Unified Security Gateway

Secure and Enable the New Internet

FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) is an integrated secure Web gateway that combines Web filtering, malware protection, and fine-grained control for Web 2.0 and Internet applications.

The Internet has changed. It's increasingly dominated by collaborative Web 2.0 applications and environments that continue to influence and change the way people and teams cooperate, interact and work. Each new tool brings with it productivity, cost savings and communications benefits - but also introduces unparalleled risks.

While traditional security tools, such as URL filtering, firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems, continue to play an invaluable role in perimeter defenses, they do not provide for, secure or manage these new, highly evasive applications. Designed specifically to communicate, these applications - from social networks, to instant messaging applications and web conferencing tools - bypass traditional corporate network security protection measures.

In today's Internet connected environment, simple URL filtering is no longer sufficient to provide for the challenges of Web 2.0. Organizations need a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway that includes URL filtering along with malicious-code detection and application controls for instant messaging (IM), Skype, P2P file sharing and other Web 2.0 applications to protect their network and their business.

Unified Security Gateway: The Secure Web Gateway for Web, Real-time and Unified Communications Traffic

Unified Security Gateway (USG) enables management, security and compliance of the New Internet with the ability to set custom policies across multiple communications modalities - from IM, peer to peer networks, social networking applications and Web traffic. USG integrates with LDAP and Active Directory servers to provide simplified group policy setting. Granular controls include quota setting by employee, time and bandwidth - across all real time communications modalities - including instant messaging and social networking sites. Customizable reporting capabilities provide for detailed analysis on employee Web browsing and application usage by time spent, data downloaded and instant messaging content transferred.

With no software to install and no network modifications required, the USG is simple to configure and manage. Automated updates to FaceTime's anti-malware and URL filtering databases ensure up-to-the-minute protection. And USG's easy to use interface provides administrators with straightforward policy management, statistics, system information and reports.

Key Features

Security

• Dynamically filter millions of websites and URLs using predefined and customizable categories
• Enforce corporate acceptable web policies through allow, block or “coach” access to categories or individual web sites
• Gain visibility and control more than 2000 web applications across 10 categories including social networks, IM, P2P, IPTV and Virtual Worlds.
• Real Time protection against malware, rootkits and botnets.
• Stop access to malware-infected websites
• Prevent web-based threats propagating through social networks
• Targeted agent-less remediation of malware infected endpoints (with additional purchase of Greynet Enterprise Manager (GEM))
• Secures real time content across all communications channels, preventing data leakage and malware infection.

Instant Messaging & Unified Communications

• Gain visibility and control over dozens of IM applications, including aggregators
• Apply security policy and management controls to both UC messaging and public IM
• Block day-zero worms with challenge response and message throttling
• Prevent data leakage with granular filtering and file transfer blocking
• Real time alert reporting on disallowed content transfers
• Block risky, bandwidth-consuming SpIM
• Scan file transfers over IM using existing antivirus infrastructure
• Location-aware policy enforcement using endpoint IP addresses
• Map public IM buddy names to user names in enterprise directory

Compliance

• Record Public IM chats conducted over UC clients in federated environments
• Tamper-proof logging and archival for compliance and e-discovery requirements
• Archive actual files transferred over IM for comprehensive review and audit process
• Leverage and integrate with existing message archiving solutions (.e.g EMC, Enterprise Vault, etc)for comprehensive enterprise messaging insight
• Create ethical boundaries by setting policies at user/group level for IM usage
• Apply IM disclaimer messages to educate users and meet legal, audit and regulatory requirements
• Configure rich compliance workflow to easily retrieve stored information.

Management

• Manage productivity through time and bandwidth quota setting and allocation controls by group or user - across web access, P2P usage, social networks and instant messaging.
• Granular control (with LDAP and AD support) at group and user levels for location-independent policy enforcement across all modalities
• Protects investment in UC platforms like Microsoft OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime, by preventing access to native public IM tools.
• Unified policy management and enforcement for all real-time Internet activities
• Simple installation and integration with existing network infrastructure with zero latency
• Customizable multi-format reporting by employee browsing, application usage, time spent, data downloading and IM content transferred
• Secure management console for centralized configuration, management, and reporting
• Supports use of external database for policies, logging and archival for scalability and availability

Download the FaceTime Unified Security Gateway data sheet.