Many organisations understand that they need to protect against SMTP e-mail threats and have put appropriate measures in place. Inappropriate material, viruses and non-work related video and music files can also enter an organisation through downloads from the Web, on disks and CDs. An internal e-mail system can act as a breeding ground, contaminating and spreading threats though out a company, putting an organisation's network and business under threat. The MIMEsweeper Family , running on a version 4 platform, is the most mature content security solution on the market place, having been developed 5 years ago. Over a quarter of the Fortune 200 companies use MIMEsweeper, including seven of the top US banks, to protect their networks and business.
Content security is much more than firewalls, stopping viruses and URL blocking.
It's about agreeing upon policies and managing what is moved, by whom, when, where and how. For new users Sample Policies are available to implement Internet and e-mail policies immediately to protect an organisation's networks and business. About Baltimore MIMEsweeper Baltimore MIMEsweeper is the world's leading family of Internet and e-mail content security solutions. More than 7,000 customers globally, including over a quarter of Fortune 200 companies, use the award winning Baltimore MIMEsweeper solutions to protect their networks and business from e-mail and Web based threats. These threats include the circulation of inappropriate images and text, spam and oversize files that can cause degradation in network service, loss and corruption of data, breaches of confidentiality, as well as viruses and malicious code.