Self-Optimization In order to be most effective, anti spam solutions must learn based on a recipient’s preferences. While most of us prefer not to receive emails containing term Viagra, some medical organizations might need to receive these emails in order to process patient data. In order to best learn your organizational preferences, anti spam solutions should put filtered emails into a quarantine that allows users to review and make decisions as to whether a particular message is spam. Making this quarantine available to end-user lowers administration costs and increases accuracy of anti spam system.

Each time a user makes a decision about whether a particular email is or is not spam, system becomes more personalized and intelligent about filtering email for that individual in future. Over time, users find that they rarely need to review their quarantines anymore because system has learned how to identify messages that are important to that user.

Don’t throw baby out with bathwater An effective, accurate anti spam solution aggregates multiple spam detection technologies, combining benefits of each individual technique to stop spam while minimizing false positives. It also puts suspected spam into a quarantine that is available to end-users, and learns how to better identify spam in future. To learn more about how IronMail can help your enterprise eliminate false positives while maintaining highest spam accuracy rate available, download CipherTrust’s free whitepaper, ““Controlling Spam: The IronMail Way.”

Organization-Wide Protection A total compliance solution must provide defense for multiple levels of an organization’s communication network, from individual messages to users who send and receive them, to very systems that transfer and store critical information.

Messages Automated and policy-driven encryption protects customer data and ensures integrity of financial data when in transit. A complete encryption solution must be able to dynamically select most appropriate encryption solution based on recipient’s capabilities, including secure delivery to end users with unknown encryption capabilities, as is often case when using email to communicate with clients in healthcare and financial services.

Users End users who send non-compliant information via e-mail through unprotected gateways face very real threat of job termination, lawsuits and even prosecution, should their messages end up in wrong hands. Regardless of whether user’s intention is malicious or a simple mistake, an effective compliance solution will ensure that no damage is done.

Systems Complete compliance requires an e-mail specific firewall and intrusion prevention system. Gateway appliances designed to contribute to regulatory compliance must be able to detect and block hacker attacks directed at appliance itself, as well as at mail servers and other systems sitting “behind” it. Without this level of protection, vouching for integrity of information sent via e-mail is impossible.

Monitoring and Reporting Compliance is not just about detecting and controlling certain types of content. It also requires reporting and communication of compliance status. Compliance officers and administrators must be able to easily access data in order to:

• Analyze and improve organization’s compliance efforts
• Automatically deliver decision-making information to compliance officers in a timely manner
• Easily generate executive-level reports instantly

Take Next Step toward Complete Compliance The last thing your enterprise needs is regulatory trouble, and surest way to find it is by violating federal legislation. To that end, IronMail’s Compliance Control features best-of-breed policy enforcement capabilities, giving compliance officers and executives peace of mind that comes with staying on right side of law. To learn more about how IronMail can help your organization comply with stringent rules surrounding information privacy, download CipherTrust’s free whitepaper, “Compliance Control: Contributing to Corporate Regulatory Compliance.”