Control(TM), providing enhanced compliance capabilities to customers concerned with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when (HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, ), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (November 12, 1999), is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition (GLBA GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (Financial Modernization Act of 1999) GLBA Gay and Lesbian Business Association GLBA Great Lakes Booksellers Association GLBA Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve ) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act See SOX. (SOX (1) (Schema for Object-oriented XML) An XML schema developed by Veo Systems and Muzino Communications, which was submitted to the W3C. SOX is based on DTD, but adds data typing and reuse mechanisms. ). Compliance Control is a standard component of the latest version of CipherTrust's award-winning appliance, IronMail 5.0, and will also be available as a stand-alone IronMail Compliance Server. Compliance Control provides enterprises with accurate, effective detection and control of private and regulated content transmitted via e-mail. In addition, Compliance Control is designed to minimize the administrative burden associated with deploying and managing e-mail compliance systems. At its core, Compliance Control is based on four main principles: --Detect regulated material --Prevent compliance violations --Protect systems, messages and users --Comply with reporting and integrity checks To identify terms associated with HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and other regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. , CipherTrust has significantly upgraded IronMail's existing compliance dictionaries and tool sets. Compliance Control includes content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. dictionaries specific to each regulation, and regular expression scanning has been enhanced to search for pre-defined patterns, including social security numbers, phone numbers and credit card numbers. Customized policies to detect specific expression patterns for a specific enterprise also can be created at the customer's discretion. These tools work in conjunction with IronMail's other powerful e-mail scanning techniques, which include attachment scanning and filtering, and scanning of encrypted messages at the gateway. Providing a fully automated e-mail specific compliance solution for enterprises, Compliance Control places regulatory jurisdiction in the hands of the compliance officer, and removes the IT administrator from the process. For example, Compliance Control can be configured with policies to generate automatic approval digests for compliance officers, require pre-approval from the compliance officer to release messages which have flagged policy violations within IronMail, or to archive messages for retention purposes depending on specific content within the messages. In his recent report titled "Reduce the Risk of Data Leaks With Content-Filtering Tools,"(1) Gartner Research Director, Rich Mogull states, "Data leaks can expose enterprises of all types -- not just government agencies -- to serious regulatory, public-relations and financial risks." Mogull also mentions, "Gartner estimates that 80 percent to 90 percent of data exposure result from established businesses processes -- such as insecure File Transfer Protocol A communications protocol used to transmit files without loss of data. A file transfer protocol can handle all types of files including binary files and ASCII text files. See Kermit, Zmodem and FTP. (FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to ) exchanges -- or employee error. Enterprises that deal with sensitive data -- particularly financial and health information -- should implement an appropriate content monitoring and filtering solution." Unveils Regulation-Specific Reporting for Senior Executives and Compliance Officers For compliance officers, reporting also is a critical component of any solution, and Compliance Control provides them with significantly enhanced capabilities. IronMail provides customers with several different reporting options to evaluate the effectiveness of their compliance program, including: --An Executive-level report that provides a high-level summary of actual compliance results that can be shared among executives responsible for compliance. --A Compliance Actions & Effectiveness Report that provides more-in depth data for administering and reviewing Compliance Control's effectiveness. "CipherTrust's customers include many of the world's largest organizations across the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare and manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation , and we always have viewed policy compliance as a fundamental component of e-mail security," said Mike Rothman, vice president of marketing at CipherTrust. "Therefore, as regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA and SOX have evolved, so have the policy enforcement capabilities within IronMail. Unlike other compliance-related products which simply alert organizations to violations after they happen, Compliance Control actively prevents policy violations from occurring. Enterprises truly concerned with regulatory compliance deserve, and should expect, nothing less." Compliance Control is available to all existing CipherTrust customers as part of IronMail 5.0, available this month. For organizations with high message loads, CipherTrust also offers Compliance Control functionality in a dedicated IronMail Compliance Server. About CipherTrust, Inc. CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy The protection of electronic mail from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, e-mail is equated with letters and thus legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping. , and intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877-448-8625. CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. TrustedSource is a trademark of CipherTrust. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. (1)Gartner Research "Reduce the Risk of Data Leaks With Content-Filtering Tools" by Rich Mogull. February 28, 2005. |
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