INTEROP, LAS VEGAS (Booth #1081) - May 3, 2006
- FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of
solutions for securing and managing greynets such as instant
messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P), and spyware, today announced
the immediate availability of Greynet Enterprise Manager (GEM). GEM
enables organizations to easily set and manage security policies,
and obtain aggregated visibility of IM, P2P and spyware traffic
across distributed enterprise environments. GEM complements
FaceTime's gateway anti-spyware offering, RTGuardian, to offer the
only gateway-to-endpoint anti-spyware solution with targeted
remediation - a patent pending feature that performs policy-based
remediation on endpoints infected with spyware, adware and other
greynet applications without deploying client software. "With
responsibility for over 70,000 distributed faculty and students
accessing the Internet for instant messaging services, music and
file downloads, and new services such as Skype, it is critical that
we have sophisticated controls and reporting," said Jim Daniels,
computer operations, West Virginia Department of Education. "The
FaceTime solution with GEM allows us to offer new Internet
applications for classroom and learning purposes, while keeping the
users safe and productive." "Enterprise customers continue to look
for anti-spyware solutions that prevent infections in the first
place rather than simply react after an infection takes place,"
said Matt Anderson, Research Director at The Radicati Group.
"FaceTime's spyware prevention solution is unique in that it
prevents infections at the gateway, but also allows IT
administrators to perform targeted remediation on any endpoint PC
without involving or interfering with the user." 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 to
existing security infrastructure. While many of these applications
deliver collaborative benefits to users, they pose a unique
challenge to network administrators by traversing the network
through a variety of ports and evasive techniques. If left
unmanaged, greynet applications can introduce productivity issues,
compliance risks, and concerns over information leakage.
Managing Greynet Threats at the Internet
Gateway
RTGuardian is the industry's most advanced perimeter security
solution for preventing spyware, enforcing standardization of
Enterprise IM vendors such as Microsoft and IBM, securing
unauthorized IM, and controlling Skype and P2P usage. GEM consists
of two key components: GEM Management Console -
provides an aggregated, centralized view of all reports generated
by multiple RTGuardian appliances distributed across the enterprise
giving administrators network-wide visibility of all IM, P2P and
spyware traffic associated with individual regions, groups and
users. The Management Console also enables centralized device
management of RTGuardian to provide health, status and firmware
version reports to help guarantee network availability and business
continuity. Additional features include:
- Provides detailed reports of actions taken on spyware
infections down to the machine and user level, not just IP
addresses
- Discovers and cross-references IM and P2P installations with
policies governing their usage to determine enforcement levels
- Intelligently interprets traffic and activity on the network,
providing additional insight into network performance and
administration
GEM Endpoint Remediation - Based on detections from
RTGuardian appliances, GEM initiates targeted scans and remediation
of any managed PC or group of PCs on the network. Network
administrators can customize the triggers and scans to best fit
their network and policies. Patent-pending, clientless architecture
ensures efficient cleaning and inoculation of endpoints to prevent
future infections without the need to deploy additional desktop
applications or impact end user productivity. Additional features
include:
- Automated threat updates from FaceTime Security Labs' Greynets
Research Database provides rapid response and countermeasures to
the latest threats
- Global and custom anti-spyware policies to determine
remediation and inoculation across groups of endpoints
- Utilizes Microsoft-sanctioned technologies to disable endpoint
infections
"The unprecedented growth of instant messaging, Skype and P2P
usage in the enterprise has been echoed by an unprecedented growth
in threats entering the enterprise network via IM and P2P," said
Srini Gurrapu, vice president of product management at FaceTime
Communications. "Research from FaceTime Security Labs has
demonstrated that securing greynets requires working beyond
standalone gateway or endpoint solutions, and businesses are
demanding a solution that minimizes disruption, compliance risks
and information leakage." Pricing and
Availability
GEM 3.0 and related pricing information is available immediately
through authorized FaceTime distributors and partners
worldwide.
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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