Government organizations face some of the most complex and conflicting IT requirements of any organization. Privacy and freedom of information, accountability and auditing, security and rapid response, scalability, and strict specifications are all mandated. System cost and return on investment can fuel media attention and public debate.
Government organizations throughout the world are also substantial employers of public servants and as such are often under greater scrutiny than commercial counterparts. The governmental agency is often required to demonstrate a higher degree of protection and management control of staff and government and citizen information.
WebMarshal, MailMarshal and Marshal Endpoint Security enable simple and powerful policy control with minimal administrative involvement while providing maximum protection for employees.
Marshal has extensive experience in developing solutions for government agencies and departments. MailMarshal SMTP and WebMarshal are widely used because of their flexibility, security, ease of configuration, reporting ability and value for money.
Marshal provides a range of solutions that provide specific benefits for government agencies.
Secure Email
Marshal has worked directly with various governments to help shape standards for email encryption. Marshal solutions comply with these standards, ultimately making Marshal solutions some of the most flexible, easy to manage and scalable encryption systems in the world.
Secure Endpoints
Marshal can also ensure that sensitive public data is not removed from the network by, for example, disgruntled employees. Marshal Endpoint Security protects government agencies from accidental or deliberate data leakage via USB sticks and other mobile storage devices at the endpoint.
High Availability and Performance
Enforcement of Acceptable Use Policies
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Whitepapers
Government agencies require reliable, enterprise-class redundancy and performance. Marshal solutions are highly scalable and offer very high availability and unsurpassed performance. This guarantees that high levels of service to the public and other agencies can be maintained at all times.
As public-facing organizations, government agencies set high standards for professionalism and communications for their staff. Incidents involving government staff using Internet access to browse pornography or share racist jokes are embarrassing, scandalous and can threaten citizen, local and national security. MailMarshal and WebMarshal can assist you in complying with relevant directives, protocols, and regulations governing what material can be sent or viewed. Marshal solutions not only enforce and manage your acceptable use policies; they safeguard your agency's reputation and professionalism against defamation and scandals.
With Marshal, you can control language (profanity, racism, sexism etc); Internet access (pornography, games, gambling, etc), email attachments (MP3s, video, executables and games etc) and what files can be taken off or put on the network at the endpoint. So you can set high standards and back these up with the most complete enforcement technology available.
Flexible Security
Government security requirements can be highly varied in different countries - and even between departments of the same government - but there is always the need for flexibility. Whether it is defining different security access levels for a range of users or managing wide area government networks from a central location and allowing regional policy variations, Marshal solutions can adapt to fit your needs.
Marshal solutions can work directly with Active Directory, LDAP, Novell eDirectory, and custom user groups. Email and Web access policies can be controlled for groups and individuals, or across the entire organization.
Military Applications
The nature of military operations requires high degrees of security and usage monitoring. Sensitive information must remain secure.
MailMarshal can manage incoming and outgoing email according to privilege levels, keywords and phrases. This provides military and government agencies with powerful control over what can be said or not said in emails.
Marshal Endpoint Security prevents accidental or deliberate data leakage, by blocking users from taking sensitive data off the network using mobile storage media such as a USB stick.
Regulatory Compliance
As publicly funded bodies, government agencies must show a degree of competence, integrity and value-for-money above that expected from commercial ventures. Marshal solutions help you to comply with these requirements.
Retention and Archiving
Marshal solutions are designed to record all email and Internet activity. Detailed reports, activity logs and individual emails can be archived to maintain a permanent record if required.
Reporting
MailMarshal and WebMarshal deliver easy to understand operational and management reports in both tabular and graphical format.
Marshal's Security Reporting Center solution takes reporting to another level, providing combined reports on network edge devices such as firewalls.
Scalability
Marshal solutions are routinely used by organizations with 100,000 or more users. MailMarshal is designed for enterprise-scale deployments on multiple servers in various geographic locations. Both MailMarshal and WebMarshal can also be centrally managed. Whether your agency is local, national or international, Marshal solutions can be deployed to fit your needs.
Customization
Marshal’s content security solutions are highly customizable and very flexible. Marshal can help to define your policy and design the rules to help you enforce it. For details of the policy elements and enforcement options available, please refer to the documentation on each product.
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The above examples provide an insight into how Marshal solutions can be applied to government use. To discuss how we can help with the specific requirements of your organization, please contact us or your local Marshal representative.
