FOSTER CITY, Calif. - September 28, 2004 -
FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that
secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer
(P2P) applications, today announced SC Magazine, the leading
publication devoted to the business and art of information and
computer security, selected FaceTime's RTG500™ IM and P2P security
appliance for the "Recommended Award" from among eight other
industry-leading solutions. SC Magazine hailed RTG500 for being
highly configurable to the needs of the largest enterprises while
touting its detailed reports on bandwidth use, application behavior
and security policy enforcement, and ease of installation. "Our
reviews process is very stringent," said Rene Millman, reviews
editor at SC Magazine. "Any product that scores high marks with us,
and gets a Recommended rating, really is worth of consideration by
prospective customers." The widespread, uncontrolled proliferation
of IM and P2P in the enterprise poses a number of challenges for
security and compliance officers, including those associated with
identity management, viruses, worms, buffer overflows, spyware and
adware, the unauthorized dissemination of sensitive corporate data,
fines that result from illegal filesharing, and drained network
bandwidth. A white paper recently published by Osterman Research
provides best practice guidelines for the management of IM and P2P,
which recommend a two-point solution to control unauthorized usage
as follows:
- Protect the corporate network at its perimeter by preventing
users from circumventing anti-virus, firewall and other defenses
through the use of consumergrade and other 'public' IM and P2P
systems.
- Manage internal use of IM systems so that corporate policies
and regulatory compliance requirements are followed and key
corporate resources - applications, storage, data and other
elements - are protected from unauthorized access.
"FaceTime is the only security provider we've seen employing the
two-pronged approach that is necessary to completely secure IM and
P2P in the enterprise," said Michael Osterman, president and
founder of Osterman Research. "By allowing enterprises to adopt a
comprehensive 'defense-in-depth' strategy that elevates
collaboration and productivity while protecting the network and
corporate data, FaceTime is doing much to aid in the evolution of
real-time communications in the workplace." FaceTime's RTG500 and
IMAuditor™ work together to provide IT organizations with the
layered approach that is essential to proper management and
security of all IM and P2P communications. This 'defense-in-depth'
approach employs IMAuditor for IM user policy management on the
internal network with RTG500 at the network perimeter to manage
application behavior through deep inspection of network traffic for
protocol analysis that distinguishes between authorized and
unauthorized use. Together, IMAuditor and RTG500 form a complete
solution that aligns all IM and P2P communications with the
organization's business objectives and government regulations
requirements. "It is a great honor to have RTG500 recognized by SC
Magazine, one of the leading authorities on IT security, as an
essential component to complete IM and P2P security in the
workplace," said FaceTime CTO and VP of Products Jonathan
Christensen. "As our customers and other messaging security experts
such as Osterman Research will attest, the FaceTime
'defense-in-depth' approach is the only way businesses can safely
benefit from the competitive advantages of IM." The Osterman
Research white paper, entitled "Managing IM and P2P Threats in the
Enterprise," can be downloaded at http://www.facetime.com/osterman. FaceTime will
give a presentation on the 'defense-in-depth' approach to securing
IM and P2P as part of a Ziff Davis eSeminar on "Securing IM in the
Enterprise." The eSeminar will take place September 29 at 11 a.m.
PST/2 p.m. EST. To register, please visit: http://www.eseminarslive.com/article2/0,2290,1647046,00.asp?partnerref=9/30a.
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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