Symantec Corp.Symantec Corp. has released Symantec IM Manager 8.0, which the Cupertino, Calif., company calls a secure instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM) and real-time communications (RTC See real time clock. ) management solution--one that enables organizations to control the use of public IM services and enterprise RTC platforms and manage compliance with legal and corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. policies. Symantec IM Manager is a key component of Symantec's Enterprise Messaging Management solution portfolio. IDC estimates that enterprise IM will grow from 40 million users today to more than 140 million by 2009, which would make IM the fastest-growing communications medium of all time. The speed and scale of this growth has outpaced IT administrators' ability to deploy security and management solutions, providing a new avenue for malicious computer code. To date, most corporate IM traffic remains unmonitored and unprotected, and the infection of one computer can result in the rapid proliferation of viruses, worms and spyware within corporate environments. The real-time nature of IM, combined with attacks that leverage social engineering techniques, make IM threats highly destructive and costly to an infrastructure. Symantec IM Manager 8.0 provides new proactive threat protection and remediation that secures the real-time communications infrastructure against external threats such as worms, spam, viruses, phishing and other unwanted content. The company claims to provide "the industry's only behavior-based and network anomaly monitoring system to preempt pre·empt or pre-empt v. pre·empt·ed, pre·empt·ing, pre·empts v.tr. 1. To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. a. IM threat outbreaks before they occur, while leveraging the largest real-time global community to identify and validate the most current IM threats." Symantec IM Manager 8.0 also provides customers with innovative granular policy controls for all aspects of IM and real-time communications, including application sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. , file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , audio, video and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Web: www.symantec.com |
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