IronPort filters help companies stay compliant with regulations Messaging security appliance maker IronPort this week announced an upgrade to its outbound e-mail filters that help companies stay compliant with regulations such as HIPAA and Graham-Leech-Bliley.Available now, the IronPort Compliance Filters include a preset collection of policies that can be immediately deployed to help protect organizations from unauthorized dissemination of information over e-mail, according to company officials. The filters use a multi-category pattern matching algorithm to find sensitive information in outbound e-mails and act on them accordingly.The filters include HIPAA lexicons from PostX that flag outbound communications containing phrases that may need to be encrypted or blocked all together, as per the healthcare regulation. The filters are installed on IronPort’s e-mail security appliances and quickly scan outbound communications without creating delays, officials say. Administrators can configure the filters to automatically encrypt outbound e-mails that require it using TLS, or integrate with encryption systems from PostX and PGP, officials say.The IronPort Compliance Filters are available for free to customers of IronPort’s e-mail security appliances. Software DevelopmentTechnology IndustryCareersSecuritySmall and Medium Business