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Press Release
FaceTime Bolsters Enterprise Edition to Provide Unmatched IM Security and
Compliance
Comprehensive Solution for Managing Inbound Threats, Information Leakage and
Regulatory Compliance
FOSTER CITY, CALIF - April 4, 2006 - FaceTime Communications, the
leading provider of solutions for securing IM, P2P and spyware greynets, today
announced the next version of FaceTime Enterprise Edition with IMAuditor 7.0, a
proven solution used by many of the world's largest firms to manage, secure and
control greynet applications. Among the enhancements in FaceTime Enterprise
Edition are broader support for IM including Skype 2.0, WebEx support for
logging and archival of chat sessions within a web meeting, and enhanced
reporting for multiple public and enterprise instant messaging solutions
including Microsoft Live Communications Server, IBM Lotus SameTime, Reuters,
Parlano, and Jabber.
"The adoption of instant messaging applications and their rapid convergence
with P2P, VoIP and Web conferencing technologies can expose organizations to
significant business risks," said Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Director for
Collaborative Computing. "As a market leader, FaceTime has combined
best-of-breed products, comprehensive threat research and a differentiated
vision that has benefited enterprises by allowing them to enable and secure
these collaborative applications."
"Allowing users uncontrolled access to public IM networks exposes our
organization to IM-borne worms and the potential for company confidential
information to be compromised," said Rex Voorheis, Senior Manager of Network
Infrastructure for Crowe Chizek and Company LLC. "FaceTime Enterprise Edition
provides the security and compliance for all our instant messaging
communications internally and with our clients."
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. With FaceTime
Enterprise Edition, organizations are able to prevent inbound worm and virus
threats, stop intentional or unintentional information leakage and maintain
compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements when using public IM,
enterprise IM and P2P applications.
Web conferencing application vendors are integrating instant messaging to
deliver a unified interface for communication and collaboration. Leading Web
conferencing provider WebEx has an optional integrated chat service within its
conferencing platform. FaceTime has partnered with WebEx to deliver logging and
archiving of chat sessions so that customers are able to maintain control and
compliance over WebEx conferencing.
"Enterprise organizations are increasingly interested in solutions that align
with corporate and regulatory compliance requirements," said David Knight, vice
president of product management, WebEx. "We're pleased to be working with
FaceTime to deliver a premier solution for Web collaboration that meets both
the users' need to share information and the IT staff's requirements to log and
archive that information."
"FaceTime Enterprise Edition demonstrates our commitment to furthering our
leadership in instant messaging security and compliance solutions," said
Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "With the
integrated support for Skype and WebEx, we allow our customers the ability to
embrace new communications tools that meet their business needs while giving
them the peace of mind that comes from securing, controlling and logging them."
FaceTime Enterprise Edition enables Defense-in-Depth by creating a framework
for authorized access to IM services outside the perimeter, coupled with a
mechanism for detecting and preventing rogue or unauthorized access. The result
is comprehensive protection without compromise on cost, performance or
operational considerations. By implementing FaceTime Enterprise Edition,
organizations are able to create an environment in which the use of greynet
applications can benefit the business without endangering it, enabling
legitimate use while preventing unwanted use.
The recent winner of SC Magazine's "Best IM Security" award for 2006, FaceTime
Enterprise Edition integrates new capabilities based on the FaceTime IMAuditor
7™ platform , a full-featured IM proxy to secure and manage all IM use, and
RTGuardian (RTG) to enforce enterprise IM standardization, stop rogue use of
unwanted IM and P2P applications, and prevent spyware at the Internet gateway.
New capabilities of FaceTime Enterprise Edition include:
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Administrator Dashboards
- Role-based dashboards in IMAuditor 7 provide a snapshot of key traffic and
configuration information to administrators and reviewers, allowing them to
monitor operations and easily drill down for further details.
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Enhanced Visibility and Reporting
- Enables organizations more detailed visibility with several new security
reports for SpIM, Day Zero URL blocking and Restricted Phrase filters. Allows
creation of customer reports in either table or chart formats, and also enables
scheduled delivery of reports in HTML and .PDF formats.
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New User Interface (UI)
- All Enterprise Edition components now share a consistent UI with special
emphasis on usability and ease of navigation. The user interface has been
designed to anticipate common user actions and provide logical groups of
related operations to help administrators accomplish their tasks more
effectively and in less time.
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WebEx Support
- Ensures compliance by logging and archiving integrated WebEx chat sessions
using existing messaging archiving solutions.
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Skype 2.0 and QQ Support
- Utilizes behavioral-based detections of session behavior and other attributes
to allow enterprises to control and enforce policy on the latest versions of
Skype and QQ communications.
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Anti-virus Scanning - Adds support for Computer Associates eTrust to the
list of supported third-party products for virus scanning of IM-based file
attachments.
Availability
FaceTime Enterprise Edition with
IMAuditor 7.0 is available immediately from FaceTime and authorized
distributors and partners worldwide. For more information visit
www.facetime.com
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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