US software vendor Workshare has unveiled an edition of its metadata-scrubbing software with much broader applicability.
Workshare Protect 3.0 wipes potentially confidential information from Microsoft Office documents. It can also snoop through Word documents for potentially damaging information.
Protect 3.0 adds cleansing of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint to its earlier skills with Word, integrates with Lotus Notes and Novell's GroupWise email clients to strip out metadata from attached files from within those applications.
Protect's earlier incarnations only supported Microsoft Outlook.
Metadata is the info hidden inside Office documents, such as tracked changes, comments, hyperlinks, and footnotes.
Unless metadata is stripped out of documents, such information can be easily viewed by others, leading to anything from embarrassment to disclosure of enterprise secrets.
Protect 3.0 can also convert documents to Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) application.
It includes policy settings that let administrators set how and what metadata is scrubbed automatically before documents are sent to internal or external recipients.
Workshare Protect 3.0 is available now, with its per-user pricing based on volume, said the US-based vendor. A trial version can be downloaded from the Workshare site.
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