Sigaba Secure IM Software Testing for Finance, Healthcare, and Government

Sigaba Corp. has extended a test of a secure instant messaging product to include more financial services, health care and government organizations. The company will unveil its Sigaba Secure Instant Messaging software in April 2003 but wants to make sure the . . . Sigaba Corp. has extended a test of a secure instant messaging product to include more financial services, health care and government organizations. The company will unveil its Sigaba Secure Instant Messaging software in April 2003 but wants to make sure the product meets its customers' real-world requirements, according to Tanya Candia, Sigaba's vice president of marketing.

The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has received significant feedback from early beta testing, enabling it to add features that take the product beyond the chat capabilities of existing enterprise IM products, Candia said.

The use of IM and collaborative software is rising and information technology managers are trying to manage employee usage of it, especially because many of the consumer-based IM software products lack security features, according to industry analysts.

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