And, indeed, protecting email content and the gateway for it should be one of a corporation's top priorities. There are some industry analysts, after all, who have stated that use of email by employees and home users will rise to 200 million worldwide this year. Email is the main form of communication to countless people all over the world. Often, corporate information is shared via email with investors, partners, customers, mobile users and others. Despite prevalent use of email, it is common that messages are not even guarded with the most basic of protections.
Email is a record.
It is an important document. That lesson was learned the hard way, recall, by Microsoft when the U.S. Department of Justice recovered incriminating email messages pointing to Bill Gates' antitrust behavior. Attacks by viruses are quite real, but legal liability is also a high concern these days. Always, says Shawn Abbot, Rainbow Technologies' chief technology officer, a main barrier to implementing strong protections has been ease of management. Software solutions, such as those offered by Content Technologies and others, can establish the policy and grant or deny access to guard the email gateway.