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.
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.
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.
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.
