Email Image Control
MessageLabs Email Image Filter uses sophisticated Image Composition Analysis to identify, control and block inappropriate images such as pornography contained in all email and email 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 detect pornographic or other inappropriate image content | Protects employees, aids enforcement of acceptable use policies, and safeguards regulatory compliance, corporate reputation and productivity |
Fully configurable, extremely accurate ICA scanning engine | Allows administrators to determine required level of sensitivity and actions to be applied |
Scanning of all images attached to and embedded in emails | Prevention of email misuse and total protection for your employees |
Fully customizable lists of approved senders and recipients | Permits administrators to specify internal and external users who can send and/or receive emails without being scanned |
Dashboard, summary, detailed and scheduled reporting | Provides visibility, accountability and confidence in the service’s effectiveness |
MessageLabs Email Image Control Service employs multi-layered filtering technologies and state-of-the-art image signaturing to give you complete control over all images contained in your email communications. Sophisticated ICA harnesses facial recognition, body positioning, texture analysis and flesh tone analysis techniques to generate results that are processed by a complex scoring system. The final score produced by this system dictates whether an image is blocked or allowed to pass. This approach is especially effective at detecting pornographic images.
- All incoming and outgoing emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centres worldwide
- Every image embedded in or attached to an email is scanned to assess its compliance with your acceptable use policy, local rules and specific requirements
- Any email which triggers a rule is subjected to a range of possible actions, such as ‘block/delete’ and ‘redirect to administrator’
- All email which doesn’t trigger a rule is permitted to pass, with no noticeable delay
- Reports summarizing data collected and actions taken by the service can be generated easily
Advantages of Email Image Control
Your brand and reputation can be severely damaged if pornographic or other inappropriate images enter or leave your network. Productivity can be eroded and time wasted. Failure to comply with obscenity and harassment regulations can lead to substantial legal penalties and loss of business.
Protecting your business from unauthorised email images involves deploying the best available technology with full customer support and unparalleled service levels. MessageLabs Email Image Control Service does just that, and there are very attractive advantages of using the service:
- Unmatched accuracy in blocking inappropriate and pornographic images, based on multi-layered filtering techniques
- Policy enforcement and legal compliance with industry leading image filtering, allowing you to control what images people send and receive via email.
- Managed services frees up your IT staff to focus their attention on more strategic initiatives
- 24x7x365 Customer support in an extensive range of languages, worldwide.
- Quick and easy setup with a predictable and affordable total cost of ownership. No ongoing updates and maintenance to mange.