Digital Confidence Announces a Server-Based Metadata Removal Solution

April 20, 2009 - PRLog -- Digital Confidence, the leading provider of data leakage prevention (DLP), hidden data / metadata removal, and privacy software solutions, today announced MailValve, a server-based automatic hidden data & metadata removal solution for organizations.

MailValve sits on the SMTP pipe and removes hidden data from the attachments of each and every email sent from the organization according to a centrally set rules, thus enabling organizations to enforce an organization-wide hidden data removal policy to prevent accidental confidential and private data leakage, without the need for user intervention.

Powered by Digital Confidence DataDistiller Engine, MailValve is able to remove 33 types of hidden data from 14 file types, including Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice.org / StarOffice documents, PDF documents, and popular image and media file types such as JPEG, PNG, AVI, and WAV. MailValve can remove hidden data from files even if they are compressed within ZIP files.

MailValve joins a successful line of hidden data removal products which consist of ConfidentSend, a metadata removal addon for Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird email clients, and BatchPurifier, a batch metadata removal tool.

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About Digital Confidence
Digital Confidence is the leading provider of data leakage prevention (DLP), hidden data / metadata removal, and privacy software solutions to individuals and organizations of all sizes, from small and medium business, to large-scale enterprises.

Contact Information
Digital Confidence Ltd.
7 Pinhas Rosen Street, Suite 12
Tel Aviv 69512, Israel
Phone: +972-3-6471367
E-mail: info@digitalconfidence.com
Web: http://www.digitalconfidence.com