A new tool made to detect unwanted images in business computers' email – including and especially child porn – will premiere at the Inbox/Outbox Exhibition in London June 22 to June 23, maker PixAlert announced June 17.
The tool will become part of version 3.1 of PixAlert Auditor and is designed to find porn in emails and other files swapped or stored around enterprise networks, according to PixAlert chief executive John Nolan.
“As most financial organizations now archive email communications to comply with new Corporate Governance legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, it is possible that they are inadvertently backing up and duplicating pedophile images,” Nolan said, announcing the new tool's coming premiere.
“By eliminating illicit images in the workplace and identifying the people responsible, PixAlert Auditor helps organizations and individual managers or directors to avoid corporate or personal litigation,” Nolan added.
PixAlert and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ran a recent survey showing more than 70 percent of British businesses have had to discipline workers for viewing porn on their workplace computers. The issue of porn on the job has become a rising concern among British and American businesses in recent weeks.
Nolan said businesses now don't know the depth of the risk they face from unwanted content invasion and "may be inadvertently breaking the law by storing and backing up child pornography."
PixAlert said the new tool is different than standard Web filtering because it can spot, eliminate, and block "unwanted images that get on to desktops or networks via any point of entry including email, memory sticks, laptops, digital cameras, scanners, CDs/DVDs, Wi-Fi, or 3G phones."
The tool also includes higher-speed image analysis to prevent months’ worth of manual auditing, helping businesses find unwanted content within less than a week at best. PixAlert also will provide urgent incident help, managed auditing services, acceptable computer use policy review assistance and enforcement, and auditing and real-time monitoring software.
“The rapid increase in digital devices along with email and multimedia messaging has made the problem of managing inappropriate and illegal images in the workplace a major challenge for IT and HR managers,” Nolan said.
