Repton Newsletter

Why Classification Matters?

Classifying email is a technique for adding protective marking and metadata to email. It is an effective strategy to manage and control valuable information by:

raising user awareness of sensitive information
protecting digital assets and achieving regulatory and policy compliance requirements
automating the application of encryption and other existing technologies

Data Loss needs to be addressed before it occurs!
Titus Labs offers email and document classification solutions which prevent inadvertent and intentional disclosure of sensitive data with proper protective markings. Better still the technology enables organisations to better utilise much of their existing technology. The touch points that can read this type of data include solutions some of which are shown below (please note the list is shows example solutions and is NOT comprehensive):

Touch Point	Benefit of Integration
Managed Services Content Filtering : Messagelabs, Postini, Websense (Blackspider), Webroot (Email Systems)	Ability to filter, block, quarantine content based on classification.
Encryption : PGP Universal etc	Ability to automatically encrypt messages at the gateway based on the classification of each message, thus removing the decision from the user.
Data Loss Protection : Vontu, Workshare, Cryptzone	Most DLP solutions are able to read Meta Data classification data to help build comprehensive rules and policies to protect data.
Archiving : Quest Archive Manager, Symantec Enterprise Vault, C2C Archive One and many more	Ability to pre-populate retention / expiry dates based on the classification and simplify the discovery process by leveraging the classification of the assets concerned.
Blackberry Integration	The blackberry integration allows users to use the same classification markings when sending messages from a blackberry device. It can also allow your BES server to restrict the delivery of “confidential” or “sensitive” emails to the users device.

For learn more about the issues realted to the use of email within large UK public sector & Corporate organisations, please contact Christian Hughes at Repton on 020 8890 9000 or email christian.hughes@repton.co.uk