A recent study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests children on YouTube are just three clicks away from playing videos featuring nudity, violence and other adult content—even if they’re watching clips from such G rated fare as Sesame Street or Dora the Explorer. The culprit, Kaspersky says, is the list of suggested videos that automatically appears alongside the video that’s currently playing.
It’s terribly worrisome. But is it surprising?
For many of us, accidentally stumbling upon pornographic content can be a daily occurrence. Some of the most innocuous Google searches can unexpectedly produce the most disturbing images imaginable. And while we know enough not to click on the spam in our junk folders, usually the headers alone are far more than we ever care to see.
Of course, we worry most about the children. But adult content in the workplace creates its own special set of distractions, liabilities and other headaches. Even security is a concern since pornographic material often comes coupled with malware, phishing and other scams.
It’s something Sendmail has been addressing for sometime through our Enterprise Anti-Spam and Sentrion URL Filtering Applications, which prevent adult and potentially harmful emails from ever touching your messaging infrastructure. These apps can be combined with our Sentrion Application Store Partner Image Analyzer to create a strong line of defense against both pornographic images and video.
Image Analyzer is an innovative piece of technology that works by isolating areas of the image that fall within the range of human skin tones while evaluating size, curvature and edge for a highly accurate compositional analysis. It works with all our Sentrion email routing and security products for seamless management of all your filters, policies and message handling. And it’s highly customizable: scanning thresholds, size constraints and engine settings are all adjustable.
Once messages have been deemed offensive, they can be forwarded for HR review, stripped of content, blocked altogether, and much more to prevent and address both a user’s deliberate and non-desired exchange of adult content.
It’s just one more way Sendmail Sentrion works to make email work…for you.