Symantec Announces Latest IM Protection

According to the company, this solution enables organizations to control the use of public IM services and enterprise RTC platforms and manage compliance with legal and corporate governance policies. A key component of Symantec's Enterprise Messaging Management solution portfolio, Symantec IM Manager, is scheduled to be available in APAC in May.

The company says that IM Manager 8.0 provides powerful, new, proactive threat protection and remediation, that secures the real-time communications infrastructure, against external threats such as worms, spam, viruses, phishing and other unwanted content. It provides the industry's only behavior-based and network anomaly monitoring system, to preempt IM threat outbreaks before they occur, while leveraging the largest real-time global community, to identify and validate the most current IM threats.