That's pretty sweet. Care to name the appliance? On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:57, Free, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~
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