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Image Filtering & Assessment Costing Tool

An online Image Filtering & Assessment Costing Tool has been created to estimate the volume, cost and staff resources required in the assessment and processing of business emails (with suspicious image attachments) that have been stopped when using a corporate email ‘image-analysis / porn’ filtering system.

The on-line tool can be accessed from this page: Image Filtering & Assessment Costing Tool

The purposes of this tool is to allow business management to calculate the estimated volume of suspicious email messages that will be:

  • stopped by your ‘image-analysis / porn’ filter system as it may contain suspect pornographic images
  • redirected to an human ‘assessor’ to manually review the contents of these suspicious email messages
  • assessed to be a true positive (it does have pornographic content) or a false positive (it does not contain any inappropriate content)

…and to estimate the staff time needed:

  • for the nominated ‘Email Assessor’ to assess, review and process emails with suspicious content
  • for Human Resources to investigate and document the evidence required to process a formal disciplinary case – where an email incident contain pornographic content has been raised
  • for an IT System Administrator to investigate, to search for computer evidence, and to take all the relevant backups, and to produce the relevant documentation to support these formal disciplinary proceedings

Image Filtering & Cost Assessment Tool

The tool will report the estimated annual costs to process suspicious email message image attachments internally (in-house) and then use these annual cost to calculate the potential annual savings your organisation can make by outsourcing the processing and management of this suspicious email content to Dicontas.

Reduce your email monitoring costs by over 60% per year

Research has shown that the total cost of ownership (TCO) for monitoring 500 business email users will cost an average of nearly £60,000 per year. By outsourcing the assessment of identified suspicious email content to Dicontas, you can save reduce this TCO by 60% year on year. More… centralised email monitoring and content assessment services for business users of email filtering tools and managed services.

What is Dicontas about?

Dicontas provides a new generation of centralised email monitoring administration and email content assessment services for businesses that currently monitor their own email communications.

Dicontas provide unique outsourced services to allow organisations to safely and cost-efficiently outsource the heavy administration workload associated with the use of email monitoring and content filtering technology.

More info on Dicontas’s centralised email filtering administration services


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