Disclaimer statements are used to notify individuals that their instant messaging
sessions are
being monitored for corporate security reasons. IM Security inserts the disclaimer statement into the instant messaging window when
a user initiates a new instant message session, or when a new user joins a current
session. IM Security sends disclaimers to all persons
(internal and external) involved in the instant message session.
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Internal/External user definitions: IM Security supports disclaimers for both internal and external users. IM Security defines internal users as
those users that have been added to the Selected Internal Users list in
the Disclaimer Settings screen. IM Security considers all other users
external.
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Internal/External sessions: IM Security categorizes instant messaging sessions as being either internal or
external. IM Security considers an
instant messaging session to be internal when all of the users participating in the
session
belong to the Selected Internal Users list. If one or more of the users
is not on the Selected Internal Users list, IM Security categorizes the session as
external. IM Security will recategorize
the session as new users join the session or old users leave the session. One exception
is that
if there are three users, two of which are internal and one external. If the external
user
leaves the conversation, IM Security
will not recategorize the session to internal.
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Note
As a rule, if one or more of the users are not on the Selected Internal
Users list, IM Security
categorizes the session as external.
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