Securing the information that exits a corporate network is often as important as defending the inbound email stream.  Misuse of corporate information, data leakage and improper content can result in significant exposure.  Tumbleweed has solutions that ensure your outgoing email is compliant, secure and properly routed. 

Content Filtering

Without visibility and control over the information entering and leaving their corporate email networks, organizations risk legal liability, regulatory violations and penalties, abuse of email resources, competitive threats, and loss of priceless information assets.

Email Firewall protects against these dangerous and costly risks by allowing organizations to centrally define and manage a set of policies, and automatically apply them to all inbound and outbound email. When a policy violation is detected, Email Firewall can take a broad set of actions before the message passes through the corporate firewall-safeguarding systems and networks, information, and business relationships.

With Email Firewall, organizations can:

• Enforce communications policies that ensure compliance with government regulations (HIPAA, GLBA) and corporate policies that you define.
• Reduce legal liability by identifying messages that include potentially risky language, like “guaranteed return” in financial services, or diagnostic codes in healthcare. 
• Protect intellectual capital by scanning message content to prevent sensitive information from leaving your corporate network.
• Cut operational costs by reducing the need for manual review and archiving.                    

Email Encryption

Each organization has its own unique security needs when it comes to delivering sensitive information—from complying with government privacy regulations in Healthcare (HIPAA) and Financial Services (GLBA) to enforcing corporate policies (SOX) and protecting intellectual property. Security solutions, such as desktop-based encryption, that rely on thousands of individuals installing and consistently using digital certificates are cost-prohibitive, time-consuming, and—in the end—ineffective. To efficiently and safely facilitate online communication, businesses need to create a secure channel that protects information automatically, so that every employee, customer, and partner benefits from secure e-mail without having to actively implement and manage it.

Secure Messenger™, now in its sixth generation, is the leading software solution for securing email communications. Currently deployed at some of the most demanding enterprises in the Global 2000, MailGate Secure Messenger works with MailGate Email Firewall to inspect all outbound email at the network gateway. Based on policies that your organization defines, it automatically identifies violations based on the content of the email, and redirects suspect messages to a secure, encrypted channel for further action. This perimeter-based design ensures that all users comply with enterprise privacy and security policies all the time.

With Secure Messenger, organizations can:

• Ensure the privacy and protection of personally identifiable financial information to comply with regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), thwart the rapidly growing threat of phishing scams, and satisfy customers demanding more security in their online communications.
• Eliminate end-user training and IT staffing requirements for secure email key/password management with centralized policies and automated enforcement. 
• Automate and track the delivery of messages to create a documented "paper trail" for compliance and auditing purposes.
• Leverage existing email infrastructures, including any email server or client as well as PKI, enterprise directory, and identity management solutions.                                             

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Desktop Encryption

As organizations try to protect sensitive information and provide secure channels for communication, there is increasing concern about internal threats. While Tumbleweed provides multiple methods for securing messages leaving the corporate gateway, some message are too sensitive to risk exposure within the organization. For example, executives dealing with trade secrets, M&A activity, or sensitive regulated information, often want to assure security from end-point to end-point. Unfortunately, desktop encryption solutions in the past have been notoriously difficult to use, and painful to manage.

Tumbleweed’s Desktop Messenger, is an elegant solution that is easy to use, practical to manage, and provides robust, standards-based encryption from the user’s desktop.

With Desktop Messenger, organizations can:

• Encrypt sensitive internal communication from the desktop
• Provide secure delivery to any internal or external recipient without prior setup
• Support mobile devices with standards-based S/MIME encryption
• Meet compliance standards for legal discovery with key escrow system

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Information Leakage

Whether security policies are violated inadvertently or maliciously, information leakage can cause serious damage, from costly lawsuits and regulatory fines, to loss of customer trust and ultimately lost business.

A recent study revealed that 75 percent of Fortune 1000 organizations surveyed reported a security breach in the prior 12 months. The leaks involved personal information about customers, personal information about employees, involved confidential business information, and intellectual property, including software source code.

These types of breaches can violate any number of regulations that mandate organizations to maintain security and privacy of information that is electronically stored, maintained, or transmitted.

Tumbleweed’s products provide the comprehensive email security, content filtering, policy management, and audit capabilities you need to prevent information leakage and ensure compliance with industry and government regulations.

With Tumbleweed’s Email Security products, organizations can:

• Define and manage a set of security and privacy policies that ensure compliance with HIPAA, GLBA, and SEC and NASD regulations.
• Filter all outbound messages to identify and prevent sensitive or confidential information from leaving your email network

When a policy violation is detected, take a broad set of actions before the message passes through the Internet gateway:

• Encrypt the email message before sending it
• Store any attached documents and send a notification to the recipient to download them from a secure server
• Block the email message and notify the sender
• Notify the sender and compliance officer for corrective action
• Archive email to an external encrypted storage system
• Encrypt email messages to ensure security and privacy, no matter who the recipients are

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Secure Statement Delivery

Many businesses and government agencies need to deliver confidential information to their customers, patients, constituents, or business partners, such as:

• Account analysis statements for commercial banking customers.
• Trade confirmations for brokerage customers
• Tax information for constituents
• Drug test lab results for patients and employers

Tumbleweed Secure Messenger enables these organizations to reduce costs and speed communications by encrypting and securely delivering sensitive information online in compliance with government regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX.). Because Secure Messenger creates a secure communications channel with any Internet user who has a standard email client and a Web browser, you don't need to distribute, install, or support new client software to deliver documents securely online. 

With Tumbleweed Secure Messenger, organizations can:

• Create and securely deliver electronic statements to anyone via email for mere pennies.
• Encrypt email messages to ensure security and privacy when in transit to the recipient ("push") or being stored on the server for retrieval ("pull").
• Employ a range of authentication methods, including account passwords, statement–specific passwords, and digital certificates.
• Eliminate delivery delays and provide secure online repositories, integrated with your Web site, where recipients can receive and manage their business communications.
• Track messages to identify which have been delivered and viewed, which have been delivered but not opened, and which have reached invalid email addresses. In addition, Tumbleweed provides detailed reporting, and can alert you instantly to problems with mail lists or servers.

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