While extraordinarily valuable, email, instant messaging, text messaging, social networking, and other tools pose enormous risk if they are not monitored or managed properly. A vast majority of data leaks are caused by inadvertent actions on the part of employees which can lead an organization to lose trade secrets, quash an acquisition, embarrassment, heavy fines and more. Therefore, managing outbound content must be viewed as a primary focusing and organization’s security arsenal.

In this paper, explore the critical need to manage outbound content sent using email, instant messages, text messages, social networks as well as a growing number of other platforms from which damaging content can be delivered. In addition, uncover 6 essential steps to take to mitigate the risks of sending sensitive, confidential or inappropriate content out of an organization.