Hmm, I suppose this type of monitoring is one method of dealing with company content that might seem to be ‘inappropriate’ to be shown to the public eye. Personally, I am concerned about something like this being a little too iron-clad for most needs. Then again, companies do need to protect themselves from any potential liability.

Between Sarbanes-Oxley and sexual harassment suits, the enterprise is more concerned than ever about what its employees say or send in e-mails and blogs.

During the Demo@15 conference on Monday afternoon, three companies unveiled products that monitor messages to detect anything from inappropriate language to sending out proprietary corporate data.

WhatCounts demonstrated BlogUnit Series, a 1U hardware device plus software that manages corporate blogs before they are published. The blog software is centrally controlled and can be linked to both LDAP and Radius servers to control approvals before publishing, content viewing, and broadcasting.

Versioning and workflow control also allows content managers to roll back to previous versions of a post and maintain an audit trail of all versions.

BlogUnit will be available March 1, priced at around $10,000.

Since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, archiving e-mails has also become almost a requirement for any publicly traded company.

Fortiva introduced its Fortiva Archiving and Compliance Suite. The e-mail archiving service is a so-called hybrid solution. The hosted service also includes a behind-the-firewall appliance to capture and encrypt e-mails before they are sent to the Fortiva online service. Users may define their own archiving retention policies using a Web interface.