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Policy and Risk Management for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 with Akonix L7 Enterprise




Akonix L7 Enterprise™ provides comprehensive, unified policy and risk management for Office Communications Server 2007. The world’s leading organizations use L7 Enterprise for archiving, security, compliance, and enforcement of appropriate use policies.



Akonix L7 Enterprise, the most deployed IM management product in the world, is the perfect complement to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 for complete security, archiving and logging, compliance support, and enforcement of both regulatory and internal policies regarding the use of enterprise and pubic IM in the workplace.

Employees using OCS 2007 in companies and organizations of all sizes and from all industries enjoy the productivity benefits of enhanced communication with Microsoft’s Unified Communications platform safely and securely while security administrators have complete control over setting and enforcing policy.

Whether running on Windows Server 2003 servers or factory-configured in Akonix’s award-winning A-Series appliances, L7 Enterprise provides everything an IT organization needs to gain complete control over the use of instant messaging and other real-time communications within the organization, and across company and firewall boundaries.

Akonix L7 Enterprise addresses the four areas of risk that arise from the adoption of new communications applications:

  1. Security – With IM-delivered malware growing dramatically as a choice for hackers, organizations must implement IM security.
  2. Compliance – Over 10,000 regulations in the United States alone govern the use of electronic messaging and records retention.
  3. Inappropriate Use – An Akonix survey in 2007 found that 31% of workers had been harassed over IM at work during their careers. IM may be creating multi-million dollar time bombs that need to be addressed with IM content scanning.
  4. Loss of Confidential Data – IM allows faster, easier communications across company lines. Employees must be prevented from sending trade secrets, insider information, and confidential data out of the company over IM.

L7 ENTERPRISE for MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER 2007

Akonix L7 Enterprise adds these critical functions not found in OCS 2007:

IM text content filtering – Administrators create their own filters for keywords, regular expressions, and even specific number combinations like social security numbers and credit cards (using the built-in MOD-10 algorithm). Filters may be applied to individual users, groups, or roles

Ethical boundaries – Set “Chinese Walls” or ethical boundaries to prevent specified users from communicating with other specified users, based on role, group, or username. A critical compliance feature for highly regulated industries like financial services, commodities trading, and energy

Granular access control lists – Set policy to allow or deny access by user, group, or role to any or all of the functionality of OCS. Policies consider all parties involved in the communication. A valuable compliance feature addition to OCS, which only allows global on/off per user

File transfer AV scanning – All files transferred through IM (OCS or external) may be scanned for viruses

File transfer archiving – All files transferred through IM (OCS or external) may be archived. Point-and-click integration with Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive, CA Message Manager, EMC EmailXtender, HP IAP, Iron Mountain, ZANTAZ, and all other leading message archiving platforms.

Conversation based reporting – Allows administrators to follow an IM conversation transcript.

IM text broadcast – Allows administrators to send a broadcast message to all online users.

Support for all external IM networks – L7 Enterprise provides archiving, security, and content-filtering for AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger. Akonix L7 Enterprise is certified for use on the AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger networks, unlike most other gateways claiming to provide IM management. See www.akonix.com/networkcertification for details.

Features

Compliance

  • Monitoring for legal and regulatory compliance
  • IM archiving
  • Review and discovery

Policy Management

  • Protect confidential corporate information
  • Enforce productivity and usage policies
  • Mitigate risk and liability

Security

  • Virus protection
  • Spyware protection
  • Zero-day protection
  • Attachment management

Management

  • Usage and administrative reporting
  • Integration with enterprise directory and infrastructure
  • Web-based L7 Management Console

Why Akonix?

  • Product leadership in real-time communications with over 20 patents filed
  • Recommended by Windows IT Pro, Network Computing, and Information Security magazines. Top score among all competitors in SC Magazine
  • Chosen by more customers than any other IM management product

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