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Rollout: Reconnex's iGuard 2600: Page 3 of 3

Reconnex helped us discover the problem: Although iGuard was logging the post traffic, it wasn't correctly interpreting the MIME encoding used to send the attachment to the Web form. The process of transferring using the site was the essentially the same as e-mail transfer--yet, during e-mail transfer, iGuard recognized and interpreted the MIME type, recognized the .zip file, extracted its contents, and analyzed the Excel spreadsheet to detect the leaked SSNs. IGuard's historical capture helped our troubleshooting and let us extract sample data to send to Reconnex. It developed a temporary patch, having iGuard reinspect data uploaded over the Web at fixed intervals. The fix has been integrated into the latest update.

Despite this bug, iGuard presents an attractive option for organizations interested in monitoring and securing the data that leaves the network.