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Securing Unified Communications: From Consumer-Based IM to Enterprise Collaboration and Beyond

In an attempt to control the situation, many large organizations are deploying unified communications platforms such as Microsoft Office Communication Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. However, the consumer-grade applications and networks are not going away. FaceTime research has found that three out of four employees in organisations where enterprise IM platform has been deployed continue to use public instant messaging systems from providers such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Google....


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MiFID Compliance in the Real-Time Enterprise

Most organizations involved in trading financial instruments or providing financial advisory services are subject to MiFID requirements; this includes all organizations currently covered by the Investment Services Directive (ISD).

For the IT departments of these organizations, a key requirement of MiFID relates to the handling of electronic communications (defined as including, but not limited to, fax, email, chat, and IM) covering the receipt of client orders and the negotiation, agreement, and arrangement of transactions across equity, bond, and financial commodity and derivatives markets. Specifically...


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The Impact of the New FRCP Amendments on Your Business

This white paper focuses on the new FRCP amendments and the impact that they will have on organizations of all sizes. This document has been sponsored by a variety of organisations.
An Osterman Research White Paper.


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The Rise of Greynets: Unsanctioned End User Applications and Their Impact on Enterprise Security

Enabling real-time communication has become a core requirement for IT infrastructures. Today’s generation of workforce entrants expects instant messaging, Web conferencing, Voice over IP, and social networking to be “always on”. The edge of the network is rapidly moving outwards to include the broader community of customers and trading partners, and end users are in the driving seat, bringing these applications into the enterprise without corporate IT consent. FaceTime Communications calls these applications “Greynets.”


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Ensuring Security and Compliance in an IBM Lotus Sametime Environment

The increased use of real-time communications in the enterprise today is challenging existing security, network, legal, and compliance policies and infrastructures. The traditional enterprise Internet security infrastructure – designed for well-behaved applications that use standard ports and protocols - is not equipped to manage the new generation of threats that use port hopping, tunneling and masquerading techniques. Enterprise implementations of Sametime are not immune to these new threats...


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Spyware Prevention: Effective Network Protection Through Defense in Depth

This white paper takes a long, hard look at what’s really happening in the spyware underworld, brings together expert opinions on the impact spyware can and does have on corporate networks, and shows how FaceTime’s multi-layered Enterprise Spyware Prevention Suite delivers the only viable solution...


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