I have covered the people-side of the email risk equation in posts about a Miranda Warning for Email and a recent Seattle Times article about thinking before you send. Even today via Fortune there is a story on how E-mail may be hazardous to your career.

To illustrate what I mean by self-review, I am attaching what our SenderConfirm product provides the sender of an email when a policy is triggered. It functions like spell-check – if an email triggers on a pre-defined set of rules, the message is held and the sender engaged to help clarify.

Call it a moment of reflection.

Yes, this is a pretty shameless plug for a MessageGate product, but it was designed based on what the market told us and the workplace realities of email dependence.

There is no one technology solution that will magically change end-user habits overnight, but an approach like SenderConfirm gets at the root cause of the problem (people’s actions) and incorporates business realities like the lack of interest in setting up an invasive/expensive monitoring infrastructure and/or disrupting the flow of email traffic.

Trust the employee to do the right thing. One thing we have seen over and over is that 99%+ of “breaches” are not the result of malicious intent…just people trying to get their jobs done and not focusing on usage rules or information safeguard policies.