Overview
In today's business environment, E-mail has become the predominant method of communication. There are about 200 million corporate E-mail users and over half a million E-mail servers in the world today and these figures are growing quickly. Many times there is need for sensitive and confidential messages and associated documents to be sent via E-mail. Unfortunately, once the E-mail is sent and leaves your outbox, you relinquish control of that message and the associated documents. In fact, those messages and documents can easily end up in inappropriate or competitive hands. Today, anyone can send, copy, print or forward E-mail whenever they want. Fortune Magazine even wrote an article entitled "Do You Know Who's Reading Your Email????"
E-mailed information is being saved for years by its recipients and it is unpredictable as to how this information will be used in the future. It could be forwarded in whole or in part to other recipients who should not have the information.
This information is routinely copied and printed for personal files to protect peoples' political and employment future.
Whether you are in government, engineering, a creative profession, information technology, legal, finance, human resources, or marketing, you deal with sensitive or confidential information that must be confidentially transmitted for review and approval.
Wouldn't it solve many problems if the distribution of information in E-mail and attachments could be controlled and the contents and attachment within the E-mail could only be viewed and not printed, copied or forwarded? Wouldn't it be great if you could be certain your E-mail was going no farther than you expect.
What is EPIC?
When you send an e-mail today, the receiver of that e-mail has complete control of what is done with the information in that e-mail as well as the attachments that are included. What this means is that the e-mail you may have sent in confidence can be modified inappropriately, forwarded to people who shouldn't have this information and kept for long periods of time and then later used for unsuitable purposes.
In other words, the receiver has all the rights over your information. EPIC (E-mail Personal Information Containment) allows you to set the rules as to how your e-mail and associated attachments are used by the receiver of your e-mail. Basically, you should be able to 1) determine who can print, forward and read privileged communications and attachments 2) determine how long the e-mail and attachments are available for review and 3) keep control over your privileged e-mail and documents even after it leaves your outbox.
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