Sendmail, Inc. has published a Risk Assessment Program to benchmark actual security and compliance risks found in outbound email.

The program can be used to discover any gaps between a company's compliance policies - for example their customer's privacy policy statement - and what is actually occurring in outbound email where an estimated 80 per cent of compliance violations occur. The result is the ability to close the gap by enforcing compliance and security policies without impacting email quality of service or replacing email infrastructure.

There are more than 275 million corporate mailboxes in use and over 130 billion emails sent each day (Radicati Group). With over 60 per cent of the world's email being routed through Sendmail, the company warns the potential compliance and security risks associated with electronic disclosure are immense. In recent research sponsored by Sendmail (URL below), only 43
per cent of companies surveyed had a solution in place to stop outbound compliance threats. The Sendmail Risk Assessment Program is the first step an organisation can take to prevent compliance violations in outbound email without replacing their current email infrastructure.

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www.sendmail.com/company/news/20061113/?x=51

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