Security and Compliance for Enterprise Messaging
Total control of your corporate intelligence is what every enterprise is faced with today. Unquestionably, e-mail and IM have become critical tools for efficient business communications. However, today's enterprises face huge challenges with overtaxed email and file servers, data corruption, expensive infrastructure overhead and administration, exposure to corporate compliance risks and costly electronic discoveries. We offer email and IM archiving solutions to reduce hardware acquisition costs, simplify system administration, increase end-user productivity, and enable enterprises to manage the business risk with legal and regulatory compliance.
The ability to exchange, store, and retrieve vast quantities of messages also creates a precarious liability with the management of sensitive or potentially harmful information. Enabling Technologies helps companies mitigate their exposure with email and instant message archival services, tailored to meet all regulatory compliance criteria without compromising performance.
In practice, it is rare that only one UC suite is used exclusively, even after an organization has standardized on a single platform like Lync/OCS. The enterprise architecture will more likely include a combination of authorized applications such as a specific public IM and Skype, which will remain in use no matter what UC platform is deployed. In addition, collaboration with partners, contractors and customers will require the inclusion of other enterprise UC platforms.
Enabling recommends best-of-breed third-party applications for compliancy adherence and reporting for your Lync and Exchange environments. Actiance's solution: Vantage is the leading enterprise-class solution for the security, compliance management and control of instant messaging and other real-time applications. Iron Mountain's Nearpoint offers the leading solution for email archival and e-discovery. Enabling Technologies is able to design and implement both of these solutions into your UC infrastructure.
Security and Compliance for UC and Collaboration Environments
Deploying Microsoft Lync Server or Office Communications Server (OCS) is one of the first steps to take advantage of the benefits of Unified Communications (UC). However, in heterogeneous environments where the UC platform operates alongside other communications applications, the overall security, management and compliance becomes more complex.
Enabling offers the following services in regards to Vantage:
- Discussion and analysis of the corporate communications policies
- Explain the options and the features that will be available to Communicator users connecting to outside users
- Discussion of the risks associated with federating to outside IM systems and how to mitigate
- Develop and recommendation of a secure architecture to protect the internal network and demilitarized zone.
- Specification of edge server hardware requirements
- Discussion and deployment of the certificates needed to properly federate to outside systems.
- Installation, configuration, testing and validation of federated services
Enforcement of Lync/OCS solution
Many enterprises are concerned about enforcement of Lync once implemented. The larger concern is vulnerability of the enterprise from security leaks through the unauthorized use of public IM clients and P2P applications. Enabling recommends Actiance's solution Vantage as a best-of-breed solution for addressing this issue.
Enterprises can prevent circumvention of security and compliance policies with Actiance's Vantage, an advanced perimeter security solution used to block unauthorized IM and P2P usage and enforce use of OCS and Lync.
