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Press Release
Wick Hill Selected To Distribute FaceTime's Greynet Security And Management Solutions In UK
WOKING, SURREY - July 24, 2006 - Wick Hill has been appointed by
California-based FaceTime Communications to distribute its greynet security and
management products in the UK. FaceTime provides solutions for the management
and control of greynet applications such as instant messaging, webmail, P2P
file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice.
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, commented: "The massive recent growth
in greynet applications has created a strong need for a product which can deal
with the security and management issues they raise. FaceTime's unique
multi-function appliance deals effectively with multiple greynet threats and
presents a great opportunity for the channel to sell into medium to high end
enterprises, who increasingly need a product to help them address serious
greynet problems."
About Greynets
IM, P2P, Web conferencing 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.
While many of these applications deliver collaborative benefits to users, they
pose a unique challenge to network administrators by traversing the network
through a variety of ports and evasive techniques. If left unmanaged, greynet
applications can introduce productivity issues, compliance risks, and concerns
over information leakage.
FaceTime Solutions
FaceTime's multi-function greynet appliances provide a comprehensive strategy
for end-to-end security, compliance and managing greynets, delivering spyware
prevention, instant messaging security, P2P control, compliance and Microsoft
LCS standardisation.
Spyware is prevented at the gateway before it infects the network and puts
corporate assets at risk, while instant messaging security stops data leaks and
preserves networks by securing the use of public IM against exploitation by
hackers, spyware, worms and viruses.
Uunauthorised P2P applications are prevented from hijacking legitimate
protocols to serve as vectors for malware distribution; and compliance
regulations are met by logging, archiving and protecting IM conversations and
other shared content. The use of Microsoft LCS is enforced by blocking
unauthorized public IM and P2P connections.
Price and Availability
FaceTime solutions are priced from GBP 2000 SRP for SME solutions; POA for
enterprise solutions. Available now to resellers from Wick Hill.
About Wick Hill
Established in 1976, value added distributor Wick Hill specialises in secure
infrastructure solutions. The company's portfolio covers security, performance,
access, services and management. Wick Hill sources and delivers best-of-breed,
easy-to-use solutions through its channel partners, providing customer support,
implementation, training and technical services. Wick Hill Ltd is part of Wick
Hill Group, based in Woking, Surrey with sister offices in Hamburg. Users of
products sourced through Wick Hill include most of the Times Top 1000
companies. Web: www.wickhill.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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