Press Release

FaceTime is First to Enable Secure Local Authentication for the AOL® Instant Messenger™ (AIM®) Service

Newest Version of IMAuditor Offers Most Secure Password Authentication in Local Network and Message Encryption for the AIM Service

FOSTER CITY, CA - March 21, 2005 - FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, today announced that its long-time partner, America Online, Inc, has chosen FaceTime once again to offer an industry first to its customers. FaceTime is the first company that AOL has entrusted with the responsibility and authority to federate with its messaging network. The new capability in FaceTime's IMAuditor server will process, authenticate and manage customers' passwords and identification information within their local networks thus removing the requirement to send this confidential data through the Internet to AOL. In addition, FaceTime will provide the trusted technology that decrypts and logs encrypted messages sent over the AIM service to enable secure, compliant enterprise instant messaging practices.

"Entrusting passwords for the AIM service to a third party is a major responsibility," said Brian Curry, vice president, AOL Premium and Subscription Services, America Online, Inc. "This announcement indicates the level of trust we have in FaceTime and the strength of their technology to securely authenticate and manage passwords and IDs, as well as log and decrypt encrypted messages sent through the AOL® messaging network. FaceTime has done a great job of bringing the highest level of security to the AIM service as its use grows in the workplace."

With this announcement, FaceTime introduces IMAuditor 5.2, which extends the enforcement of information security and corporate and regulatory compliance policies to IM occurring among employees with those external to the corporate network. With IMAuditor 5.2, customers will benefit from increased security and improved performance by authenticating their Screen Names and passwords on the AIM service on premise and completely within their own corporate networks.

"Our strong, historical partnership with America Online and robust solutions for the AIM service have led to FaceTime's selection as the first IM security and management provider to offer local authentication, message decryption and logging for customers using the AIM service," said Christopher Dean, senior vice president of Business Development for FaceTime Communications. "We are pleased to enable customers to continue leveraging the value of IM while ensuring stringent compliance regulations are met with a secure, end-to-end encryption solution."

In addition to IMAuditor's information security and management capabilities, including: IM logging, auditing, and reporting; administration of segmented usage policies; controlled dissemination and protection of sensitive corporate data; challenge-response spim control and virus scanning for file transfers, IMAuditor 5.2 offers the ability to display formatting and graphics in message reports. This enables customers to save the full context of messages including formatting for the most accurate and complete record of all instant messages.

"America Online's decision to allow FaceTime to manage customers' network authorization behind the firewall, coupled with FaceTime's ability to send instant messages securely through the AOL messaging network, will significantly enhance network security for enterprises that use the AIM service," said Michael Osterman, of Osterman Research. "Local authentication and encryption are key components in making IM a more useful and secure business tool."

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.

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