Workshare: The Document Integrity Company

Metadata Removal Software Minimizes Document Security Risks

Are you sharing sensitive documents via email? Email programs such as Microsoft Outlook cannot alert you that there is hidden data in attached documents or zipped files which could put your company at risk for potential document security problems. Sensitive information can be inadvertently shared with outsiders if it is passed along in document metadata, but this problem can be averted with the use of metadata removal software.

Are you posting Excel spreadsheets on your web site?
A quick review of the Fortune 1000 Web sites shows that 33% of these sites contain Microsoft Excel documents publicly posted either directly on the company's corporate site, or linked to a third party site for SEC filings. Accidental posting of Microsoft Excel documents that contain potentially harmful document metadata can be easily viewed by anyone who downloads these documents. Again, metadata removal software can prevent this from happening.

Metadata removal software by Workshare can help:

Provides one-click PDF conversion on all Office file formats
Reports on a document's hidden data and provides a view of all present document metadata so the author can decide whether to send it or not

Document metadata can put corporations at financial risk, and create a situation of competitive disadvantage. But using metadata removal software can eliminate your security risks.

Learn more about Workshare's metadata removal software.