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3BView Solution Finder - Information Leak Prevention (ILP)

How can you ensure your business is protected from leaking confidential information?

Businesses are now focusing, rather than on the risk from inbound communication, on the risk of leakage of sensitive, proprietary or confidential information from out bound electronic communication. Errors due to information being accidentally leaked in electronic communications and documents have cost corporations hundreds of millions of dollars in major legal cases in the last few years.

Businesses must also comply with an ever increasing set of regulations and the e-discovery requirements, which require them to control and store their electronic communication, and be able to prove this control via an audit trail.

“Through 2010 we expect 80-90% of sensitive information leaks to be unintentional, accidental or the result of poor business processes”

Paul Proctor, Research Vice President, Gartner

3BView’s products solve the problems of information leaking from electronic communications and documents, avoiding sensitive information getting into the wrong hands, and ensure compliance with regulations and legislation. Based on our 3BClassify platform, our products use advanced policy-based processing to monitor and control outbound electronic communications, for example to stop confidential documents being emailed outside a company or to remove ‘metadata’ (such as tracked changes) accidentally left in a document.

3BView’s technology sits alongside your email server, integrates with your other business systems, or is provided as a service hosted by us, and works with Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Our 3BClean product cleans metadata from a wide range of documents including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Open Document Format (ODF) and PDF. 3BClassify covers communications via email (including via webmail and mobile devices) which has been the main focus of our existing customers, is extensible to cover all relevant protocols for the electronic transfer of information e.g. IM, FTP, HTTP and can be integrated with business systems such as Enterprise Content Management systems.

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