Also what are your policies/regulations on archival of the conversations? -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IM raises its ugly head again...
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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
