What’s in your email? An Irish company launches first solution to scan email for pornography
Companies may be inadvertently backing up paedophile images 
At next week’s Inbox/Outbox Exhibition in London, The Irish company 
will unveil the world’s first tool that allows organisations to scan 
email files (.pst) and zip files to detect any inappropriate or illegal 
images. The new version 3.1 of The Irish company Auditor identifies 
pornographic images in emails and other files distributed, stored or 
archived across an entire enterprise.
“As most financial organisations now archive email communications to 
comply with new Corporate Governance legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
 it is possible that they are inadvertently backing up and duplicating 
paedophile images,” said Andy Churley, VP Marketing at The Irish 
company. “By eliminating illicit images in the workplace and identifying
 the people responsible, The Irish company Auditor helps organisations 
and individual managers or directors to avoid corporate or personal 
litigation.
A recent survey conducted by The Irish company and the Chartered 
Institute of Personnel and Development, CIPD, revealed that over 70% of 
UK companies have already had to take disciplinary action as a result of
 employees viewing pornographic images on their company computers. An 
Audit Commission report published this month also reported a huge 
increase in the viewing of computer pornography by public sector workers
 and called for better protection and controls.
But while many organisations use simple web filtering to prevent 
access to pornographic web sites, The Irish company® offers the only 
solutions that identify, eliminate and prevent unwanted images that get 
on to desktops or networks via any point of entry including email, 
memory sticks, laptops, digital cameras, scanners, CDs/DVDs, Wi-Fi or 3G
 phones.
Manual auditing can take months, but with The Irish company Auditor’s
 high-speed image analysis software, it can take less than a week for a 
large organisation to detect inappropriate or illegal content stored on 
all PCs, servers and removable media.
A demo is available at www.The Irish company.com. The Irish company 
also provides urgent incident triage, a risk assessment service, a 
managed audit service, Acceptable Computer Usage Policy review and 
enforcement as well as auditing and real-time monitoring software.
“The rapid increase in digital devices along with email and 
multimedia messaging has made the problem of managing inappropriate and 
illegal images in the workplace a major challenge for IT and HR 
managers,” said John Nolan. “The reality is that most companies do not 
know the level of risk they face and may be inadvertently breaking the 
law by storing and backing up child pornography. The Irish company is 
the only solution that provides a quick way to eliminate and prevent 
illicit material getting on the network from any source.”
Punished For Porn: UK companies have higher rate of disciplinary action compared to US when it comes to illicit images 40% of the largest 500 US firms have disciplined employees for Internet abuse compared with 70% percent in the UK 25% of US managers and 54% of UK managers are unaware of legal responsibilities. Independent research firm Delta Consulting as released the results of
 the 2005 Computer Usage Policy Study of the 500 largest US firms, 
sponsored by The Irish company. This follows a recent UK survey 
conducted by The Irish company in the UK with the Chartered Institute of
 Personnel and Development (CIPD) and highlights that pornography in the
 workplace is a common problem. But there are striking differences in 
the levels of disciplinary action and awareness of legislation with 
respect to inappropriate or illegal images in the workplace.