Security firm releases content inspection appliance, should prevent litigation and damage to reputations

Security vendor Code Green Networks has released a new content inspection appliance to help firms stop staff sending unauthorised or inappropriate content, which might otherwise result in financial losses, damage to reputations or litigation.

The Code Green Networks Content Inspection (CI) Appliance identifies and protects structured and unstructured content over any TCP-based protocol, including instant messaging, web traffic and peer-to-peer file sharing, according to the company’s European director of sales engineering, Mike Smart.

Sitting on the network, the kit uses Code Green’s Deep Content Fingerprinting technology to detect and block set types of content or extracts of confidential content that may have been created as different files.

“First-generation web filtering and email security [technology] has been successful at monitoring structured data, but outbound scanning has to work on another level now,” said Smart. “Around 70 percent of the data [residing in organisations] is unstructured, so to scan for that [is increasingly important].”

The appliance can be installed in less than an hour and features a role-based web interface from which IT administrators can easily implement and manage policies, Smart added.

“From a regulation and data protection point of view, people are now looking to IT administrators for help in securing documents,” Smart said. “Privacy laws [for] employee and customer data are also a clear driver [for the checks], as are companies wanting to protect their intellectual property.”