Offers archiving service which takes pre-filtered email, stores it for seven years, and makes it available through an on-line search engine.

INSL, a security and network service provider, has released a new version of its email content management service, SpheriQ, to help its customers comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act and the Basel II Accord.

SpheriQ is an enterprise-level email content management solution that incorporates anti-virus, anti-spam and content management tools, under the control of a policy management engine. According to the company, SpheriQ's new features enable organisations both to enforce internal policies and meet external regulatory demands. It pre-filters and sorts inbound and outbound emails before archiving, applies policies for groups and individuals within the organisation and offers search and reporting tools.

Existing SpheriQ functionality protects users from spam and other unsolicited and inappropriate content. It also filters according to attachment file type and size. The system also logs the mails crossing the customer's network and provides an on-line search facility. Archiving service is offered which takes pre-filtered email, stores it for up to seven years, and makes it available to authorised users through a comprehensive and powerful on-line search engine.

"Large organisations typically transfer many millions of bytes of information via email every day. Monitoring and auditing the content of messages and attachments is increasingly a compliance requirement, as is ensuring that information has not been destroyed or altered. Compliance may also require companies to demonstrate that a message was in fact sent or received, particularly as email is inevitably used to transfer critical messages and documents.  We have developed this suite of filtering, monitoring, archiving and search services to remove the pain of compliance," said Ken Watt, director of INSL.