Secure Messaging and Identity Management
The cornerstone of secure messaging in the business world is identity management. Instant messaging encryption, network protection, and data capture alone are not enough for truly secure messaging, because users of public IM are subject to identity theft, and “spoofing” pose a major threat to corporate and individual privacy and risk management. Any individual can get a screen name from AIM® Yahoo!® or MSN® Messenger that misrepresents their identity.
Information security experts have diverse opinions about what it means to provide secure messaging technology, but they all agree on one thing – there is nothing secure about communicating over IM, if you can’t prove who is on the other end of your conversation.
Right now, a stranger could be using a buddy name that implies that they are affiliated with your company, or an ex-employee could be trading securities on your firm’s behalf, without your knowledge. Secure messaging from Presensoft products give you the ability to authenticate and confirm the identities of IM users, to avoid the risks associated with IM spoofing. Knowing who your employees are communicating with, and displaying their true identity in the IM window is vital to secure messaging over public IM clients.
Presensoft IM Caller ID - The Next Era in Secure Messaging
Authentication for secure messaging with Presensoft IM Caller ID is achieved using Microsoft Certificate Authority, and identity confirmation is stored in a protected environment when you log IM’s with Presensoft IM Policy Manager and IM Hosting. Presensoft has been a leading provider of compliant, secure messaging tools for over six years, and the revolutionary release of Presensoft IM Caller ID is changing the scope and meaning of secure messaging for public IM.
In addition to authentication, logging data for compliance and auditing, encrypting conversations for privacy, and guarding against network security risks are also basic to secure messaging across IM. Presensoft IM Policy Manager paired with IM Caller ID is the only product on the market that achieves every goal of secure messaging, to bring the most secure, private, compliant, instant messaging to your business environment.
Presensoft’s Secure Messaging Offers the Highest Level of Security for Businesses
[Posted April 7, 2008]
For businesses,
secure messaging using instant messaging (IM) technology can be highly beneficial to one’s organization. Secure messaging can be the difference between utilizing this incredibly convenient technology and relying on older more cumbersome technologies for communications. Presensoft’s secure messaging ensures a safe and secure IM product that goes far beyond what other IM providers define as secure. If you are looking to bring secure messaging into the workplace- Presensoft offers the highest security available.
Presensoft’s Identity Authentication
While public IM clients such as AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ are fantastic communications technologies, they are nowhere near secure to use in a business environment. One of the most important issues to tackle when implementing a
secure messaging system is to ensure identity authentication. Unfortunately, with public IM clients almost anyone can sign up and use a buddy name that implies that they are affiliated with your company. With Presensoft’s secure messaging you are given the ability to authenticate and confirm identities of IM users and can avoid the many pitfalls associate with IM spoofing. Knowing the true identity of the person on the other end of your conversation is crucial and Presensoft’s secure messaging was developed for this purpose.
Presensoft’s Secure Messaging Features
Besides employing perhaps the best identity authentication system for
secure messaging in the industry, Presensoft also offers a wide range of features for all organizations to utilize and maximize their IM use, boost productivity and enhance their reach to business partners and customers.
With Presensoft’s secure messaging technology, your organization can be confident that their IM conversations within the organization, with customers and business partners are safe and secure. Presensoft’s
secure messaging offers a wide variety of features designed to tackle practically every aspect of secure communications. For instance, with Presensoft’s secure messaging you can avoid IM spam (spim), the many viruses that IM users encounter, malware including tracking by adware companies and spyware.
Presensoft’s Secure Messaging and Compliance Issues
In order to bring a public IM client into the workplace it is not only necessary to ensure that it is protected against viruses, malware and spyware, but that it also complies with an assortment of federal regulations that apply to many organizations. Presensoft’s
secure messaging ensures compliance with regulatory requirements for electronically stored data. Compliance includes SEC, NYSE, NASD, HIPAA, FERC, NERC and much more. It should also be noted that Presensoft’s secure messaging employs archiving of all IM data, encryption and capture of all internal and external data perfect for auditing and eDiscovery.
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