FOSTER CITY, CALIF - September 14, 2005 -
FaceTime Communications today announced that FaceTime Enterprise
Edition™ has been recognized as SC Magazine's "Best Buy" in a group
test of instant messaging (IM) security products. FaceTime
Enterprise Edition is used by the world's largest firms to manage,
secure and control IM, P2P, spyware and other greynet applications.
Without effective management and control mechanisms, enterprises
are vulnerable to a wide variety of threats that can lead to
leakage of confidential information, corporate and regulatory
compliance violations, and even identity theft.
During rigorous testing, SC Magazine analyzed how well
eight products provided security for private and public IM systems.
Features including content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam and
auditing were compared. FaceTime beat seven other vendors including
Akonix, Sybari and Websense to come out on top of the independent
review. SC Magazine hailed the FaceTime solution for being
a "powerful and highly configurable enterprise-level system with
the features to match."
"Our reviews process is very stringent," said Jon Tullett, global
technology editor at SC Magazine. "Any product that scores
high marks with us, and gets a 'Best Buy' rating, really is worthy
of consideration by prospective customers."
"It is great to be recognized so highly by an independent IT
security authority such as SC Magazine," said Jonathan
Christensen, CTO and VP of Products, FaceTime Communications.
"FaceTime Enterprise Edition delivers on the promise of managing
and securing IM applications so that company data and internal
resources can be protected."
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 at the
network level.
FaceTime Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive solution for the
end-to-end security, management and compliance of real-time
communications consisting of managing user policy, hygiene,
archiving for compliance, blocking unauthorized usage, and
protecting the network against sophisticated workarounds. The
solution can also be configured to prevent spyware infection and
offer targeted remediation of spyware-infected desktops. FaceTime
Enterprise Edition works with all public and enterprise IM clients
to offer:
- Complete logging, auditing and archiving of IM
- Content scanning & keyword matching to prevent disclosure
of proprietary information
- Network protection with anti-virus and anti-spim controls
- Authentication of user identities and ability to block
high-risk features
- Prevention of unauthorized IM and P2P connections
For more information on FaceTime Enterprise Edition, visit
http://www.facetime.com/productservices/enterpriseedition.aspx
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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