London, UK - September 20 , 2005 - FaceTime
Communications has been awarded SC Magazine's "Best Buy" a year
after it achieved the "Recommended" award in a similar instant
messaging (IM) group test against seven other vendors. This
achievement reconfirms FaceTime's Enterprise Edition product suite,
consisting of IMauditor and RTGuardian, as the leading provider of
solutions that secure, manage, and extend IM applications. SC
Magazine hailed the FaceTime solution for being a "powerful and
highly configurable enterprise-level system with the features to
match."
During rigorous testing SC Magazine analyzed how well each of the
eight products provided secure access to private and public IM
systems. Features including content filtering, anti-virus,
anti-spam and auditing were compared. FaceTime beat seven other
vendors including Akonix, Bluecoat, Sybari and Websense to come out
on top of the independent review.
"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 a great honor to have be recognized two years in a row by
an independent authority on IT security such as SC Magazine," said
FaceTime CTO and VP of Products Jonathan Christensen. "As our
customers and other messaging security experts will attest, the
FaceTime 'defense-in-depth' approach is the only way businesses can
safely benefit from the competitive advantages of IM."
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.
IM, along with spyware and P2P applications are part of a category
of unsanctioned networked applications that FaceTime calls
'greynets.' Greynet applications are downloaded and installed on
end user systems, without express permission from, or awareness by
IT (and often without even the end user's awareness - as with
spyware) and then use evasive techniques to traverse the
network.
FaceTime's RTG500 and IMAuditor™ work together to provide
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.
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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