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Press Release
FaceTime RTG500™ Earns SC Magazine's Recommended Award for Best Dedicated
Instant Messaging and Peer-to-peer Security Solution for Large Enterprises
Osterman Research Separately Endorses FaceTime's Defense-in-Depth Approach to
Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer Security
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - September 28, 2004 - FaceTime Communications, the leading
provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM)
and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, today announced SC Magazine, the leading
publication devoted to the business and art of information and computer
security, selected FaceTime's RTG500™ IM and P2P security appliance for the
"Recommended Award" from among eight other industry-leading solutions. SC
Magazine hailed RTG500 for being highly configurable to the needs of the
largest enterprises while touting its detailed reports on bandwidth use,
application behavior and security policy enforcement, and ease of installation.
"Our reviews process is very stringent," said Rene Millman, reviews editor at
SC Magazine. "Any product that scores high marks with us, and gets a
Recommended rating, really is worth of consideration by prospective customers."
The widespread, uncontrolled proliferation of IM and P2P in the enterprise
poses a number of challenges for security and compliance officers, including
those associated with identity management, viruses, worms, buffer overflows,
spyware and adware, the unauthorized dissemination of sensitive corporate data,
fines that result from illegal filesharing, and drained network bandwidth. A
white paper recently published by Osterman Research provides best practice
guidelines for the management of IM and P2P, which recommend a two-point
solution to control unauthorized usage as follows:
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Protect the corporate network at its perimeter by preventing users from
circumventing anti-virus, firewall and other defenses through the use of
consumergrade and other 'public' IM and P2P systems.
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Manage internal use of IM systems so that corporate policies and regulatory
compliance requirements are followed and key corporate resources -
applications, storage, data and other elements - are protected from
unauthorized access.
"FaceTime is the only security provider we've seen employing the two-pronged
approach that is necessary to completely secure IM and P2P in the enterprise,"
said Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research. "By allowing
enterprises to adopt a comprehensive 'defense-in-depth' strategy that elevates
collaboration and productivity while protecting the network and corporate data,
FaceTime is doing much to aid in the evolution of real-time communications in
the workplace."
FaceTime's RTG500 and IMAuditor™ work together to provide IT organizations
with the layered approach that is essential to proper management and security
of all IM and P2P communications. This 'defense-in-depth' approach employs
IMAuditor for IM user policy management on the internal network with RTG500 at
the network perimeter to manage application behavior through deep inspection of
network traffic for protocol analysis that distinguishes between authorized and
unauthorized use. Together, IMAuditor and RTG500 form a complete solution that
aligns all IM and P2P communications with the organization's business
objectives and government regulations requirements.
"It is a great honor to have RTG500 recognized by SC Magazine, one of the
leading authorities on IT security, as an essential component to complete IM
and P2P security in the workplace," said FaceTime CTO and VP of Products
Jonathan Christensen. "As our customers and other messaging security experts
such as Osterman Research will attest, the FaceTime 'defense-in-depth' approach
is the only way businesses can safely benefit from the competitive advantages
of IM."
The Osterman Research white paper, entitled "Managing IM and P2P Threats in the
Enterprise," can be downloaded at
http://www.facetime.com/osterman.
FaceTime will give a presentation on the 'defense-in-depth' approach to
securing IM and P2P as part of a Ziff Davis eSeminar on "Securing IM in the
Enterprise." The eSeminar will take place September 29 at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m.
EST. To register, please visit: http://www.eseminarslive.com/article2/0,2290,1647046,00.asp?partnerref=9/30a.
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM,
Reuters and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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