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Now you CAN control all employees
on AIM, Yahoo! and MSN Messenger.
Instant Messaging is a Growing Security Risk
Although instant messaging has proven to be a quick and convenient way to communicate with coworkers, it’s widespread use carries security risks for organizations and individuals alike.
According to the SANS Top 20 2006 Update, recent instant messaging attacks include new variations in the spread of botnets and the use of compromised IM accounts to obtain confidential information from unsuspecting users. The spread of e-mail worms such as variants of the Mytob family are also being propagated via IM. SANS lists four general risks associated with instant messaging:
- Malware - Worms, viruses, and Trojans are easily transmitted via instant messaging. IRC channels can be used to control bots.
- Customer Data and Intellectual Property - IM provides easy access to proprietary data and confidential customer records
- Network Loads - Even legitimate use can lead to denial of service attacks or network capacity issues
- Application vulnerabilities - Vulnerabilities that exist in Instant messaging applications can be exploited to compromise affected systems.
Tech Assists' IM SecurityNETTM service lets you monitor, document and filter 100% of the IM conversations occurring on your network. With no hardware or software to install or maintain, IM SecurityNETTM sets up in five minutes - you simply "set-and-forget". Our Global Gateway adds another full layer of protection to keep your servers clean - enhancing the overall value of your existing network infrastructure.
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Protocol Support
For the first time ever, without expensive new software or hardware, you can control your company's IM communications over the world's most popular IM applications including:
- AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Microsoft MSN Messenger
IM SecurityNETTM lets you take back control of your network with the first managed Instant Message Filter in the industry. If you're unsure if IM is being conducted on your network, try IM SecurityNETTM for 30 days FREE with no obligation.
If you would simply like to block all IM clients on these three publiclly switched networks (AIM, MSN, and Yahoo!), sign up and configure IM SecurityNETTM and all IM traffic is automatically blocked.
User Access Control
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One of the most valuable features inside IM SecurityNETTM is the ability to register users and match anonymous screen names to employee names and associated email addresses. This registration process enables all the additional Organization, Group and User-level functionality within the filter such as: the ability to block access at user or group levels; restrict or un-restrict external IM; send disclaimers as well as conversation monitoring and logging.
Features:
- Administrators can configure IM SecurityNETTM to automatically register screen names or push a manual registration for users to register their own screen names
- Automatic registration can be completely transparent to the user
- Upon deployment, initial disclaimers can be sent to end users to warn them that their conversations are now being logged and/or reviewed
Custom Disclaimers
The ability to push custom disclaimers to individual users or groups has proven to be a hugely powerful deterrent for unauthorized communications between employees. Imagine the maturity level of your own IM conversations after receiving an IM at work that reads: "This is a message from the company's network administrator. You are hereby advised that your IM session is being monitored and logged for possible review by the Internet Advisory Board."
Benefits:
- Reduce inappropriate communication over IM immediately
- Give employees a chance to change behavior before warnings and/or penalties are imposed
- Limit corporate liability
- Keep employees productive, safe and lawful
Content Filtering
Because IM is an immediate and somewhat informal means of communications, users tend to become less careful with the overall tone and context of their language. Corporations are at risk for employee dissemination of company secrets or proprietary information over IM. To solve this challenge, IM SecurityNETTM can block specific words or phrases before they are sent over IM. It can also recognize words or phrases that are inappropriate in the workplace. Any combination of letters or numbers can be tracked and/or blocked.
Benefits:
- Block internal corporate secrets before they are transferred over IM
- Reduce harassment suits by blocking profane or dirty language before transfer
- Log conversations for future review or legal proceedings
File Transfer Blocking
Administrators can choose to have all files intended for transfer over IM blocked or choose to have files over a certain size blocked. IM SecurityNETTM provides the ultimate in convenience and control for the administrator.
Benefits:
- Free up network resources by not allowing large files to take up disk space
- Completely eliminate one possible source of viruses, worms and other malware on your network
- Block large video files or music files which hog bandwidth and require additional software
- Plan network upgrades and enhancements more accurately with a file transfer size limit
Virus Scanning
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To prevent viruses, worms and other malware from entering corporate networks over IM, IM SecurityNETTM uses mulitple virus engines which work around the clock and update the Global Gateway every 10 minutes.
Custom Notifications
Be the first to know of a rule violation on your network...
Network administrators using the IM SecurityNETTM Global Gateway IM console can receive custom notifications for category or content rules violations on their web-enabled networks. Files or content that is inappropriate or are considered non-work-related can be blocked, then a custom notification can be triggered and sent to the admin's own email or to anyone else in the organization.
Examples of possible useful notifications are:
- Inappropriate IM content blocked
- Inappropriate file download blocked
- *.exe file blocked
Benefits:
- Flexibility to choose many notifications or only the most critical
- Know about rules violations before anyone else in the organization
- Limit corporate liability
- Keep employees productive, safe and lawful
Reporting
Administrators using IM SecurityNETTM can take advantage of predefined report templates in order to conduct network performance analysis, conduct searches on logged conversations, or review blocked and/or quarantined files. All reports are available by Organization, Group and Users as well as by Protocol and Time/Date.
Administrator-level IM Reports include:
- Traffic/Bandwidth
- File Transfers (Shows file download attempts)
- 30-day Conversation Log with Search Functionality
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