Solutions for Financial Services

Financial services sector protect their data with MessageLabs

Data security services such as email encryption and email content control help in preventing data leaks of confidential information. Email continuity services ensures uninterrupted operations which are essential for companies in the finance sector. MessageLabs can help firms rise to the challenge and, at the same time, simplify IT management.

Do you have concerns with:

• Safeguarding commercial secrets, such as price-sensitive information during mergers and acquisitions, or private personal data such as medical information in insurance companies.
  
• Complying with ever-increasing privacy regulations, including the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, the UK’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, the Commonwealth Privacy Act and the US’s recently-amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
  
• Regulatory compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (for US-listed firms and their advisers) or regulations from the UK’s FSA.
  
• Protecting against disruption and security risks of malware, especially spyware and targeted, bespoke Trojans.
  
• Payment Card Industry compliance – not leaking credit card information.
  
• Maximising productivity by eliminating security-related downtime, interruptions and spam.
  

MessageLabs data security and compliance solutions

MessageLabs is your perfect partner. We’re the market leaders in providing fully managed, data security and compliance solutions that ensure the quality of threat protection and level of confidence you need.

Our solutions include:

Email and web security.
The best possible protection against email- and web-borne viruses, spyware and other malware, plus spam filtering and email encryption.

Email and web compliance.
Blocks access to inappropriate websites and email content. Scans outgoing email for data confidential content. Provides searchable, secure email archiving.

Business continuity.
MessageLabs Email Continuity service allows users to send and receive emails even if company email servers aren’t available.

MessageLabs data security and compliance solutions

MessageLabs solutions will deliver the following benefits to organisations within the financial services sector:

Feature	Benefits
Prevent data leaks	Encryption ensures that sensitive email is protected as it travels over the internet. Content control can prevent users emailing sensitive information without permission, for example scanning outbound emails for 16 digit credit card numbers.
Ensure compliance with company policies	MessageLabs lets you create policies around email archiving, content control (e.g. blocking pornographic images) and security (e.g. encrypting emails to certain recipients) to comply with regulations and minimise risks.
Improve productivity	No more virus problems thanks to an SLA for 100 percent prevention of email viruses. Less spam because MessageLabs blocks 99 percent of it with a 0.0003 percent rate of false positives. Email Continuity ensures that staff have access to their email even if company servers have crashed.
Simplify IT management	MessageLabs outsourced services require little or no on-site hardware or maintenance. They operate in the internet cloud from 14 data centres worldwide for maximum reliability and uptime.
Implement security best practices	MessageLabs has full ISO17799 (BS7799) accreditation, certifying that we operate a comprehensive set of controls that comprise best practice in information security.