• Virus infiltration
  
• Bandwidth consumption
  
• Legal liability
  
• Productivity loss
  
• Understanding the Risks

All Internet content carries a risk. Though seemingly innocuous, instant message and P2P programs can allow destructive viruses to penetrate your network, in addition to providing a backdoor for hackers to access your company's confidential information–and that of your customers.

You can also optimize your network performance by redirecting your bandwidth to more important business-related traffic instead of large music files or unlicensed software downloads.

We help minimize your exposure to the legal liability resulting from inadvertent or intentional data leakage, the exchange of offensive material, and copyright infringement.

Once you install our Instant Message Filter, you will see a marked improvement in employee productivity as more time is spent working instead of chatting with friends and downloading files.

A Directed Response
As illustrated above, the rapid growth of public IM and P2P use by employees–often without IT administrators' knowledge–can be a serious detriment to your network. The solution: SurfControl Instant Message Filter. We can protect your data and network by limiting or blocking access to unauthorized public IM and P2P programs, down to a unique IP address, group, or sub-network.

With SurfControl Instant Message Filter, you can identify and intelligently manage all major public IM and P2P communications by selectively blocking IM and P2P services, including:

Public IM Protocols
AOL Instant Messenger
MSN Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
ICQ
SameTime/AOL (AIM)

Peer-to-Peer
Gnutella Network (Morpheus, BearShare, Phex, Gnucleus, LimeWire, others)
FastTrack Network (Grokster and Kazaa)
WinMX (WinMX and OpenNapster)
BitTorrent (BitTorrent, Shereaza, Personal Torrent Collector, BitTornado, Bee Tee Plus Plus, Azureus, Effusion)