Email Image Filter
MessageLabs Email Image Control service incorporates sophisticated image composition analysis to scan all
incoming and outgoing email and email attachments to identify, control and block inappropriate images such
as pornography from entering or leaving your network, Helping your business enforce an appropriate
acceptable usage policy, protecting your business from some of the legal implications of email misuse
brand damage, and lost productivity.
Our Email Image Filter complements our
Email Content Control service
which ensures email confidentiality, while also working seamlessly with our
Email Anti-Virus and
Anti-Spam service to provide added levels of email security.
Why use our Email Image Control Filter?
Our hosted Email Image Control service enables you to monitor and control the images contained in all
incoming and outgoing email communications. It’s easy to setup and maintain and automatically scans and
detects potentially offensive images attached to or embedded within emails and within Microsoft Office
attachments.
| Challenge |
MessageLabs Email Image Filter |
Benefit |
| Protecting employees from unwanted or inappropriate images |
Scans, detects, controls, and blocks messages and attachments |
Pornographic and other inappropriate images do 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 are enforced |
| Quality & Performance |
Offers Service Level Agreements (SLAs) |
100% email delivery, low latency, 100% service availability |
| Ensuring that everything is working |
Delivers one-click and scheduled reporting |
You can have confidence in the service’s effectiveness, with reports to support it |
As with all MessageLabs products, our Hosted Email Image Filter includes
24x7x365 support
How our Email Image Filter Works
MessageLabs Email Image Control Service employs multi-layered filtering technologies and image signaturing
to give you a tool to help enforce acceptable usage policy.
Image composition analysis harnesses techniques for facial recognition, body positioning and texture and
flesh tone analysis to generate results that are processed by a complex scoring system to block or pass
images. This approach is especially effective at detecting pornographic images.
- All incoming and outgoing emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide
- Images embedded in or attached to an email are scanned to assess their compliance with your acceptable usage 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
Next Steps- Email Image Control Service
In order to implement our Email Image Filter service you must already be using or purchase our Email
Anti-Virus or Anti-Spam filter service. Our Email Image Control or Email Content Control Filter services
can then be activated for a small additional monthly fee.
Take advantage of our
free trial service today or
contact our sales consultants for more information.