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Akonix and IBM Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Solution Center

Akonix L7 Enterprise extends the existing features of IBM Lotus® Sametime Instant Messaging by providing critical compliance, security and policy management for a complete end-to-end corporate IM solution.

For deployment of IBM Lotus Sametime Messaging, Akonix L7 Enterprise, the world's leading IM management solution, provides integral policy management, security and compliance features. With these two solutions you will be able to benefit from both real-time collaboration as well as meeting company and industry regulations on the privacy and management of electronic messaging.

Akonix L7 Enterprise allows you to extend your messaging infrastructure to include access to public IM networks. By augmenting your Enterprise IM strategy with authorized access to public networks, you can provide your employees managed access to people outside your network—including mobile employees, partners, vendors and customers—while meeting strict compliance requirements and without compromising network and endpoint security.

Administrators are able to take advantage of Akonix L7 Enterprise's:

  • Advanced, flexible IM policy engine to provide information security and enforce corporate usage policies for internal and external IM use
  • Active filtering of inappropriate content and confidential information
  • Robust logging, reporting and compliance monitoring capabilities that go beyond those available with IBM Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging alone

These powerful features help to minimize legal and financial exposure from inappropriate employee IM use; comply with SEC, NASD, HIPAA and other regulatory requirements; and prevent disclosure of intellectual property.

Akonix L7 Enterprise provides an intuitive interface for centrally managing IM across the entire enterprise. The solution leverages core assets by discovering and importing users and groups from your directory, integrating with firewalls, and providing plug-ins for leading content archiving systems.

Akonix L7 Enterprise is an enterprise-class IM management gateway that manages and secures access to public Instant Messaging and IBM Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging. Akonix L7 Enterprise provides a central point for defining and applying rules that enforce your company's policy on the proper use of IM by your employees. In addition, it also plugs seamlessly into your existing network infrastructure to complement your firewall and other network perimeter security and to leverage key assets such as directory services and content archiving systems.

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Features

Policy and Message Compliance

  • Flexible content filtering: define and apply filters that block messages containing keywords, phrases or patterns
  • Compliance workflow: search and review messages, add comments and escalate, and monitor reviewer performance
  • Customizable user disclaimers: inject disclaimers into IM messages to alert users of messages monitoring and logging
  • Scheduling summary reports: choose from over 35 IM activity reports to be scheduled and emailed on a regular basis

Centralized Administration and Integration

  • Zero desktop touch: deploy Akonix L7 Enterprise without installing client software or requiring any changes to end user behavior
  • Logging and archiving: capture and centrally store all public and IBM Lotus IM activity
  • Integrated IM support: centrally define access control and policies to be applied across all public and IBM Lotus Sametime IM activity
  • Ethical walls: set user policies to prevent communications between groups and/or individuals

Managed and Secure Access to IM

  • Spim and malware filters: automatically stop spim (spam over IM) and protect against IM-based attacks
  • File transfer control: enable/disable file transfers (internal, external or both) by allowing or blocking users based on file type and size
  • Granular access control: define and enforce policies, outlining who can access IM, when they can use it and who they can communicate with
  • Anti-Virus integration: scan all file transfers with existing AV engine

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