Instant Messaging
Introduction

Organizations see instant messaging (IM) as a tool to instantly communicate with other employees and partners. However public IM solutions like AIM, MSN and Yahoo pose serious security and network risks to corporations such as:

Lack of privacy

Lack of authentication

Integrated Spyware

Insecure Clients

No Archiving and Monitoring of Messages

Benefits

i3Connect provides a comprehensive solution for building secure instant communications solutions
i3connect  provides:

Support for Open Protocols
The i3Connect solution is based on the open SIP and Jabber IM protocols for secure corporate instant messaging. In addition i3Connect IM solution also supports integration with public IMs such as MSN, ICQ, AOL, and Yahoo.

Secure Messaging
The i3Connect solution supports encryption, and Digital Ids based on PKI and X.509 v3 standards making it the most secure IM solution. In addition it also supports spam control and content filtering. The enterprise solution also supports single sign-on via LDAP, Active Directory, X.509 and NTLM type authentication mechanisms.

Policy Management
Our solution supports enforcement of corporate IT policies. For example IT managers can control access to instant messaging, features such as file transfer and revoke certificates and Digital Ids based on directory based CRLs.

Easy to Use and customizable user experience
i3Connect IM client Vista has been designed based on input from thousands of users. The result is an easy to use and highly configurable IM client. Customers can organize buddies, add or remove components and easily set options for a highly personalized user experience.

Presence Management
Employees of a company can see the presence of their colleagues and their status. Employees can also set their Individual status whether available or not and it will be noticed by their colleagues. Our presence service is extensible enabling users to create custom presence information for more effective communication.

Archiving, Monitoring and Filtering
For those corporations who need to monitor sensitive information due to government regulations or internal policy can use the auditing to record all messages in a relational database. Our solution provides unique archiving features such as auditing of encrypted messages as well as support for archiving external communications over AIM, MSN and Yahoo public IM networks. Our IM solution can also filter and remove offensive language and other inappropriate content from the message.

Server to Server Communication
For corporations that need to communicate with their partners or deploy the IM solution for distributed teams, our solution supports server-to-server communication. This improves scalability, manageability and enables B2B messaging