Download White Paper: Security and Compliance for UC and Collaboration Environments--Microsoft Lync/OCS

Traditional security measures are no match for today’s modern communication tools. Many legitimate applications use evasive techniques such as port hopping, protocol tunneling and encryption. In addition, some use Peer to Peer connections. Skype, for instance, uses a peer to peer connection and is encrypted end to end, often even tunneling through HTTP/port 80 if that is the only port/protocol that it finds open on the firewall, negating the use of an URL filtering solution to control it.

Aside from the obvious hazard of malware using this unauthorized channel to subversively enter the network, deploying Lync/OCS without the means to enforce other communication channels from being used adds the danger that organizations are not monitoring everything that leaves the network. Add to this a lack of management to consistently enforce disclaimers, manage content filtering and provide granular control over all internet communications and it is clear that releasing the full potential of unified communications and collaboration requires specialist technology to meet the security, management and compliance issues created when deploying a UC platform.

This white paper addresses the security, management and compliance issues created when deploying a UC platform such as Lync/OCS and explains how Actiance enables organizations to safely realize the full potential of unified communications and collaboration.

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