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04.05.06
Symantec Launches IM Security Product
 By
Jason L. Miller
Symantec announced Monday the release of its enterprise instant messaging protection service, called the Symantec IM Manager 8.0. It enables organizations to control the use of public IM services and enterprise RTC platforms and manage compliance with legal and corporate governance policies.
Symantec says its IM Manager is a powerful 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.
A behavior-based, network anomaly monitoring system, it preempts IM threat outbreaks before they occur, utilizing a real time global community to identify and validate the most current IM threats. All aspects of IM and real-time communications are covered, including application sharing, file sharing, audio, video, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
It offers support for all major public IM networks and enterprise platforms, including AOL Instant Messenger, GoogleTalk, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger, as well as enterprise IM offerings such as Microsoft Live Communications Server, IBM/Lotus Sametime, and Jabber.
"Corporate adoption of IM has been growing at more than 200 percent per year," said Carlin Wiegner, senior director of Messaging and Web Security solutions at Symantec.
"And with this increase in usage come security risks and compliance requirements. Enterprises need a way to secure, manage, and archive all aspects of enterprise messaging while also insuring compliance with IT policies and government regulations."
IDC estimates that enterprise IM will grow from 40 million users today to more than 140 million by 2009, making IM the fastest growing communications medium of all time.
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Symantec says the speed and scale of this growth has outpaced IT administrators' ability to deploy security and management solutions, providing a new avenue for malicious code. The real-time nature of IM combined with attacks that leverage social engineering techniques make IM threats highly destructive and costly to an infrastructure.
According to the most recent Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (March 7, 2006), worms were the preferred type of malicious code on all three large IM networks in the second half of 2005, representing 91 percent of IM-related malicious code during this period.
Additional research shows that more than 2,400 unique IM and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) threats were identified in 2005 - a staggering 1700 percent increase from the previous year. The vast majority of these threats were URL-based worms, but the rise of IM-based phishing attacks and more sophisticated malware complicate IM's risk profile. .
Symantec IM Manager 8.0 provides integrated management and compliance archiving for corporate policy enforcement, human resources, legal risk management, and regulatory compliance requirements, including Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Association for Securities Dealers (NASD), Sarbanes Oxley, and Gramm Leach Bliley.
About the Author:
Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
and business.
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