Akonix

L7 Enterprise™ - Features

Management

• Corporate directory integration – support for Active Directory, IBM Lotus Domino, NTLM, LDAP, and Novell eDirectory

• Controlled namespace – ensure IM screen names adhere to corporate policies (e.g., firstname_lastname@company.com)

• Auto user discovery – automatically map screen names to network users

• Zero desktop touch – deploy without installing client software or requiring any changes to end user behavior

• Public and enterprise IM support – centrally define access control and policies to be applied across all public and enterprise IM activity

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Security

• Spim & malware filters – automatically stop spim (IM spam) and protect against IM-based attacks

• Granular access control – define and enforce policies on who can access IM, when they can use it, and who they can communicate with

• File transfer control – enable/disable file transfers (internal, external, or both), allow/block based on file type and size, and scan for viruses

• IM feature control – enable/disable games, application sharing, white boarding, audio and video conferencing and other IM client features by user, group, and domain

• Flexible content filtering – define and apply filters that block messages that contain keywords, phrases or patterns (e.g., ###-##-####)

• Forced authentication – prevent unauthenticated or unauthorized users from accessing IM

• Local message routing – keep internal messages from leaving corporate network through patent-pending Message Reflection

Compliance

• Logging & archiving – capture and store all public and enterprise IM activity

• Integration with content archiving solutions – combine email and IM archiving and compliance reporting

• Chinese walls – define user policies to prevent communications between groups and/or individuals

• Compliance workflow – search and review messages, add comments, escalate, and monitor reviewer performance

• Scheduled summary reports – choose from over 35 IM activity reports to be scheduled and emailed on a regular basis, such as weekly PDF-format reports on IM policy violations

• Customisable user disclaimers – inject disclaimers into IM messages to alert users of message monitoring and logging

Integration

• SDK – provide IM access to line-of-business applications

• Bots & IM applications – build and deploy IM accessible applications

• Enterprise integration – leverage existing directory services, anti-virus engines, firewalls, load balancers and other network infrastructure