Image Analyzer

Image Scanning Engine for MailMarshal

Image Analyzer  detects and classifies pornographic image content. It is designed to automatically scan and sort images entering your organization via email into either an offensive and pornographic category or a normal and acceptable category.

Image Analyzer can help protect your employees, customers and suppliers from exposure to inappropriate and illegal content, can reduce and even remove your organizations legal liability,and can provide you with a better understanding of how your email system is comforming with Acceptable Use Policies.

Together, Marshal and Image Analyzer are enabling customers to add anti-porn protection to the powerful MailMarshal SMTP content security filtering solution.

The Business Issue

"25% of UK companies have dismissed an employee for misusing the internet at work and 69 per cent of cases were linked to internet pornography, a new study has revealed."

With the majority of pornographic images being spread via email during business hours, and with recent employee dismissals from companies such as Orange, Merrill Lynch, Royal Sun Alliance, Ford, Dell and Hewlett Packard, pornography in the work place is now a common reason for disciplinary action as well as exposing organizations to legal liability.

How Image Analyzer helps you

Image Analyzer provides an effective email scanning solution that delivers protection for employees and employers, protection from legal liability and company reputation and increased productivity; protection which offers organizations a significant return on investment which far outweighs the initial cost.

• Protect employers against staff departures due to offensive material - Employers are responsible for providing a safe working environment free from discrimination and harassment. Image Analyzer enables the MailMarshal solution to analyse images from all incoming and outgoing email and enforce policy to protect employees from being offended by pornographic images. This also prevents employees from transgressing Acceptable Usage Policy that can result in dismissal.

• Protect employers from legal proceedings - Corporations are legally responsible for the content on their network. Investing in Image Analyzer image scanner and using MailMarshal to enforce policy, organization are protecting employees from explicit images in the workplace, demonstrating that it takes seriously the issue of providing a safe work environment free from harassment and discrimination from pornography.

• Company reputation protected Many business reputations have been negatively affected in the media by pornographic image related dismissals. Organization's also risk offending customers and important business partners through sending inappropriate content via email. Implementing an Image Analyzer SMTP and MailMarshal solution significantly reduces this risk by preventing the spread of pornographic images via email.

How it works

The Image Analyzer solution Image Analyzer uses a sophisticated analytical process involving over 22,000 algorithms to determine reliably between pornographic and non pornographic content and is independently accredited to be 90-95% accurate.

It is also a fast solution. Image Analyzer is a multi-threaded application that Processes 20 images per second, providing enterprise class performance and scalability

Key Features

• Comprehensive, multi-faceted image analysis provides reliable and accurate results.
• Sophisticated, proprietary body and facial recognition algorithms.
• Fast, multi-threaded scanning resulting in real-time classification with no email delivery interruption.
• Complete integration with MailMarshal providing powerful policy options, including reporting and end-user quarantine release.

Sample Reports

Pornographic Image