MessageLabs Hosted Email Content Control Service


MessageLabs Hosted Email Content Control service scans email messages and attachments to identify confidential or, inappropriate content being sent or received by employees within your organisation, helping to enforce acceptable usage policies and safeguards regulatory compliance, reputation and productivity.

Our Email Content Filter complements our Email Image Control service as well as our Email Policy Based Encryption service to provide an enhanced level of email security.

Why use our Email Content Control Filter?

Our hosted Email Content Control filter provides an easy-to-use management interface, a wealth of functionality and non-stop availability. The service harnesses a range of technologies to analyse email body, subject and header content as well as text within Microsoft Office attachments. Protecting your business from risk and ensuring customer confidence.

Your challenge: MessageLabs hosted Email Content Control filter: Results:
Reducing data loss through email Scans email messages using rules your organisation creates Confidential, sensitive, and proprietary material remain inside your organization
Protecting employees from unwanted or inappropriate content Scans, detects, controls, and blocks messages and attachments Inappropriate content does not reach your network
Enforcing acceptable usage policies Allows administrators to determine required level of sensitivity and actions to be applied and to create lists of approved senders and recipients Policies can be enforced
Ensuring that everything is working Delivers one-click and scheduled reporting You can have confidence in the service’s effectiveness, with reports to prove it


As with all MessageLabs products, our Hosted Email Content Control Filter includes 24x7x365 support.

How our Email Content Filter Works

Email Content Control Information Exchange



  • All emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centres worldwide

  • Each email message is scanned to assess its compliance with your acceptable usage policy, local rules and specific requirements

  • Any email that triggers a rule is subjected to a range of possible actions, such as ‘block/delete’ and ‘redirect to administrator’

  • All email that doesn’t trigger a rule is permitted to pass

  • Reports summarising data collected and actions taken by the service can be easily generated

Pricing- Email Content Control Service

All MessageLabs services are based on a per user, per month subscription, plus a one-off minimal set-up fee.

You simply pay a fixed monthly cost based on the number of users connected. Each service can be purchased separately or you can bundle multiple services to provide complete security protection.

All pricing quotes are individually tailored for each client’s specific requirements and MessageLabs offers discounts for both scale and multiple services.

Next Steps- Email Content Control Service

In order to implement our Email Content Filter service you must already be using or purchase our Email Anti-Virus or Email Anti-Spam filter service. Our Email Content Control or Email Image Control Filter services can then be activated for an additional small monthly fee to the existing service. Content Control can also be used to activate our Policy Based Email Encryption to encrypt messages according to organisation-defined rules.

Take advantage of our free trial service today or contact our sales consultants for more information.

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