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title: "MailMum for Compliance & Risk Teams"
description: "Every blocked and passed connection is retained with a timestamp, matched-rule history, and network-ownership context, serving as evidence of active, enforced controls at the mail boundary."
url: "https://mailmum.io/for-compliance-teams/"
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# MailMum for Compliance & Risk Teams

Audits ask a simple question that's often hard to answer well: "how do you
know what's connecting to your mail servers, and what did you do about it?"
MailMum is built to answer it directly.

## Evidence, not assertions

* **Every connection attempt is retained**, blocked or passed, with a
  timestamp and which rule (if any) matched.
* **Network/ownership context** is attached automatically, so the record
  shows not just an IP but who operates the network behind it.
* **Per-server and per-account history**, so evidence can be scoped to the
  specific mail infrastructure an audit is asking about.
* **A durable, private record.** Because MailMum is self-hosted and
  privately managed, this evidence isn't dependent on a third-party
  vendor's retention policy or availability.

## Where this fits

This audit trail is scoped to DNS-lookup events tied to mail servers —
it's evidence of enforced controls at the mail connection boundary, not a
general-purpose security event log. For the full picture of what MailMum
does and doesn't cover, see [what MailMum is not](https://mailmum.io/#what-mailmum-is-not) on
the homepage, or read the [MailMum Whitepaper](https://mailmum.io/whitepaper).