Sigaba upgrade secures outbound e-mail

Messaging security vendor Sigaba last week released an upgrade to its SigabaNet gateway software,offering companies better control over e-mail that leave their organizations.

SigabaNet Version 4.3 includes a number of enhancements designed to help companies ensure that outbound e-mails are compliant with federal regulations or corporate guidelines, and keep proprietary information, such as intellectual property, inside the company, says Nancy Chou, senior vice president of marketing with Sigaba.

The new version includes templates that contain tens of thousands of words, codes and phrases, according to company officials. By filtering outbound e-mail through these templates, the software scans for clues indicating an e-mail includes information that must be secured, such as data related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations for the healthcare industry, officials say.

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Messaging security vendor Sigaba last week released an upgrade to its SigabaNet gateway software,offering companies better control over e-mail that leave their organizations.

SigabaNet Version 4.3 includes a number of enhancements designed to help companies ensure that outbound e-mails are compliant with federal regulations or corporate guidelines, and keep proprietary information, such as intellectual property, inside the company, says Nancy Chou, senior vice president of marketing with Sigaba.

The new version includes templates that contain tens of thousands of words, codes and phrases, according to company officials. By filtering outbound e-mail through these templates, the software scans for clues indicating an e-mail includes information that must be secured, such as data related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations for the healthcare industry, officials say.

Once an outbound e-mail is flagged for securing, SigabaNet encrypts the message and separately authenticates users, Chou says.

SigabaNet can secure outbound e-mails containing information related to regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley acts. The product also can flag e-mails that might contain intellectual property or inappropriate content and block them before they leave the organization, officials say.

This release also allows companies to brand all customer-bound outgoing e-mails with a company's logo or other insignia, officials say.

SigabaNet is the company's platform upon which its products - Secure Email, Secure Statements and Secure Instant Messaging - are based. SigabaNet includes gateway software that enforces preset policies, key services for managing encryption and authentication services. Typical pricing for one of the products based on SigabaNet is $23,000, officials say.

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