Sessionwall content security is being used by
financial institutions around the world including the World Bank, the Bank of China and
other well-known banks to protect their networks from intrusions and from inappropriate
network usage. Through Sessionwall's content security capabilities, they are also
protecting themselves from inappropriate communications and keeping track of e-mail
communications as part of an overall litigation protection program.
Litigation protection is both the
review and recording of Internet, intranet and extranet communications that is done in
order to avoid litigation or taking it one step further, the documentation of the
communications parties and content in the event of litigation. In the case of the banking
industry, some banks are using Sessionwall's content security to scan and log all e-mails
to be archived for future audits. Other banks are now required to content screen and
subsequently save all e-mail communications associated with communications between
employee and clients as well as internal communications. Sessionwall's content security
provides the unique ability to capture and log e-mails without adding any network
overheads or delays and provides an easy way to search and view the e-mails logged. The
e-mails can be captured based on specific to or from addresses as well as by content
screening.
Some banks use Sessionwall to
identify and block intrusions, detect and block malicious Java/ActiveX applets, detect viruses both entering or being passed around their
network, and to block network communications to inappropriate locations. These are
standard Sessionwall content security services.
Other banks are taking advantage
of Sessionwall's ability to identify and block inappropriate network usage in
terms of accessing inappropriate websites. Using Sessionwall’s list of over 200,000
categorized URLs, these
institutions first identify the types of sites that their employees are visiting and then
implement and enforce web site access policies using Sessionwall content security either
to alert the appropriate person within the bank if an infraction is encountered or simply
block the access.
The common denominators for the
selection of Sessionwall content security are the ease of installation, the immediacy of
tangible results and its unobtrusive nature in terms of adding no network changes or
system overheads.
Content Security and Litigation Protection
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