Network Security Risks from Malware and Spim
An integral part of a “business-only” IM policy involves protection against network security risks like viruses, worms, spyware, and instant messaging spam, known as spim. In 2004, an estimated 2 billion spim messages were delivered over public IM clients, posing a major threat to network security and privacy.
With Presensoft IM Policy Manager your organization can adjust privileges and authorization preferences to determine who has access to instant messaging, and when they are allowed to use it. Controlling who uses IM, and blocking unknown users from communicating with your employees can help prevent the transfer of spim, viruses, spyware and other network security risks associated with instant messaging.
Block Viruses, Spim, Spyware and Inappropriate Web Content
Presensoft IM Policy Manager reduces IM security risk and spim for internal and remote users and enhances employee productivity.
- Block Embedded Web Links
Blocking embedded web links dramatically reduces the risk of spim, viruses, worms and spyware from entering your environment. Protection from infected, embedded web links will extend spim safeguards beyond your internal network to remote users.
- Restrict Unauthorized Attachments
Restricting document attachments protects your entire network from viruses and spim that could be introduced by a single employee. Ensure that any file transfer is done using our Secure File Transfer technology which encrypts documents over IM with our 448-bit rolling salt, blowfish encryption.
- Reduce Spim
Blocking spim at its source reduces the number of unsolicited connections received across IM, to decrease the spread of unwanted or harmful messages.
- Prevent Sensitive Data Sharing
Employers can selectively choose to block the use of certain content based on in appropriate keywords, or regular expressions such as social security numbers and credit cards.
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