FOSTER CITY, CA and TORONTO, ON - September 21,
2004 - FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of
solutions that secure, manage and extend instant messaging (IM) and
peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, and BorderWare Technologies, the
benchmark provider of messaging security solutions, today announced
the two companies are working in tandem to address the increasing
demand for integrated enterprise solutions that tackle a variety of
threats affecting the entire spectrum of business-critical
communications. As part of the alliance, FaceTime and BorderWare
have combined their specialized expertise and best-of-breed product
suites and will engage in joint sales and marketing activities to
help enterprises gain control of their Internet communications.
"Email, instant messaging and increasingly VoIP (Internet
telephony) are coming under mounting strain by the onslaught of
spam, spim and other disruptions," said Lawrence Orans, Principal
Analyst, Gartner. "Enterprises want to address all aspects of
messaging security in a comprehensive and consistent way to
minimize costs, while gaining greater control of their Internet
communications." Recent statistics indicate that email spam has
peaked to as much as 90% of all Internet messages, and mail-borne
viruses continue to resurface. In addition, the unmonitored use of
IM technologies can leave a company vulnerable to worms, viruses,
identity theft and "spim" (IM spam), which is estimated by Ferris
Research to hit the 4 billion mark in 2004. As Internet telephony
expands beyond the enterprise intranet, Denial-of-Service attacks,
session flooding, vbombs, eavesdropping, session hijacking, voice
spam, session spoofing and caller impersonation may come to
dominate the headlines. Complicating these threats is the ease in
which end users can attach various IM, P2P and VoIP technologies to
the network without IT's knowledge or control. "Customer inertia
played the biggest part in driving this relationship between
FaceTime and BorderWare, with our customers often inquiring about
email security and BorderWare's customers expressing interest in
properly deploying and securing IM," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "By working together
through our direct and reseller channels, we provide customers with
a very compelling value proposition that enables them to take back
control of their Internet communications." FaceTime's RTG500™,
recent recipient of the coveted SC Magazine "Recommended" Award, is
an IM and P2P security appliance that works with FaceTime's
IMAuditor™, embraced by over half of the world's largest 100
financial services organizations, to provide IT organizations with
the layered, 'defense-in-depth' approach that is essential to the
proper management, security and regulatory/corporate compliance of
all IM and P2P communications. BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall
is the world's only CC EAL4+ certified email gateway. MXtreme
assures users that their email systems are protected against spam,
viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze email
communications. MXtreme's failsafe clustering architecture for
high-availability ensures zero downtime, zero latency and zero
message loss. BorderWare also recently announced SIPassure SIP
Firewall, a hardened appliance that manages and protects the flow
of VoIP-specific SIP communications, enabling enterprises to fully
realize the business benefits of deploying VoIP solutions such as
reducing long distance costs, utilizing presence-based applications
(i.e. find me, follow me) and unified messaging. Together, these
product suites combine to resolve all of the network
vulnerabilities posed by current and emerging Internet
communications technologies, which provides enterprises with
maximum safety and flexibility in utilizing such technologies in
ways that best meet their business needs. "Security issues have
come to the forefront and rather than dealing with messaging
security through a disparate set of products and band-aid
technologies, FaceTime and BorderWare are working together to offer
enterprises all-encompassing best-of-breed solutions for email, IM
and VoIP," said John Alsop, CEO, BorderWare.
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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