FOSTER CITY, CALIF - April 26, 2005 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure,
manage and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P)
applications, today announced IMAuditor 6.5 featuring full
integration with FaceTime's IMPact (IM and P2P Activity) Center
including, i) daily updates of the IMPact Index with e-mail alerts
to IT administrators if the Index rises above a configurable level,
ii) automatic updates of IMPact Alerts with full descriptions of
known threats and iii) automatic updates to IMAuditor's content
filtering lexicon to block worms and spIM (SPAM over the IM
network). FaceTime recently launched its IMPact initiative in order
to meet the expanding scope and over 400% rise of IM and P2P
threats. The IMPact team, based in Foster City, Calif. and
Bangalore, India, researches and aggregates new IM and P2P
protocols and threats and publishes IMPact Alerts, daily e-mails
describing new worms and viruses circulating over IM and P2P; the
online IMPact Center at www.facetime.com/impactcenter; and the
IMPact Index, an aggregated snapshot of the current threat level in
IM and P2P networks. Today's IMPact Index is 3. With IMAuditor 6.5,
administrators can elect to have the content and alerts generated
by FaceTime's IMPact team pushed directly to their IMAuditor
servers enabling automatic and immediate protection from emerging
threats. "By automatically integrating our IMPact research into
IMAuditor 6.5, FaceTime is taking the next step in its
comprehensive plan to thwart emerging IM and P2P threats," said
Jonathan Christensen, FaceTime Chief Technology Officer. "By
automating this functionality we provide a threat free IM
environment enabling our customers to safely and securely reap the
benefits of IM use in the workplace." "Enterprises are rapidly
embracing IM as a key communication tool and as such, so have the
hackers and fraudsters," said Peter Christy, Principal, Internet
Research Group. With FaceTime's industry leadership in IM
management systems and their IMPact Center - a centralized and
up-to-date repository of industry threats - FaceTime's IMAuditor is
uniquely positioned to provide customers with comprehensive
protection from increasingly dangerous threats." FaceTime IMAuditor
6.5 will be available this summer. Existing customers of IMAuditor
will receive 6.5 as part of their maintenance agreements. For more
information on FaceTime's IMPact Center visit
www.facetime.com/impactcenter.
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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