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Press Release
FaceTime Teams with PortAuthority Technologies and Tablus to Provide Unmatched
Information Leak Prevention
SAN JOSE, CALIF. (RSA CONFERENCE - Booth 2037) - February 15, 2006 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions for securing IM, P2P and
spyware Greynets, today announced new partnerships with Tablus and
PortAuthority Technologies to add increased security against content leakage to
its flagship FaceTime Enterprise Edition™ solution.
The two companies join FaceTime's Greynet Security Partners (GSP) Program as
charter members with an information and content leakage focus, and will provide
joint FaceTime customers with essential fingerprinting technologies needed to
identify and prevent confidential information from inappropriately leaving the
organization.
"Instant Messaging, Peer-to-Peer networks, Skype, Spyware and other Greynets
represent the largest, uncontrolled avenues for the loss of sensitive corporate
information," said Srini Gurrapu, Senior Director of Security Products for
FaceTime Communications. "Without the visibility, management and control of
Greynets, organizations are at risk of information and intellectual property
being easily leaked over these networks."
Sensitive information such as personal credit information as specified by the
PCI payment card industry standard, personal health information (PHI),
corporate intellectual property, customer data, and login credentials can
easily expose the organization to business risks and non-compliance. The new
relationships with PortAuthority Technologies and Tablus will provide customers
with integrated solutions for complete visibility and prevention of information
leaks over all popular Internet channels including Web, IM, P2P, and email.
FaceTime will actively collaborate with the program participants for a deeper
level integration of their respective technologies utilizing standards-based
methods such the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) to bring
integrated solutions to market.
"Enterprises and government agencies are using PortAuthority to prevent leaks
of private data and confidential information across multiple communication
channels," said Raj Dhingra, vice president of Product Management and Marketing
at PortAuthority Technologies. "By aligning with FaceTime Communications, our
joint customers can now reduce their data security risk by accurately stopping
sensitive information leaks across instant messaging channels. With
PortAuthority 4.0 and FaceTime Enterprise Edition, companies can confidently
use enterprise-wide instant messaging while keeping the bad stuff out and the
good stuff in."
"Tablus participation in FaceTime's Greynet Security Partners program is a
direct response to customer requests," said Vince Barboni, Tablus' vice
president of Business Development. "When considering the direct correlation
between the growing risk of sensitive information loss - for data at rest, in
use and in motion - and the increased use of Greynet communication channels,
the relationship between Tablus and FaceTime became a natural fit."
IM, P2P and spyware applications are part of a category of networked
applications that FaceTime calls 'Greynets.' Greynets are network-enabled
applications that are installed on an end user's system without permission from
IT and are highly evasive to existing security infrastructure. FaceTime
Enterprise Edition provides customers with comprehensive visibility &
control, unified threat management, information leak prevention, and compliance
for growing Greynet channels in the enterprise. FaceTime has built the
industry's most comprehensive ecosystem of partners to provide customers with
the best solutions available for securing and managing Greynets in the
enterprise. FaceTime solutions now integrate with products from more than (30)
leading vendors, giving customers unprecedented security, flexibility, and
management of IM, P2P and other real-time applications. FaceTime is committed
to adding value to our products and services through strategic partners with
other leading vendors. For more information on becoming a strategic partner of
FaceTime, visit http://www.facetime.com/partners/partners.aspx
FaceTime is exhibiting at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California at
the McEnery Convention Center in booth #2037.
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 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:
Joshua Barnes
A&R Edelman
650-762-2865
joshua.barnes@ar-edelman.com
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