No consumer IM.  IMO that is just a date leak accident waiting to happen.
Especially if you allow any and all.

We provide internal OCS, but no gateway to public.  We do have a public
LiveMeeting server tied to OCS.

My wifes company, a large computer OEM, allows Yahoo.  She works from home,
which means I support her laptop most of the time and anytime she has a
problem, it is often related to Yahoo IM.  Her computer seems to run slower
with it.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Anyone out there care to share their policy and (very) general
> implementation info on IM and personal video conferencing usage?
>
> Does your company, for instance, allow users to install and use any of
> the major consumer IM/video apps and communicate directly to the major
> public IM/video providers such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo! and Google?
>
> If your company does allow it, what does the company consider to be
> the cost/benefit tradeoff WRT security and not using a centralized
> IM/video server with gateways to public IM/video services?
>
> Also, what security concerns were looked at before implementation and
> what measures, if any, were taken to mitigate them?
>
> If direct access to public IM/video services isn't allowed, is an
> IM/video service provided for business purposes, and if so, what are
> you using - MSFT OCS, or Openfire, or something else?
>
> If you can't comment on-list, but don't mind doing so off-list, I'd
> certainly appreciate it.
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

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