Akonix L7 Enterprise 

Instant Messaging (IM) Compliance,

Security and Reporting 

Feature Summary of L7 Enterprise:

Akonix’s L7 Enterprise delivers instant messaging (IM) compliance, security and reporting solutions for business. It is the only true enterprise-class IM management solution to bring security, management, reporting and regulatory IM compliance to unsupervised and uncontrolled enterprise IM usage. The Akonix solution provides IT organizations with enterprise instant messaging compliance and reporting management and integration needed to leverage the productivity benefits of IM while addressing the business and security risks associated with its use.

The Akonix L7 Enterprise IM compliance and security architecture and utilizes plug-in Protocol Adaptors, each of which detects and manages a set of protocols. Akonix L7 Public IM protocol support includes – AOL, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! with optional connectors for integrating enterprise IM traffic from Reuters, Microsoft Live Communications Server and IBM Lotus Messaging.

Akonix offers the industry’s highest level of scalability per gateway. Akonix L7 gateways can also be clustered to harness the power of multiple gateways distributed across locations, providing true enterprise scalability, redundancy, increased throughput, and centralized setup and management.

Akonix’s offers dynamic protocol update service provides notification and automatic updates for new versions of frequently changing IM protocols without service disruption.

Akonix L7 has been certified by AOL, Microsoft and Reuters, extending their instant messaging offerings to provide a secure, managed and compliant, end-to-end IM solution that addresses communications both inside and outside the enterprise.

Security Features:

Access Control – Control which users can access public IM networks, which networks they can access and who they can communicate with.

File Transfer Control – enable/disable file transfers and the direction files may be

transferred, allow/block based on file type and size. Optionally virus scan any file

transfer using bundled virus scanning capability from McAfee™.

Content Filtering – Filter employee communications with keyword, phrase and pattern

match blocking and notifications.

Client Version Enforcement - Ensure the latest release of a consumer IM client is used.

Local Message Routing – patent-pending Message Reflection technology routes

internal messaging locally behind the firewall, even across clustered L7 gateways

deployed across a WAN or VPN environment.

Management

Corporate directory integration – support for Active Directory, NTLM, iPlanet LDAP and

Novell eDirectory.

Auto-user discovery – automatically maps real employee corporate network identities

to their IM screen names.

Controlled namespace – ensure employee IM screen names adhere to corporate

naming standards.

Enterprise Compliance and Reporting

Logs and archives IM Conversations – captures and stores IM messages.

Integrated third party compliance solutions – for combined email and IM archiving and

compliance reporting.

Chinese walls – define policies to prevent communications between employees or

departments.

Compliance workflow – Optional component provides the ability to search, add

comments, check messages as "reviewed and monitor reviewers performance.

Reports – over 30 pre-built reports with automatic distribution. Report formats include

Crystal, HTML, PDF, CVS, TSV and Text.

Disclaimers - automatically inject custom disclaimers into message stream.

For a more detailed Data Sheet on Akonix L7 Enterprise, please select the URL below

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Akonix L7 Enterprise

Akonix's White Paper

Links to Archiving solutions for Instant Messaging(IM)