IMlogic Announces First Secure IM Management Solution Featuring Real-Time Threat Protection Integrated with Global IM Threat Center

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO -- Partnership with Symantec Delivers "Best-of-Breed" Technologies from Trusted Industry Leaders

IMlogic, Inc., the global market leader for secure instant messaging management software, announced today at the RSA Conference, IM Manager 7.0, the next-generation of IMlogic's best-of-breed solution for instant messaging management, compliance and security. Integrated with IMlogic's Global Threat Center and supported by leaders in Internet security, instant messaging, and information lifecycle management, IM Manager 7.0 provides guaranteed IM policy enforcement for regulatory compliance, centralized security controls, and enhanced real-time communications for extending IM across the enterprise.

The launch of IM Manager 7.0 comes at a time when the increasing use of IM has created a serious security concern for corporate networks. According to The Radicati Group, more than 85 percent of all enterprises report using instant messaging for business. Yet, most IM usage is still unmonitored and unprotected, creating openings for blended threats, viruses, spam, and unknown breaches of corporate compliance and information security policy. Symantec cites in their recent Internet Security Threat Report, IM/P2P applications were used in 7 of top 10 Internet threats in 2004 with IM security threats growing at 100 percent every six months.

"Similar to email, the growth and maturity of instant messaging and real-time communications increasingly requires more efficient and effective controls for management, security and compliance," said Matt Cain, Senior Vice President at META Group, a leading provider of IT research advisory services. "Companies need to take the issues surrounding uncontrolled instant messaging seriously, and work with vendors that have the expertise required to help IT managers secure and manage the evolving landscape of Instant Messaging."

IMlogic IM Manager 7.0 delivers real-time threat protection, enhanced policy controls and a rapid and flexible deployment architecture for enterprise environments

IMlogic IM Manager 7.0 provides the complete solution for fully leveraging the power and productivity of IM while protecting the organization from unnecessary security and compliance risk. Highlights include:

--Real-time Threat Protection -- IM Manager 7.0 is the first instant messaging management solution integrated with the IMlogic Threat Center for automatic real-time threat protection, including real-time antivirus and anti-spam prevention. The IMlogic Threat Center includes rapid detection of IM vulnerabilities through IMlogic's global IM "honeypot" infrastructure, early response and remediation for IM viruses and worms, and is operated in partnership with industry leaders in Internet security and instant messaging including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, and IBM.

--Inter-Organization Compliance and Policy Enforcement -- IM Manager 7.0 helps organizations ensure "Industry Standard" compliance across the extended enterprise by providing the next generation compliance rules engine, built in partnership with IMlogic's Fortune 1000 customers, integrated with a new set of federated user and trusted domain communication controls.

--Unified Management of Multiple Real-Time Services -- IM Manager 7.0 enables unified management of multiple real-time services, including support for enhanced systems administration, automatic network discovery, administration of multiple real-time services through a single dashboard, and the publishing and routing of real-time events across enterprise management tools.

--Enterprise Deployment Flexibility and Extensibility -- IM Manager 7.0 has the broadest support for deployment environments including Linux and Windows-based operating environments and Oracle, SQL and MSDE database technologies. IM Manager 7.0 customers also benefit from unparalleled extensibility for enterprise IM platforms, including Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Workplace (formerly known as Sametime) and Jabber.

--Broad Partner Integration -- IM Manager 7.0 provides certified integrations with the leading content security vendors, including Symantec, Sybari, and McAfee, information lifecycle and compliance management vendors, including HP, KVS Veritas, EMC Legato, AXS-One, Zantaz, Iron Mountain, and iLumin and real-time security and policy enforcement for the leading enterprise IM Servers including Microsoft, IBM and Jabber.

"IMlogic delivers all the capabilities we require to effectively secure and manage instant messaging in our organization," said Mike Miller, director of support services for Media General Inc. "By integrating with our key technology partners, IMlogic provides us with the necessary security and policy controls to safely leverage IM for business communications."

Symantec's certification and interoperability with IMlogic provides customers with Symantec AntiVirus and Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture for IM

In addition to the new security, compliance and management functionality, IM Manager 7.0 offers customers interoperability with the Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine and the Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture. The expanded integration partnership gives enterprise customers the opportunity to deploy best-of-breed technologies to protect their corporate networks from IM-borne viruses and malware and to manage their security infrastructure from a single management console.