IM Appliances

Compliance Archiving for In-house IM Appliances

Through IM technology partnerships with Akonix, FaceTime and IMLogic, Global Relay securely captures public network instant messaging (IM) chat sessions transmitted from IM security appliances deployed on a customer's local area network (LAN). Akonix, FaceTime and IMLogic offer instant messaging appliances for:

  • Security: Protection of IM against inbound and outbound threats associated with public IM network that can result in security breaches, productivity loss and information disclosure.
  • Regulatory Compliance: IM logging to Global Relay's Message Archiver to consolidate customer's email, instant messages and Bloomberg®, in a centralized online repository, for easy search, retrieval, monitoring and audit information demands.

Global Relay's Message Archiver scans, processes, indexes and archives the instant messages applying XML Style Sheets in order to preserve and enable the viewing of Akonix, FaceTime and IMlogic log files in their original format.

Akonix, in addition to integrating its L7 Enterprise™ Security Servers in Global Relay's fully-managed, hosted IM Gateway service, Akonix also has an archiving technology alliance with Global Relay for customers deploying the Akonix L7 Enterprise Security Servers in-house.

Akonix is the most deployed IM security product in the world, enabling Global 1000 companies to deploy productive, enterprise-wide IM that provides secure and controlled access to public and enterprise IM while logging all conversations to ensure compliance with industry and government regulations. Worldwide over one million people in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Energy, Technology, Healthcare and Entertainment industries use Akonix products. Akonix has certified partnerships with all leading IM providers including America Online®, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Reuters, IBM, Jabber Inc., Parlano, Antepo, and Bloomberg.

FaceTime is an IM archiving technology partner of Global Relay. Customers deploying FaceTime's IMAuditor in their internal environment are able to forward their IM log files to Global Relay's Message Archiver.

FaceTime Communications is a leading provider of security solutions for the management and control of greynet applications such as instant messaging, adware/spyware, webmail, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 700 customers, among them seven of the eight largest U.S. financial institutions. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Jabber. In addition, it supports WebEx conferencing.

IMlogic has an instant messaging archiving alliance with Global Relay. Using XML format, organizations that have installed the Symantec IM Manager proxy server internally are able to have their instant message log files forwarded to and managed by Global Relay's Message Archiver.

IMlogic (now Symantec) enables enterprises to control and leverage Instant Messaging. The Symantec IM Manager is an industry's leading IM management solution that has been architected for the enterprise, providing the most comprehensive IM management and security tools. It enables financial services firms to meet the compliance requirements set forth by the SEC, FINRA and NYSE.

Messaging Partners

AIM Certified Partner


Bloomberg


Communicator Inc


Jabber Inc.


Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005


IBM Lotus


MSN Messenger


Parlano


Reuters


Yahoo! Messenger