Unified Security Gateway
Unified Security Gateway is a secure Web gateway appliance that enables organisations to integrate management, security and compliance of Web usage, greynet applications such as public IM, Skype and P2P, and enterprise-class unified communications platforms such as Microsoft’s OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime.
Internet communications are evolving from email and web browsing to real-time, presence-oriented communications that includes both public and enterprise Instant Messaging, Skype, web conferencing, and P2P file sharing. Employees are driving the use of these applications, and consumer technologies are proliferating across corporate networks, creating heterogeneous environments that must be managed and secured by IT. Their widespread use poses security and compliance risks for the organization.
Secure Web Gateway for Today's Internet
The FaceTime Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a secure Web gateway appliance that enables enterprises to control real-time communications. USG integrates management, security and compliance of Web communications, consumer-driven greynet applications such as public IM, Skype and P2P, and enterprise-class Unified Communications suites such as Microsoft's Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. From a single platform, organizations can enable and enforce safe and productive use of these applications and protect the network against inbound malware, mitigate information leakage risks, and insure corporate, regulatory and e-discovery needs are met.
The Unified Security Gateway integrates FaceTime's best in class IM hygiene, IM logging and archiving, gateway malware protection and Web filtering in a purpose-built, hardened appliance. With this single point of control, organizations can gain complete visibility of all Internet communications and reduce total cost of ownership using a simpler solution that is easily administered by the IT staff. Key capabilities of USG include:
- Centralized policy management and control - single solution for setting and enforcing policy for all elements of UC and IM in use in the enterprise
- Content hygiene and security - virus scanning of file attachments, worm blocking, spIM protection and keyword content filtering for both UC-generated as well as federated public Instant Messaging
- Regulatory compliance archiving and workflow - guaranteed logging of all UC and public Instant Messaging communications including capture and archival of file attachments, tamper resistant storage of messages, and robust and easy-to-use review and audit capabilities
- Easy administration and management - browser-based management interface for policy configuration, compliance workflow and message retrieval for e-discovery
- Web security - powerful policies to control web access, prevent malware at the gateway, and obtain complete visibility over Web communications
- Flexible Reporting - improved decision-making about security issues and Internet usage through integrated real-time reporting and monitoring, and compatibility with leading third-party reporting applications
Key Features:
Gateway Web Security
- Protects against spyware, rootkits, botnets coming over real-time channels.
- Enforces corporate acceptable usage policies for web access
- Blocks access to infected websites
- Prevents web-based threats propagating through other real-time channels
- Targeted agentless remediation of infected, non-compliant endpoints
Instant Messaging Security
- Prevent circumvention of EIMs such as Microsoft LCS/OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime.
- Blocks day-zero worms with challenge-response and message throttling
- Prevents data leakage with granular filtering and file transfer blocking
- Block risky, bandwidth-consuming SpIM
- Scan file transfers over IM using existing anti-virus infrastructure.
- Location-aware policy enforcement using endpoint IP addresses
- Maps public IM buddy names to user names in enterprise directory
Management
- Visibility and control for more than 40 IM and 65 P2P applications
- Unified policy management and enforcement for all real-time Internet traffic
- Filter over 21 million sites in 54 predefined categories and more than 7 million URLs according to 73 predefined categories
- Granular control at group and user levels for location-independent policy enforcement
- Leverage directory structures for policy enforcement at user/group levels
- Integration with existing infrastructure with zero latency.
- Pre-defined and customizable reports in multiple output formats.
- Secure management console for centralized configuration, management, and reporting
- Supports use of external database for policies, logging and archival for scalability and availability
Compliance
- Tamper-proof logging and archival for compliance and e-discovery requirements.
- Create ethical boundaries by setting policies at user/group level for IM usage
- Leverage and integrate with existing message archival solutions for comprehensive enterprise messaging insight
- End user disclaimers to educate users and meet legal, audit and regulatory requirements
- Configure rich compliance workflow to easily retrieve stored information.
- Archive actual files transferred over IM for comprehensive review and audit process.
- Record PIM conversations conducted over EIM clients in federated environments
