NemX SecurExchange

NemX announced today SecurExchange for Microsoft Exchange 2007. The company claims to be "the first vendor to offer a full
suite of rich, powerful and flexible email compliance functionality for the Exchange 2007 platform."

SecurExchange is an important offering, particularly in light of the growing importance of searching email and other electronic content for e-discovery and content scanning purposes. For example, SecurExchange can scan emails for concepts related to certain words instead of just the words themselves. As noted in the company's press release, when searching for the concept of "Confidential", the system will place greater weight on the word when used in the footer of a document than if it is used in the body text. SecurExchange will also scan strings of numbers not only for the presence of a 15- or 16-digit number that might indicate a credit card number being sent in clear text, but will also perform a checksum to verify the validity of that number.

Our research has found that email volumes are growing at roughly 30% per year. That means that the volume of email sent or stored will be roughly 3.7 times greater in five years than today. That will make the importance of tools that can intelligently scan email content ever more important.