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Akonix A1000 Appliance

The Akonix A1000 ™ is designed to satisfy the security requirements of small and medium sized businesses at the lowest total cost of ownership. Easy to deploy and administer, the A1000 is designed for environments with limited IT resources.

Implement Protection

Security products designed for internet and email security will not defend against IM attacks. The Akonix A1000 appliance protects networks from viruses, worms and other attacks over IM, controls access to public and enterprise IM, and ensures all IM is logged to meet regulatory requirements for electronic communications.

The Akonix A1000 appliance is a 1-U rack mountable server with a redundant hard drive.

Key Benefits

  • Higher employee productivity
  • Provide safe, secure, compliant use of real-time communications
  • Reduce time wasted in voicemail and repeated phone calls by allowing use of IM with presence
  • Protect employees from losing productive hours due to viruses and worms
  • Enforce policy on use of non-business features of public IM networks
  • Lowest total cost of ownership
  • Fast, simple deployment of rack-mount appliance
  • No need to access operating environment or non-essential services—Akonix Appliance Manager provides all necessary tools and utilities
  • Entry-level pricing for small and medium businesses

Why Akonix A1000?

  • Easy—preconfigured—up and running in 30 minutes—minimal administration, less than 10 minutes per week
  • Control IM user access and activity with user or directory based permissions
  • Uses advanced protocol recognition technology to block even the most elusive IM applications (such as AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ including Web-based clients) and P2P (including eDonkey, IRC, BitTorrent, Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Morpheus, and LimeWire)
  • Recognizes and blocks Skype and other common VoIP applications
  • Dynamically updates to protect the network and end users from IM spyware, worms, viruses, and poison URL’s
  • Integrations: plugs into directory services, AntiVirus engines, and leading email and content archiving systems
  • Supports regulatory compliance of electronic messaging including Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17a-3, and Gramm-Leach-Blilley via auditing, data mining, retrieval, and reporting
  • Enforce real-time content filtering for appropriate use of IM
  • Block or allow file transfers, games, video conferencing, and other IM features
  • Passively monitors network traffic with no impact on network performance
  • Secure—hardened operating system

A1000 appliances are factory configured with the following features

L7 Enterprise: An enterprise-class IM gateway used for mediating access to public and enterprise IM, enforcing policies on appropriate IM use; protecting the network and end users from IM-based viruses and attacks; and monitoring and logging all IM conversations.

L7 Enforcer: Delivers perimeter security that detects and blocks unauthorized use of high-risk and evasive public IM and peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications on enterprise networks.

AkOS ™ Operating System: A-Series appliances, built from the core out, utilize an operating system designed specifically for real-time messaging environments and system security.

Akonix Reporter: Customizable reporting tool provides historical reports on IM usage.

Activity Monitor: A detailed real-time performance focus on IM use within the enterprise. Administrators can launch a series of reports (with easy-to-read charts and tables) highlighting IM performance metrics. This real-time data shows trend lines, visually comparing current usage to historical norms.

Appliance Manager: Allows administrators to easily manage and administer the system, review system logins, audit product and security updates, and manage trace logs.

Database Support: The ability to run the database on-box or off-box in order to best fit into existing environments seamlessly without changes to the customer’s infrastructure. A-Series appliances are factory configured with a PostgreSQL database.