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More than web browsing and even spam, instant messaging is a vulnerability for any company without an instant message filtering policy and introduces dangers to business networks through several different routes:
- Uploading or transferring sensitive or proprietary files to people outside the company
- Downloading viruses, spyware, and malware
- Downloading netbots, which propagate throughout a network and divert resources for propagating spam emails or other malicious uses
- Productivity loss and wasted time because of personal chatting
- Offensive conversations
- Weak protocols that cannot block instant message conversations susceptible to hackers
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Instant message filtering is much more difficult than web traffic filtering. Frequently, the only option for network administrators is to block instant message sessions entirely, which limits effective, fast communication possible through online chats. LivePrism offers powerful features to block instant message threats and provides instant message filtering, giving control over the actual content of chats and different instant messaging applications.
- Instant message filtering to block administrator-defined keywords and phrases on the fly, in the middle of chat sessions
- Allow or block instant message protocols (Instant Message Filtering for the following IM services: Yahoo, MSN, and AOL Instant Messaging)
- Group profiles allow instant message block configuration that allow applications, content, and file transfers to be added by member's user name and screen name
- Virus and spim (IM spam) scanning which will block instant message sessions with recognized fake or dangerous users
- Reporting for all instant message usage and instant message block activity, like the number and size of file transfers
- Notifications whenever an instant message block is initiated or file transfers are intercepted
LivePrism delivers instant message filtering as a hosted service, a simple way for network administrators to implement network-wide Internet message filtering without having to buy and install software, run a local chat server, or block instant message protocols entirely. LivePrism instant message block software only requires a small DNS change, and all instant message sessions are filtered according to your rules. LivePrism is also scalable, so IM groups are monitored consistently to block instant message threats no matter how many employees are chatting or how your company grows.
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