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Partner Solution Brief

Vantage from Actiance supports secure management of real-time platforms, including Lync Server 2010.

Business Needs connections and begin to Partner: Actiance With the increasing use of dissolve the boundaries of the Website: www.Actiance.com instant messaging and network, their real-time Partner Size: 130 employees collaboration, organizations communications systems face Country or Region: United States need to protect themselves from Industry: Software several security concerns. These threats, including malware and threats, which can bypass Partner Profile leakage of intellectual property. traditional security measures, Based in Belmont, California, Actiance They also must ensure that they include increasingly damaging provides security, management, and can meet compliance regulations compliance solutions for instant malware attacks, spam over IM, that apply to all forms of messaging and unified communications and leakage of intellectual platforms. The company’s award-winning messaging. property and other confidential products and solutions are used by more information through than 1,500 customers—including nine of Many organizations in industries unmonitored channels. the ten largest U.S. banks and the top such as financial services have five Canadian banks. Close cooperation between Actiance and Microsoft ensures customers that also use several In response to these threats and smooth deployment and integration of instant messaging (IM) to comply with industry Actiance solutions into Microsoft network platforms. They range from regulations, companies must infrastructures. public IM systems like Yahoo IM enhance their ability to secure

and to the specialized and manage their unified networks such as Reuters and communications platforms. Bloomberg for the financial services industry. Given the array Solution of communications modalities, Vantage from Actiance provides customers need to apply security security, management, and and compliance controls compliance controls for consistently across all platforms. Microsoft Lync Server 2010. For more information about Actiance Vantage helps improve security products and services, visit the website at: In addition, as organizations with measures including www.Actiance.com move toward federated technologies to block spam over

IM as well as viruses such as day- Benefits Compliance with Industry zero worms. It helps prevent the Regardless of the environment’s Regulations loss of confidential information by complexity, Vantage offers Vantage provides logging, routing employee unmatched synergies with Lync archiving, and reporting of communications internally, Server 2010. Enterprises can unified communications events blocking messages using a maximize their investment in and IM transcripts, including the keyword watch list, scanning the unified communications with full capture of metadata and file content of file transfers, and enhanced security and transfers. Customers can use protecting or blocking encrypted compliance controls across a existing SQL database resources files. variety of IM and collaboration for storage of all real-time platforms. Vantage also communications. With Vantage, Vantage promotes better reinforces and strengthens native companies can accurately and management by capturing Lync Lync Server controls so completely log real-time Server 2010 session data; making administrators can effectively communications and present it possible for administrators to monitor and manage real-time them in an appropriate format set policies for domain-based communications. Benefits for eDiscovery. groups, group-to-group include the following: communications, and registered Policy Management Flexibility non-employees; and controlling Security Enhancements Policies can be applied at the mobile workers’ use of enterprise Vantage works with Lync Server global, group, or user levels with IM applications on their remote 2010 to help secure real-time either IP-based or domain-based devices. communications channels on policies. Policies can be extended several fronts. For instance, to federations as well, and The solution promotes Vantage’s anti-malware engine ethical walls can be applied compliance with recordkeeping prevents rootkits and other consistently across all regulations through the accurate exploits from infiltrating the communications modalities. binary archiving of all real-time enterprise. Additionally, files communications, including user transferred through IM are sign-on/off history, multiparty scanned automatically with the chat participation, and file existing anti-virus infrastructure, transfers. Vantage also offers and highly detailed, real-time logging and auditing of Lync content filtering prevents data Server 2010 audio, video, and leakage. Microsoft Live Meeting events, including start, end, participant, join, and leave information.

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Document published October 2010