Dropmyemail now helps you detect errant employees by monitoring corporate email usage

Email Insights visualizes email data.

Dropmyemail Business, an online service that backs ups corporate emails, has introduced Email Insights, a new tool that monitors email usage of employees. Available for free to existing and new Dropmyemail Business users, Email Insights enables administrators to do the following:

• Identify all employees’ contacts, which is helpful in regaining lost sales leads during a server crash or personnel resignation.
• Spot misuse of corporate email for personal purposes or data leakage.
• Assess email effectiveness by tracking amount of email sent or received versus performance.
• Filter through communications to find specific conversations.

The tool is currently reactive, meaning it alerts employers to abuse that has already happened. In the pipeline however are algorithms that will sort through emails in an attempt to predict fraud, data leakage, employees that are about to quit, employee dissatisfaction, and more.

Dropmyemail Business is available as a 30-day trial.

While there are many email monitoring software in the wild, Dropmyemail is different since it bundles an email backup service with the monitoring tool, making it possibly more affordable to customers that want both.

Employees might potentially be concerned by its Orwellian or PRISM-like flavor, but Dropmyemail says it only monitors corporate emails.

Employees, of course, could learn to mask their true intentions by shifting activity to their personal email accounts. That’s assuming that they’re aware of being monitored — which would surely become the case if such tools become ubiquitous.

“If an employee utilizes his or her personal email accounts for illicit business, it will be their personal consequences,” says Dropmyemail’s publicist Peter Yu.

How Email Insights works: