FOSTER CITY, Calif. - October 26, 2004 -
FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that
secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer
(P2P) applications, today announced its support for Microsoft®
Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the universal reach
provided by Live Communication Server 2005's future connectivity
with MSN, AIM, and Yahoo!. Available immediately, FaceTime's
IMAuditor compliance solution and RTG500 security appliance will
allow organizations to set policies on IM and P2P use, block rogue
real-time communications, track and manage approved IM use, and
scan all IM traffic for viruses and other malicious code. "With
Live Communications Server 2005's enterprise-to-enterprise direct
federation, as well as connectivity to the three major public IM
networks, we will launch a new era for collaborative workflow,"
said Marc Sanders, Senior Product Manager, Real-Time Collaboration,
at Microsoft. "With FaceTime's support for Live Communications
Server 2005, customers get the security and compliance management
they need to embrace the full power of IM and presence in the
enterprise." Live Communications Server 2005 is a real-time
communications platform for corporate multimodal communication,
such as voice, video, IM, deep presence, application sharing, and
collaboration. FaceTime's solutions are designed to complement and
extend the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005
environment, utilizing Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL
Server. FaceTime's solutions:
- Offer the broadest protocol support available.
- Are SESA (Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture) and Cisco
AVVID certified.
- Secure and enforce usage policies for all forms of P2P and IM,
including client, mobile, and browser-based IM.
- Are based on reliable code that has withstood rigorous testing
by the world's largest banks and other large enterprises for more
than five years.
FaceTime's solutions include the following features and
capabilities:
- Discovery, enabling a company to identify IM, P2P and VoIP
usage as a first step towards securing, managing, and controlling
their appropriate usage.
- Migration and enforcement tools, enabling the migration of ad
hoc IM usage to the IT standard and supported IM infrastructure,
namely Live Communications Server 2005.
- Integrated defense-in-depth with perimeter and LAN products,
ensuring that user policy management and compliance are applied at
the individual, group, and enterprise-wide levels in real time.
FaceTime offers the industry's only integrated two-tier
solution.
- Blocking of unauthorized IM and P2P usage, controlling the
increased "surface area" for security attacks and enforcing
real-time communication security policies.
- IM standardization, ensuring that all IM usage is through the
Live Communications Server 2005 Access Proxy, limiting access to
those networks that are authorized by IT.
- Meeting corporate, HR, and regulatory compliance requirements
through a rich set of content filtering, auditing, review, and
workflow capabilities for regulated and non-regulated
industries.
- Virus scanning, enabling companies to scan files transferred
over IM for malicious code and exploits.
- SPIM blocking, using FaceTime's patent-pending
"challenge-response" technology to block unsolicited bulk
messages.
- Archival and storage, expanding companies' ability to securely
capture, audit, and archive all instant messages either as a
stand-alone record within FaceTime's solutions or exported to
leading e-mail archival and storage systems.
- Non-repudiation and tamper-prevention, securing archived
messages to prevent deletion or modification of stored
messages.
"With the release of Live Communications Server 2005,
organizations now have every reason to embrace Enterprise IM," said
Dan Schrader, director of product marketing at FaceTime. "Live
Communication Server 2005's interconnectivity with the public
networks provides customers with the power of universal reach but
essentially invites 350 million IM users onto their networks.
FaceTime's two-pronged, defense-in-depth approach is the only
solution that provides Live Communications Server 2005 customers
with complete IM and P2P security and compliance management."
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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