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Posted on 18 August 2008 by James Blake

I have been working flat out on some new white papers for Mimecast and the first of which, Data Leak...

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Category: Compliance, Data Leak Prevention


Posted on 8 August 2008 by James Blake

At Mimecast we recently commissioned a survey by eMedia that contained a question about their ability to detect the leakage of sensitive data outside of their organisations by e-mail.  We included this question as other...

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Category: Compliance, Data Leak Prevention, Retention


Posted on 22 May 2008 by James Blake

Auto-complete can be your worst enemy. How many times have you started to type an email address which Outlook conveniently completes it for you into the wrong address?

The Conservative Party, the official opposition of the United Kingdom government, are certainly not a fan of this feature. They accidentally sent the name, address, telephone numbers and voting intentions of 8,000 users to an Isle of Man based radio station at lunchtime yesterday.

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Category: Data Leak Prevention