Symantec IMS.cloud

The Symantec company started in November, 2011 a new cloud service of Instant Messaging Security.cloud (IMS.cloud) for corporate customers which is designed to resolve security issues and personal data protection when conducting correspondence by employees through instant messaging systems (Internet pagers). As the Symantec company promises, new service automatically blocks any messages which have the harmful contents or break corporate policy.

The Symantec IMS.cloud system scans messages and investments of Internet pagers on presence of viruses, blocks sending and obtaining links to the harmful websites, protects the organizations from date leak and also keeps the detailed magazine of all messages for the purpose of observance of legislative standards for information storage. The most remarkable in this solution, extremely useful to corporate clients, is an opportunity to carry out all stated tasks without purchase of the additional hardware and the software on the platform of the customer.

The IMS.cloud service is intended for scanning of each message sent or accepted by the staff of the organization. Except scanning of messages and investments on viruses and malicious URLs, compliance of these messages to the mode of treatment of information admitted to the organizations is checked. If a system considers the message suspicious on any of signs, transfer will be automatically blocked, and the notification will be sent to the user.

According to specialists Symantec, many organizations consider Internet pagers something frivolous, and still many organizations do not pay due attention to security of Internet pagers as channel of external communication. As a result such organizations remain defenseless against risks of violation of standards, date leak and virus epidemics. The IMS.cloud system helps to cope with these risks, and users save an opportunity for work with this modern instrument of communication, and their employers keep calm as protection is provided by service of the known and authoritative company.

Services of IMS.cloud service can be purchased separately on a subscription or in combination with other services from a series of Symantec.cloud for protection of e-mail and access to web pages. The subscription to IMS.cloud service offers 24/7 support and regular updating of components of service without participation of customers.