FaceTime Security Labs
FaceTime Security Labs is the industry's largest research team dedicated to
identifying, collection, analysis, understanding, and management of
greynets and threats coming through them. With facilities in the United
States (West Virginia and California), the United Kingdom, and India, FaceTime
Security Labs employs dozens of dedicated researchers and supports a global
community of concerned individuals who contribute their own experiences to the
research effort.
FaceTime Security Labs also maintains the newly introduced
GreynetsGuide.com and
the popular SpywareGuide.com.
GreynetsGuide.com is a comprehensive reference
center to help enterprise network administrators better understand evasive and
consumer-oriented applications like public IM clients, P2P file-sharing,
anonymizers IPTV and consumer VoIP that are increasingly being adopted by
employees. The site details the source, behavior and effective removal tools
for more than 600 greynet applications of concern to IT managers.
FaceTime Security Labs provides the foundation for complete analysis of greynets
applications and strategies to secure the use of these applications from
inbound and outbound threats by delivering detailed information about known
threats that enable organizations to:
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Manage the use of legitimate greynets applications
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Block P2P network use that could breach corporate security policy
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Prevent malware from being accidentally or intentionally downloaded by users
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Secure instant messaging against worms, Trojans, malware and rootkits
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Remain in compliance with data privacy and information security legislation
The Labs also power the patent-pending inoculation and targeted remediation
capabilities that keep clients malware-free.
FaceTime Security Labs provides the foundation for FaceTime's security and
management solutions for greynets and defense-in-depth
malware prevention strategy, delivering detailed information about
known threats that enable the blocking of spyware distribution sites as well as
powering the patent-pending
innoculation and targeted remediation capabilities that keep clients
malware-free.
Spywareguide.com is the leading public reference site for spyware research,
providing details about spyware and adware applications, their known variants,
and their behavior through an extensive and continually updated database. The
site also offers a wealth of information to enable both IT professionals and
home computer users to educate themselves on the problems and risks associated
with spyware.
Since April 2005, FaceTime Security Labs has published the
IMPact Index™ - a real-time data point that enables information
security professionals to quickly and easily assess the current risk posed by
malware - viruses and worms as well as spyware - propagating through real-time
communication channels.
SpywareGuide.com publishes the
SG Index™ which rates the privacy and corporate risks associated
with different types of spyware applications, using factors such as
distribution methodologies, transmission protocols, pre- and post-installation
behaviors and degree of stealth to determine individual threat levels.
FaceTime's spyware research base is the result of seven years' working with
customers to identify and address problems associated with greynet
applications. Every instance reported by a customer is analyzed by the team and
incorporated as appropriate into the company's spyware database, enabling every
customer to immediately take advantage of new detection and remediation through
automated updates.
By combining analysis of all greynet applications from IM to P2P to spyware, the
FaceTime Security Labs team is uniquely well-equipped to provide organizations
with the information they need to make informed choices about application
behavior that will and will not be tolerated on their networks.
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