Vantage

Secure and Enable Real Time and Unified Communications

Vantage is the de facto platform for granular security, policy controls and compliance features for real time and unified communications (UC) – providing management for the widest variety of UC and real time communications platforms; including Microsoft OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime, public instant messaging platforms such as Windows Live and Skype, web conferencing and industry focused networks like Reuters, Bloomberg and YellowJacket.

Vantage is used by the world's largest firms to ensure security, management and compliance for Unified Communications - from presence and instant messaging to conferencing and voice – to safely enhance business productivity and responsiveness without endangering network security

Download the Vantage datasheet

Vantage also maintains an integrated trust relationship with Unified Security Gateway (USG) allowing organizations to ensure that only sanctioned access to real time communications is allowed.

Key capabilities of Vantage include:

• Security
• Management
• Compliance

Security

• Block SpIM using a combination of patent-pending techniques
• Day-zero worm blocking of virus attacks that use real-time communications channels
• Virus Scan file transfers, including those over OCS and Sametime using existing AV installations
• Block file transfer or allow (archiving if required) with imposed file size limits
• Patent pending anti-SpIM technology protects bandwidth
• Support for securing Skype IM chat, preventing file transfer over Skype, scan content of IM
• Prevent loss of intellectual property and confidential information by:
  • Routing employee communications over public IM networks internally,
  • Blocking messages using keyword watch list, advanced keyword patterns and full regular expressions
  • Content scanning of file transfers of popular file types, including Microsoft Office and other applications
  • Protecting and blocking encrypted files and controlling what file types can be sent internally or externally
• Enforce Data Leak Prevention through
  • Scan contents of all popular file types including Microsoft Office and other leading software applications
  • Allows policy enforcement through restricted phrase matching
  • Detects and blocks encrypted files
  • Controls the types of files that can be sent internally or externally

Management

• Control mobile workers use of enterprise IM applications on Blackberry devices
• Associate employees ID in the corporate directory with IM buddy names
• Support for AOL Identity Services (including Triton) and MSN Connect
• IP-based access controls enforce policies based on endpoint IP addresses
• Real-time usage reports and graphical monitoring
• Secure, intuitive Web-based access to configuration controls
• OCS Call Admission Control (CAC); control audio, video and collaboration sessions
• Capture OCS session data and custom location information
• Policy setting by domain based groups, group-to-group policies and also "registered non-employees"
• Manage file transfer, collaboration (e.g., audio/video conferencing, games, VoIP), and other client privileges at the company, group and user levels for all real-time communications services
• Full management, security and compliance support for Blackberry users within a Sametime environment
• Audit within both OCS and Sametime environments
• Microsoft Live Meeting event and activity support, configurable Poison Room settings

Compliance

100% guaranteed accurate binary archiving of all real-time communications, including user sign on/off history, multi-party chat participation and file transfers

Prevent data tampering with a checksum of time-stamped messages, ensuring exported conversations match recorded conversations.

• Compliance disclaimers, ethical walls, archiving and auditing for OCS Group Chat
• "Poison Room" policies for ethical walls enforcement, archiving and reporting in Live Meeting
• Monitors PIN and SMS messages through Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Reuters Messaging, Bloomberg and YellowJacket import capability
• Customizable chat disclaimers
• Auditing of Sametime announcements
• IM compliance logging of messages exchanged over Skype with granular management of Skype clients and features
• Auditing of Microsoft OCS events for audio video and Live Meeting events, including start, end, participant, join and leave events
• Assign and enforce regulatory compliance features at the company, group and individual employee levels
• Reporting of Public IM conversations conducted over UC clients
• Configure ethical walls to restrict intergroup and inter-organization contact
• Sophisticated compliance workflow process with content monitoring, review cycles and custom search queries
• 360-degree audit of all users including system administrators and content reviewers
• Advanced text search for easy and efficient retrieval of IM transcripts for e-Discovery
• Seamless integration with common email archive and WORM storage systems
• File transfer archival support, includes OCS and Sametime
• MindAlign 2007 persistent chat transcript import capability

Download the Vantage datasheet