02-09-2017, 04:49 PM
Secure instant messaging is a form of instant messaging. Both terms refer to an informal means for computer users to exchange messages commonly referred to as "chat". Instant messaging can be compared to text messages instead of making a mobile phone call. In the case of messaging, it is like the short form of email. Secure instant messaging is a specialized form of instant messaging that, along with other differences, encrypts and decrypts the content of the messages in such a way that only the real users can understand them.
Instant messaging has existed in one form or another for decades. Generally, it is a process by which users in a computer network can quickly communicate with each other using short text-based sentences instead of using e-mail. Each user has a piece of software that communicates with a common server that connects the chat sessions. In recent years, two different configurations for the use of instant messaging have evolved.
The first is the corporate or institutional environment composed of many potential users, but all are under the same organizational framework.
The second setting is individual "after work" or home users who do not have a mission-oriented fellowship between them but are most likely family and friends.
In the corporate context, security risks are evident from the start. The reverse of that would be the dissatisfied employee example downloading some viruses or spyware onto your machine inside the corporate firewall to free as desired. As a result, organizational offerings have become very sophisticated in their security and registration measures. Typically, an employee or member of the organization must have appropriate access and permissions to use the messaging system. This creation of a specific account for each user allows the organization to identify, track and record all the use of their messaging system on their servers.
The specialized requirements of the organizational messaging system, however, work almost completely against what an individual user may need. In general, instant messengers of non-organizational use advertise their availability to the Internet in general so others can know if that person is online. The trend has been too much that manufacturers of instant messaging clients offer interoperability with third-party customers.
This competitive advantage arose from the use of patented communications protocols used by customer manufacturers so far. Compatibility between clients is likely to become almost universal, as a unified messaging protocol (the Messaging and Presence Extension Protocol (XMPP)) is being adopted by more and more manufacturers. The XMPP has been, at least in part, formalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force such as RFC 6120, RFC 6121 and RFC 6122 which will promote the trend toward standardization of instant messaging.
Instant messaging has existed in one form or another for decades. Generally, it is a process by which users in a computer network can quickly communicate with each other using short text-based sentences instead of using e-mail. Each user has a piece of software that communicates with a common server that connects the chat sessions. In recent years, two different configurations for the use of instant messaging have evolved.
The first is the corporate or institutional environment composed of many potential users, but all are under the same organizational framework.
The second setting is individual "after work" or home users who do not have a mission-oriented fellowship between them but are most likely family and friends.
In the corporate context, security risks are evident from the start. The reverse of that would be the dissatisfied employee example downloading some viruses or spyware onto your machine inside the corporate firewall to free as desired. As a result, organizational offerings have become very sophisticated in their security and registration measures. Typically, an employee or member of the organization must have appropriate access and permissions to use the messaging system. This creation of a specific account for each user allows the organization to identify, track and record all the use of their messaging system on their servers.
The specialized requirements of the organizational messaging system, however, work almost completely against what an individual user may need. In general, instant messengers of non-organizational use advertise their availability to the Internet in general so others can know if that person is online. The trend has been too much that manufacturers of instant messaging clients offer interoperability with third-party customers.
This competitive advantage arose from the use of patented communications protocols used by customer manufacturers so far. Compatibility between clients is likely to become almost universal, as a unified messaging protocol (the Messaging and Presence Extension Protocol (XMPP)) is being adopted by more and more manufacturers. The XMPP has been, at least in part, formalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force such as RFC 6120, RFC 6121 and RFC 6122 which will promote the trend toward standardization of instant messaging.