Many companies have formal policies that govern generally acceptable use and content for corporate email systems.  However, the mere existence of corporate policies does not ensure compliance.  Policies without proactive measures for enforcement are little more than window dressing.  Email content control solutions provide real-time scanning of inbound, outbound and, in a few cases, internal email traffic.

This whitepaper explains what the administrative issues are with managing email content control solutions and describes an alternative approach based upon independent, reusable policy elements that provide hierarchical “policy” management and automatic change propagation without the associated administrative burden.