Secure Instant Messaging (IM) Service
MessageLabs Instant Messaging (IM) service equips you with a 100% secure and private IM network that enables you to harness IM’s many business benefits without the risk. Its speed and immediacy facilitates real-time communication, collaboration, and information-sharing for corporate and enterprise IM. These benefits translate directly into efficiency and productivity.
Why use our Instant Messaging Service?
Our Instant Messaging service provides you with a secure, private IM network that allows in-house employees, remote workers, and business partners to communicate and collaborate effectively and safely. The service is easy to set up and use, avoids the need to use or invest in complicated in-house hardware or software and is fully interoperable with consumer IM networks.
Accessible from your PC whenever connected to the Internet, anywhere in the world | Facilitates real-time business communication, aiding effective decision making and action-taking |
Uses TLS to encrypt all Instant Messaging communications between authorized network users | Ensures security of confidential information, promoting trust with your partners and clients |
Protects against virus, SPIM and other IM-borne threats and prevents their spread by blocking access to buddy lists | Minimizes disruption caused by IM-borne threats and cuts costs involved in identifying and tackling them |
Robust, flexible system that is simple to install, easy to use and virtually maintenance-free | Eliminates unnecessary investment in infrastructure and reduces burden on in-house IT support services |
Centralized storage/logging facility, plus detailed reporting interface with fast access to IM conversation logs, activity reports and usage reports | Ensures regulatory compliance, for example by guaranteeing readily available IM logs required as part of legal discovery |
All file-sharing transactions take place within the centralized server | Reduces in-house bandwidth requirements |
Approach - Instant Messaging Service
MessageLabs EIM service ensures all IM communications between your employees and nominated users outside your organization remain private, secure and malware-free. It achieves this by using TLS to fully encrypt all messages and file attachments exchanged between authorized users, preventing unauthorized access, tampering or interception. It also stops viruses, worms, trojans and SPIM from entering your network.
- A Professional Online Desktop (POD) is downloaded to the desktops of all authorized users or pushed to the user base using MSI technology
- Each authorized user has access to a totally private IM network based on TLS encrypted tunnels
- All messages and file attachments are fully and securely encrypted
- All messages and file attachments are comprehensively scanned for malware
- Use of the service can be monitored efficiently via a user-friendly, web-based administration and reporting tool
Advantage - Secure Instant Messaging
IM security threats are a growing concern as viruses, worms, and trojans, as well as SPIM (spam over IM) can easily penetrate your organization via consumer networks, such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo. The MessageLabs Instant Messaging Service enables you to enjoy all the IM’s benefits without any of the risk.
Our service provides unmatched protection from all current and evolving IM risks requires an unrivalled combination of leading-edge technology and the highest possible standards in service level and customer support. Ahead of the game and ahead of the competition, MessageLabs IM service provides you with:
- Completely safe, real-time IM communication and file exchange compatible with all leading public Instant Messaging networks
- Full TLS encryption between your employees and your partners and clients
- Quick and easy deployment as the fully managed spam filter service requires no software or hardware investment
- Peace of mind that you are always protected against the latest spam threats as MessageLabs unique multi-layered spam filtering proactively detects new and emerging threats better than anyone else
- 24/7 support plus unrivalled service level agreements for service performance, service availability, email latency and fault response