Posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Companies still monitoring email manually, survey finds
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A survey on outbound email and data loss prevention found that 41% of U.S.-based companies with 20,000 or more employees say they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound email. Overall, more than 29% of U.S. companies surveyed employ such staff.
“I am not completely surprised that some companies are using humans to inspect email. But I doubt they are inspecting all outbound emails,” Wang said, adding that companies could be hiring a person to inspect the results and exceptions alerted from auto content scanning.
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