MessageLabs Hosted Email Image Control Service
MessageLabs Email Image Filter employs advanced Image Composition Analysis technology to pinpoint and isolate unauthorised and unsuitable images, such as pornography, within emails or attachments.
Why use our Email Image Filter Service?
Email Image Control protects your business from the legal risks of employees sending or receiving inappropriate images such as pornography. Our managed email filtering service operates at the internet level, requiring no hardware, software or ongoing upgrades and the filter can be deployed in minutes to ensure corporate policies are enforced.
Multi-layered technologies designed to block pornography and unwanted image content | Safeguards employees by enforcing acceptable use policies, ensures regulatory compliance and improves productivity |
Highly configurable and accurate Image Composition Analysis technology | Various detection parameters and resulting actions can be applied by your administrator to match your specific needs |
Scans each image within emails and attachments | Protects against the abuse of the corporate email network, for the safety of employees and business reputation |
Fully customisable lists of approved senders and recipients | Scanning can be applied to or removed from specific users and user categories |
Scheduled, detailed and customisable reporting systems including dashboards | Visible and accountable email image filtering |
MessageLabs Email Image Control Service utilises advanced multi-layered image filtering and signaturing technologies to allow you to control all images within emails sent or received by the corporate network. World class Image Composition Analysis tools analyse and recognise faces, body positions, textures and flesh tones, and apply an intricate scoring system to determine whether or not an image can pass through. These tools are specifically successful at blocking pornography.
- Before they are received or delivered, all emails are scanned in MessageLabs global data centres
- All images contained in emails and attachments are examined and assessed for compliance with Acceptable Use Policies, corporate rules and requirements
- Emails containing non-complying images are subject to a variety of actions including deleting or redirecting to the administrator
- Emails which comply with your business’s rules and policies are transmitted without delay
- Fully complying emails are delivered without delay
- Action and data reports can be easily customised and generated
The risks associated with pornography and other inappropriate images found on the corporate network are severe, and can result in serious damage to brand and reputation – as well as productivity and business losses and substantial legal consequences. Control over images within emails necessitates highly advanced and continually updated technology plus unrivalled demand expertise, support and service reliability.
The advantages of MessageLabs Email Image Control are:
- Unmatched accuracy in blocking inappropriate and pornographic email images, based on multi-layered filtering techniques
- Automatic compliance with security policies and regulations, and control over the images being transmitted via email to and from your organisation
- Managed services free up your IT staff to focus their attention on more strategic initiatives
- 24x7x365 protection and support in multiple languages
- Rapid trouble-free deployment without additional costs of purchasing, upgrading and maintaining software and hardware