Instant Messaging and Presence for Secure Environments

Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence applications are now in wide use. In a new free-to-access whitepaper on the Isode website we consider their application in environments where security is of paramount concern, such as Government and Military deployments.

In particular the paper looks at:

• Distributed deployment
• Relationship to Directory
• Security Labels and Clearance
• Strong Authentication and Digital Signatures

The paper shows how an XMPP based solution can address these areas and looks at standards that need to be put in place to meet the security requirements discussed in this paper.

The first version of Isode's XMPP server, M-Link, was released with Isode R14.2 last month.

"Instant Messaging and Presence for Secure Environments" can be found here.