Years ago we purchased Metadact to prevent accidental sharing of client confidential information via metadata in attachments, and we wanted to enforce metadata removal policies across the organization. We had an excellent experience with Metadact, as it was easy to implement and our users have found it simple and easy to use. Now that our lawyers have become more mobile, it’s a natural progression for us to move t ... read more

Mark A. Sportack Mark A. Sportack
Chief Information Officer

Metadact-e

Patented server-based document metadata cleaning

We have all heard the horror stories of information hidden in metadata accidentally leaking out of businesses, resulting in embarrassing, dangerous and very costly, easily-avoided issues. According to a survey conducted by Litéra, 96% of the respondents access their business e-mail from a mobile device, and 86% of them forward e-mails with attachments. Since 40% of all e-mails are opened by a mobile device or access mechanisms such as webmail, and 24% of all business e-mails sent each working day have files attached , that means that even for companies with server-based metadata removal, 10% of all e-mails going out of a company have unscrubbed attachments.

Metadact®-e reduces financial risk and protects your company’s most valuable asset – its reputation.  The patented, enterprise-grade, server-based metadata solution previews, cleans and converts documents in Outlook, Web Access, tablets and smartphones, as well as desktop-based documents.  Whether it is a Microsoft Office, PDF, image or ZIP file, Metadact-e will make sure all the metadata is removed, including hidden information such as Excel Formulas, PPT Notes, Comments, Embedded E-mails and PDF Properties, which are often the highest risk.

Reputation management and risk reduction

  • Prevents the disclosure of client-confidential and other sensitive information, thus reducing financial and reputation risk
  • Protects content integrity

Save time

  • Admin - “Set it and forget it” in 3 hours with assisted set-up, administrative tools and responsive support team.  Easily scale as needed.
  • User – Transparent cleaning and ability to immediately get back to work after hitting send

Enforce corporate standards

  • Cleans without user intervention and converts to PDF/A
  • Accurate Sent Items speed and improve quality during audits and discovery
  • Ensures compliance control
Enterprise-grade, server-based metadata management
Metadata management on the server offering protection for all users, including webmail, tablet, smart phone, and desktop users.

Clean and convert files
Clean key Microsoft® Office, PDF, Image and ZIP files and convert to PDF/PDF-A files.  Clean more types of metadata (such as Microsoft Excel Formulas, Embedded E-mails, Comments, track changes and PDF properties) than with any other server-based metadata removal product.

Intelligent content clean
With “Intelligent Content Clean,” replace text in Microsoft Word documents that matches a specific pattern.  For example, identification numbers (state ID, Social Security, or National Insurance numbers) can be replaced with anonymous characters such as “XXX-XX-XXXX.”  After processing, you can see a detailed report of every occurrence.

Admin tools so you can “set it and forget it” and easily manage the system
Saves administrative time with quick and easy set-up and administrative tools.  Administrators can also view simple reports to distribute the processing load and optimize servers.

Enterprise-grade, scalable architecture
Fully scalable architecture for any size organization and environment that supports Failover (redundancy) and Load Balancing (faster processing).

Accurate sent items
Sent items and archived e-mails reflect what the recipient receives (i.e., cleaned attachments in Exchange 2007 and 2010 environments).

Integrates with active directory
Active Directory database leveraged for user and/or group cleaning policy settings, allowing administrators to easily maintain the system and harden the perimeter.

Creation of custom policies and settings
Control of individual user’s ability to change or override corporate policies and settings.

Administration choice of types of metadata to clean
Administrators can allow users or groups granular control to override specific cleaning settings and/or exclude documents from cleaning altogether.

User Alerts
Alerts user when action is required (ex: Track Changes are detected and user must decide to send them, a password protected document requires unlocking, etc.)

Viewing of detailed reports via the web
Ability to review metadata detected in documents on the Metadact-e website; see types of metadata removed and number of instances; balance load and optimize servers with simple reports on latency, message size, number of attachments, etc.

Preview metadata
View the metadata present in any document in detail, as well as a summary of the “risk” level of the content based on multiple variables, including metadata quantity, type, and location.

Desktop and Batch cleaning
Clean desktop documents (from document management systems or local folder) individually or in batch process mode using optional “On Demand” functionality.

Returns desktop to user immediately
On-the-server processing, allowing users to proceed to the next task as processing occurs.

Outstanding support
Free consulting services by highly qualified Exchange and metadata experts provided to design optimal configuration based on a fully-assisted installation.  Implementation kits containing user and installation guides, quick references, training videos, and sample e-mail communications; outstanding support staff with excellent help desk tools and fast turn-around.

Exclusion list
Apply specific actions and create exclusion lists for select types of metadata such as bookmarks, fields, VBA variables, and custom properties.
  • Autonomy iManage (WorkSite, DeskSite, FileSite, and MailSite)
  • OpenText
  • DM 5
  • DocsOpen
  • PowerDocs
  • WORLDOX
  • NetDocuments
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Multiple servers and virtual machines recommended
  • Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, 2008, and 2008R2
  • Microsoft Office XP, 2003, 2007, or 2010
  • Microsoft SQL 2005 or 2008
  • 2.0+ GHZ processor
  • 8 GB RAM, 16 GB recommended
  • 5 GB available hard drive space
  • Net framework 3.5 (or above)
  • Internet Information Service 6 (or above)
  • Metadact-e is sold pursuant to a license from Litéra Technologies, LLC for U.S. Patent #’s 7,895,276 and 8,060,575
  • Metadact® is a registered trademark of Litéra Corp.
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