Challenges:
According to IDC, globally nearly 80 percent of enterprises have issues with information security and risk management. Among the companies IDC examined, less than half conduct routine security audits. Only 30 percent are able to track user activity, and only 30 percent encrypt data in transit. Reports have indicated that, most of the time, information security breaches occur from inside organizations and are often the result of lax security management. The Internet is giving staff more options every day. On the one hand, it facilitates workflow, but on the other it is also a source of non-work related entertainment. Staff may find it hard to resist the temptation of entertainment during office hours and thus reduce their productivity. Internet entertainment during work hours is a reality. In fact, the first thing employees often do when reporting to work is to check their personal emails and chat online. Many employees spend time performing online stock trading. All these behaviors result in not just increased bandwidth consumption but also reduced organizational productivity and effectiveness.

Our Solutions:
  P2P blocking: SANGFOR IAM’s in-depth content analysis technology can completely block common P2P software. SANGFOR IAM’s unique intelligent P2P recognition technology can also fully control encrypted BitTorrent and uncommon or unknown P2P variant. Given that some staff might legitimately use P2P for business purposes, SANGFOR IAM provides P2P traffic control functions while fully blocking unauthorized usage. Different users can be assigned different P2P application blocking, bandwidth allocation and traffic control parameters, based on time; thus, SANGFOR IAM can effectively optimize internal enterprise infrastructure and improve business efficiency.

  Specific application control: SANGFOR IAM collects software types and version information based on an always-updated network application software. It continuously updates its own application rule recognition database. Currently, the SANGFOR IAM application rule recognition database contains over 500 application protocol rules, with dozens of them being regularly and continuously updated. SANGFOR also has a professional application rule recognition management team. All these resources mean SANGFOR IAM can precisely identify and effectively manage all network application behaviors.

  Selective content filtering: SANGFOR IAM has a built-in URL database with tens of millions of entries under 50 categories. This allows IT administrators to easily control and block non-work related entertainment Websites, with the added flexibility of manually adding new categories and URLs. SANGFOR IAM can also filter large files (downloaded or uploaded using FTP or HTTP) based on criteria, such as file extensions, to further manage business bandwidth.

  Differentiated user authorization: SANGFOR IAM can assist in human resources management by controlling network access at the user, user group, and departmental levels across the entire organization.