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Best Practices for IM Archiving and Compliance

Overview This document offers an overview of best practices for managing instant messaging as a record of business. It explores the current regulatory environment and explains what's involved in developing appropriate IM policies. The paper highlights:

The explosive growth of IM in the enterprise
The message retention requirements outlined in HIPAA, SOX, and other regulations
Best practices in IM logging, archiving, and discovery

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Symantec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2006	Downloads	16
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security, IM, Best Practices, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Merrill Lynch blocks outside ISPs...

The policy will also affect access to outside message boards, chat rooms and forums, and any access to accounts from ISPs. Other investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, have similar company-wide policies.

Channel:
WebWatch

Flirting, pornography and bad language - how staff use IM

Instead, organisations need clear usage policies - as with email and telephone - combined with filtering and logging of IM. Hawthorn said: "There have to be usage policies that people are aware of. Workers admit to using instant messaging (IM) in...

Through the fog... Will IM stand for 'isolated messaging'?

In addition, the use of full auditing tools enabling the logging of sessions is under the control of a central administrator, so minimising the impact of IM being used inappropriately - and so also minimising the risk of legal issues down the line.

Channel:
IM

Should businesses ban Skype?

He told silicon.com: "The real message is not to ban Skype flat-out but if you are going to consider its use, then rein it in or lock it down, the same as you would with IM. If IT managers want to allow Skype in the workplace, they should develop...

Channel:
VoIP
Tags:
skype,
voip

Email archiving lapses spell corporate chaos

A worrying 80 per cent - who are bound by data retention laws - are failing to delete records after the requisite time. Policies need to be resolved between records managers and IT departments and if necessary investments made in information...

Channel:
IT Director

Rising IM use poses corporate security risk

The main risks of uncontrolled IM use include a lack of regulatory compliance involving the retention and auditing of communications; the lack of encryption to protect confidential data being exposed in IM; and the danger that staff will use IM to...

Channel:
Security Strategy
Tags:
gartner,
im

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

Publisher:
EMC

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

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This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and file servers.

Publisher:
EMC

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