NEWSBRIEF

Keeping IM & P2P in check, HIPAA - lawyers lie in wait

April 2003

EmailBox Size, E-Discovery & Content Management- Spam Reduction - Proactive Intrusion "Prevention" - Email & IM Archiving- Encrypted Email - Performance Metrics & Alerting - Web & Email Threat Management

In This Issue:

Akonix L7 keeps IM & P2P in check and wins product of the year

HIPAA  - Lawyers lie in wait - CertifiedMail responds

EmailXtender & EMC offer integrated archiving solution for Regulated Industries

Websense 5.5 delivers enhanced Web filtering

PREVIOUS ISSUES:

March: Email Legal Discovery - from novelty to common target

February: The next threat after SPAM? ....plus new mailbox size management options

January: Encrypted Email - new options for securing email delivery in 2003

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Akonix L7 - keeps IM & P2P in check and wins product of the year
Akonix L7 is a software gateway that protects networks against the dangers of public instant messaging (IM) (including AOL AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger), peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing (such as Kazaa and Morpheus), and other Rogue Protocols. 

E-Weeks recent review reports that "eWEEK Labs' tests show that L7 Enterprise will give IT managers far greater IM surveillance capabilities with new enterprise features that make it simple to set policies for IM usage and to view messages in real time  .......... provides extensive control over IM and P2P traffic"
More Info       See the Review in EWeek    Akonix wins Messaging Product of the Year 2003

HIPAA - Lawyers lie in wait - CertifiedMail responds
According to Info Security Magazine, Attorneys nationwide reportedly plan to deploy decoy patients at health care organizations to see if doctors, dentists, hospitals and insurance companies have the policies, procedures and protections that ensure patients' privacy, as required by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Privacy Rules, which went into affect April 14, 2003, require that “A covered entity must have in place appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information".

CertifiedMail Server is designed for demanding secure email communications needs. It is used by healthcare organizations to meet their HIPAA requirements. Financial institutions deploy CertifiedMail Servers to meet GLB Privacy guidelines for delivering sensitive financial documents and trade confirmations. Law firms take advantage of its secure, trackable messaging to deliver intellectual property documents and protect their client's confidentiality. 

In any industry, the CertifiedMail Server saves time and cost when compared to courier-based services and postal mail, and greatly increases the privacy and accountability of communications.
More Information      See the White Paper   

EmailXtender & EMC offer integrated archiving solution for Regulated Industries
DiskXtender and EmailXtender now support EMC Corporation’s new Centera Compliance Edition™ content addressed storage (CAS) solution, a specialized networked storage system designed to meet regulated records retention requirements.

The DiskXtender suite supports the Centera Compliance Edition with automated, policy-based migration of files to Centera, with an option for setting the retention period. This enables any application that keeps its data in files to utilize the Centera Compliance Edition for storing content.

In addition, the  EmailXtender suite combined with Centera Compliance Edition offers a complete email archiving, discovery and retrieval solution aimed at enabling compliance officers and IT administrators to meet the daunting task of managing their organization’s growing deluge of electronic records and communications, while still remaining compliant with tightening records retention regulations.
More Information      How EmailXtender meets SEC regulations

Websense Enterprise 5.5 delivers enhanced Web Filtering, Bandwidth Optimization & Desktop Application Management modules
New features include:

• Dynamic protocol management, which allows IT managers to manage employee access to protocols, such as instant messaging, streaming media and those that tunnel over port 80. Protocols are updated daily via automatic database downloads.
• Real-time analyzer, an easy-to-use reporting tool that gives IT managers an immediate, real-time snapshot of network traffic, including protocols, bandwidth, Web sites visited and more.
• File-type management, helping customers manage employee downloading of various file types from the Web, grouped into simple, point-and-click categories. File types are also updated daily via automatic database downloads.
• Central policy distribution, an additional feature that allows large corporations and distributed enterprises to quickly and easily “push out” centralized Websense policies to multiple Websense servers.
• Trend and risk reporting, the expansion of Websense Reporter that allows customers to monitor Internet traffic trends and highlight specific risks related to employee Web surfing and other activities.

Bandwidth Optimizer, an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features including:

• Dynamic shaping of network traffic, which provides a means for IT managers to set reasonable limits on non-work-related bandwidth use until network conditions allow more open access.
• Adaptive traffic management, allowing IT managers to ensure business-related traffic flows smoothly, while taking a user-friendly approach to non-work-related requests.
• Flexible policies by protocol and category, helping IT managers block access to high-bandwidth media by content category, protocol, user, group and network policy.

Client Application Manager (CAM), also an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features such as:

• Desktop application management, a productivity- and security-enhancing feature that allows IT managers to set centrally managed policies on which applications can run on individual desktops by category, user, group or network. As an example, IT managers can allow employees to open gaming applications only during lunch hours, while denying access to spyware and rogue executable applications at all times.
• Desktop lockdown, a powerful feature that allows IT managers to secure certain desktops by only allowing authorized applications, scripts and executable programs to run. All other executables, not known by the central policy server, are blocked.
• Outbreak mode, a feature that helps IT managers halt the spread of viruses, worms, and rogue executable programs and applications in real time, by being able to prevent the launch of a particular filename across the enterprise.

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