WOKING, SURREY - July 24, 2006 - Wick Hill has
been appointed by California-based FaceTime Communications to
distribute its greynet security and management products in the UK.
FaceTime provides solutions for the management and control of
greynet applications such as instant messaging, webmail, P2P file
sharing, web conferencing and instant voice. Ian Kilpatrick,
chairman Wick Hill Group, commented: "The massive recent growth in
greynet applications has created a strong need for a product which
can deal with the security and management issues they raise.
FaceTime's unique multi-function appliance deals effectively with
multiple greynet threats and presents a great opportunity for the
channel to sell into medium to high end enterprises, who
increasingly need a product to help them address serious greynet
problems." About Greynets
IM, P2P, Web conferencing 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.
FaceTime Solutions
FaceTime's multi-function greynet appliances provide a
comprehensive strategy for end-to-end security, compliance and
managing greynets, delivering spyware prevention, instant messaging
security, P2P control, compliance and Microsoft LCS
standardisation. Spyware is prevented at the gateway before it
infects the network and puts corporate assets at risk, while
instant messaging security stops data leaks and preserves networks
by securing the use of public IM against exploitation by hackers,
spyware, worms and viruses. Uunauthorised P2P applications are
prevented from hijacking legitimate protocols to serve as vectors
for malware distribution; and compliance regulations are met by
logging, archiving and protecting IM conversations and other shared
content. The use of Microsoft LCS is enforced by blocking
unauthorized public IM and P2P connections. Price and
Availability
FaceTime solutions are priced from GBP 2000 SRP for SME solutions;
POA for enterprise solutions. Available now to resellers from Wick
Hill. About Wick Hill
Established in 1976, value added distributor Wick Hill specialises
in secure infrastructure solutions. The company's portfolio covers
security, performance, access, services and management. Wick Hill
sources and delivers best-of-breed, easy-to-use solutions through
its channel partners, providing customer support, implementation,
training and technical services. Wick Hill Ltd is part of Wick Hill
Group, based in Woking, Surrey with sister offices in Hamburg.
Users of products sourced through Wick Hill include most of the
Times Top 1000 companies. Web: www.wickhill.com.
About Actiance
Actiance helps organizations manage, secure and ensure compliance
across unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0
applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks. Actiance's
award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and
284 FINRA regulated firms globally.
The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of
applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure
compliance and gain valuable insights across the communications and
collaboration channels. Actiance supports all leading social
networks, unified communications and collaboration providers and IM
platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!,
AOL, Skype, Cisco, Microsoft, Jive, and IBM.
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