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FaceTime Enterprise Edition with IMAuditor v7.0 enables organizations 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. It offers IM support, including Skype 2.0, WebEx support for logging and archival of chat sessions within web meeting, and reporting for multiple public and enterprise IM solutions.
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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 -- 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(TM) 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:
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- WebEx Support -- Ensures compliance by logging and archiving integrated WebEx chat sessions using existing messaging archiving solutions.
-- 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.
-- 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
Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of security solutions for the management and control of greynet applications such as adware/spyware, instant messaging, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice. FaceTime Security Labs delivers the industry's first IMPact Index, which assesses "point-in-time" risks posed by viruses, worms and other malware propagating through greynet applications. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 600 customers, among them eight of the ten largest U.S. financial institutions. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, Bloomberg, Jabber and Reuters.
FaceTime is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information visit www.facetime.com/ or call 888-349-FACE.
CONTACT: Emily Chamberlin of Edelman, +1-650-429-2734, or emily.chamberlin@edelman.com, for FaceTime
