We support only the most basic IM services from the 3 major players' thick clients, web services or 3rd party clients won't work. IM traffic all goes through an appliance and is 100% logged, reviewed, archived etc. The solution ties to AD account of the logged in user same as the web proxy. Works in conjunction with the web proxy to deny any rouge P2P apps etc
Nothing like video, music streaming, file xfer is allowed, just basic IM text service. It has a workflow for reviewing and auditing instant messaging conversations and demonstrating compliance to regulatory agencies. One cool thing is that it keeps all internal communications inside our network even if it is between different external providers. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:44 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/> ~
