At a former employer, they had attachments delayed with suspicious titles for a number of hours (especially anything dealing with their pending merger)This allowed the admins to review the quarantined email before it was sent.
This was done on the Anti-spam solution.. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Oliver Marshall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi chaps, > > > > We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the > process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a > copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user > is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible legal action. > > > > However, while it's almost impossible to prevent a user from emailing a > document out if they really want to, companies are obliged to have a policy > in place requiring them not to doing so, and here in the UK that policy has > to be seen to be implemented and enforced if it is to be referred to in any > action. > > > > We've suggested a proper compliance level archival service in order to > allow for emails to be restored even when users delete emails from their > machines (and their recoverable deleted items in this case). Elsewhere we > have used similar services to also report on certain file types, file names > and sizes of files being sent, and use them to bounce emails under certain > conditions. Bouncing certain emails, while a very limited short-stick, does > allow for the policy to be seen to be in place if people are as silly as to > send out documents with certain names etc (like Accounts2008.xls etc). > > > > What do other companies do to help either prevent people sending docs out, > or to cover themselves legally should they have to take action against a > user for doing so, or to highlight when a user is doing so? > > > > Olly > > > > -- > > G2 Support > > Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web: http://www.g2support.com > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
