Protect your firm against the

unintentional disclosure of Microsoft

Office metadata

iScrub is the leading metadata scrubber for the legal industry.

The growth of electronic document exchange has heightened

WHAT OUR CLIENTS

awareness that Microsoft Office files can contain "metadata"

ARE SAYING:

beyond their "printable" text. Unintentional disclosure can be

embarrassing or even raise malpractice concerns.

WHAT IS METADATA?

We have enjoyed working

Microsoft included many automated features in their applications

with Esquire Innovations, Inc.

to aid in the document production process. Unfortunately,

and have found iScrub to be

automation can leave electronic evidence of this process. These

include the identity of those who edited the document, the time

a solution that was easy to

and frequency of edits, commentary, the document template,

deploy and use. When looking

and other data employed to control the document's text and

for a metadata software to

format. In some circumstances, even deleted text remains part of a

provide our users we wanted

document's electronic file history. All of these elements combined

make up a document's metadata.

a tool that would not interfere

with our employee's daily

WHEN IS IT HARMFUL TO SHARE IT?

work patterns. iScrub is a

The metadata risks are minimal provided the electronic document

stays within a firm's electronic "walls. " Documents sent outside the

highly flexible application

firm walls require different levels of metadata cleaning based on

that provides the high level of

the intended recipient.

security we were looking for

WHAT ARE THE KEY STRATEGIES FOR METADATA CONTROL?

and seamless integration with

Educate your firm about metadata concerns and use a thorough

our e-mail system.

cleanup tool that publishes a clean copy of the document before it

is distributed outside the firm. iScrub's sophisticated programming

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removes the visible properties and cleans the difficult to reach file

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elements, such as the list of Past Authors.

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iScrub's central administration features allow a firm to establish and

control the metadata cleanup settings. iScrub publishes the clean

version of the document separate from the existing file, inside or

outside a document management system, to avoid compromising

document automation features in use within a firm. The scrubbed

document can be saved as a PDF file or in it's original format but

locked using our patented tool called Metasealant

iScrub's COM add in feature works with e-mail systems by prompting

users to scrub Word e-mail attachments before sending them.

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