Assured: The Isode Blog

Server Admin Guides in E-Book format.

Hannah Gibbs — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:36:05 +0000

For many years we’ve issued the Admin Guides for our products as PDFs and occasionally in HTML format. With the increasing popularity of e-book readers, we’ve decided to experiment with issuing some guides as e-books.

On the Documentation Page of the website you’ll see that M-Link and M-Vault Administration Guides are both now available for download in .mobi (for Kindles) and .epub (for iPads as well as Sony, Kobo & Nook readers) formats.

Updates to Military Messaging Solution section

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:32:23 +0000

We’ve replaced our old military messaging solutions page with three new pages designed to give a better overview of the breadth of products for military messaging solutions that we provide.

The new main Military Messaging page provides a brief overview of our products for formal military messaging using STANAG 4406, Instant Messaging using XMPP and Formal and Informal Messaging using SMTP. This page also looks at issues including constrained bandwidth, precedence handlng and digital signatures.

Two new pages go into more depth on our product for STANAG 4406 Military Messaging and Military XMPP.

Easy Security Label Support for Email Clients

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:22:39 +0000

Use of Security Labels is important in many Military and Intelligence organizations to ensure correct handling of information, particularly when it pertains to national security and other highly sensitive matters. Correct handling of Security Labels is complex, and solutions to use them with email generally result in heavyweight desktop solutions. This constrains choice in the email client that can be used, and leads to complexity in desktop configuration.

Our whitepaper ”Easy Security Label Support for Email Clients“ looks at a new approach which minimizes email client complexity, enabling easy support in a wide range of email clients and improving deployment characteristics.

R15.1 Changes & Improvements

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:53:59 +0000

We recently made our latest release, R15.1, available for download. R15.1 has a number of new features and capabilities including:

A new acknowledgements view has been added to MConsole to enable tracking of different types of acknowledgements. A new Quality of Service Daemon has been added, which can issue email alerts for ‘missing’ acknowledgements.
M-Switch can now act as an ACP 145 gateway.
We have made Sodium available as a seperately packaged product, we discussed the implications of this in an earlier blog post. Sodium continues to be included with M-Vault purchases.
Most core M-Link configuration is now be done in M-Link Console, including Multi-Domain configuration, Cluster Configuration and M-Link archive and telemetry log paths.
M-Link Server can now be configured as a HF Operator Chat gateway operating over STANAG 5066, so XMPP users can communicate with servers that support HF Operator Chat, but do not support XMPP operation over STANAG 5066.

A preview release of the new Isode Security Label Server is available with R15.1, it provides a lightweight protocol which gives any application an easy mechanism to look up Security Labels. Management of Security Labels and Security Label Catalogs is handled by Sodium against M-Vault.

Details of all the new R15.1 capabilities can be found on our R15.1 product page (http://www.isode.com/products/r151.html)

M-Vault Benchmarks

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:04:23 +0000

With R15 the central code in our M-Vault server was re-written in order to provide new functionality and significant performance enhancements over R14. A new whitepaper on the Isode website provides benchmark figures for the latest M-Vault release and compares its performance with two well-known alternative LDAP servers.

Read our “M-Vault Benchmarks” whitepaper for more information.