Press Release
Take the "FaceTime Real-time Challenge" at Infosecurity Europe
and win dinner for two at one of the UK's top restaurants
LONDON, UK - 15 April 2008 - FaceTime Communications is highlighting the
lack of awareness surrounding the high level of use in the workplace of
unauthorised IM and other greynet applications, such as Social Networking, by
inviting visitors to take the "FaceTime Real-time Challenge" at Infosecurity
Europe and install RTDiscover, a network visibility tool that provides
comprehensive reporting over a two week period of Instant Messaging, P2P,
Malware and web usage.
Applications such as instant messaging and P2P are generally introduced into
organisations by the end user, who is often unaware of the risks of malware
propagation. Conversely, most organisations know about of the dangers these
applications pose, but are unaware of the rapid growth in use on their
networks. According to a recent survey by FaceTime, 59% of employees admit to
using public instant messaging alone, within the workplace.
One of the reasons that real-time communication usage on corporate networks
goes unnoticed is that most of them, even the legitimate IM applications, are
built to evade detection by traditional security technologies such as
firewalls. Ultimately, this can result in malware entering the network
surreptitiously as well as business information leaking out.
By taking up FaceTime on its challenge, IT chiefs with seven hundred and fifty
plus users that are confident that their network will come up clean are in with
a chance of winning a fabulous dinner for two at one of the UK's top
restaurants.
"Social networking, web 2.0 and real-time communication tools are
revolutionising the way companies do businesses, but leaving them unmonitored
or unprotected is as good as leaving the back door to your house open and a
meal ready on the table for the thief," says Nick Sears, VP EMEA, FaceTime
Communications. "Only by completing an audit can a realistic policy for usage
within the company be set and we're confident that within any organisation,
which has a substantial amount of IT users, that RTDiscover will pick-up enough
usage of IM and other greynet applications to surprise even the most cynical IT
Director."
RTDiscover is a free tool that detects all real-time communication activities
within the network and provides reports on Internet access by employees and
logging of URL access attempts. Operating at the network perimeter, RTDiscover
installs onto standard windows machines and requires no changes to the network
infrastructure.
For more information and a copy of RTDiscover
to take part in the FaceTime Real-time Challenge visit stand F205 Infosecurity
Europe, Olympia, 22-24 April 2008. For those unable to make it to the show a
request for RT Discover can be made here -
http://www.facetime.com/forms/rtdiscover_request.aspx.
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:
Sara Claridge
Marylebone Public Relations
sara@marylebone.co.uk
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