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Press Release
FateTime Wins Prestigious SC Magazine "Best Buy" Award
Dedicated instant messaging security solution outperforms the competition
London, UK - September 20 , 2005 - FaceTime Communications has been
awarded SC Magazine's "Best Buy" a year after it achieved the "Recommended"
award in a similar instant messaging (IM) group test against seven other
vendors. This achievement reconfirms FaceTime's Enterprise Edition product
suite, consisting of IMauditor and RTGuardian, as the leading provider of
solutions that secure, manage, and extend IM applications. SC Magazine hailed
the FaceTime solution for being a "powerful and highly configurable
enterprise-level system with the features to match."
During rigorous testing SC Magazine analyzed how well each of the eight
products provided secure access to private and public IM systems. Features
including content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam and auditing were compared.
FaceTime beat seven other vendors including Akonix, Bluecoat, Sybari and
Websense to come out on top of the independent review.
"Our reviews process is very stringent," said Jon Tullett, global technology
editor at SC Magazine. "Any product that scores high marks with us, and gets a
'Best Buy' rating, really is worthy of consideration by prospective customers."
"It is a great honor to have be recognized two years in a row by an independent
authority on IT security such as SC Magazine," said FaceTime CTO and VP of
Products Jonathan Christensen. "As our customers and other messaging security
experts will attest, the FaceTime 'defense-in-depth' approach is the only way
businesses can safely benefit from the competitive advantages of IM."
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.
IM, along with spyware and P2P applications are part of a category of
unsanctioned networked applications that FaceTime calls 'greynets.' Greynet
applications are downloaded and installed on end user systems, without express
permission from, or awareness by IT (and often without even the end user's
awareness - as with spyware) and then use evasive techniques to traverse the
network.
FaceTime's RTG500 and IMAuditor™ work together to provide 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.
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.
About SC Magazine
SC Magazine is a global information security magazine published by Haymarket
Business Publications Ltd. It is read in over 50 countries worldwide and has a
circulation of approximately 100,000. There are three separate editions of the
magazine: (a) North America - USA and Canada, (b) International - UK and
mainland Europe, and (c) Asia Pacific Online, read by decision-makers in over
20 countries in the Pacific Rim region. The magazine is published monthly,
usually in the first week of each month. The magazine is the longest running
information security magazine in the world, with the widest distribution.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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