FOSTER CITY and CUPERTINO, CALIF - August 14, 2006
- FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of
solutions for securing and managing greynets, and Proofpoint, Inc.,
the leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions, today
announced a new strategic partnership whereby the companies will
provide interoperable, easy-to-manage solutions for comprehensive
IM and email security and compliance in a single platform. Enabled
by FaceTime's IMAuditor™, the integration between FaceTime and
Proofpoint allows IM, P2P, email, Web-based email and FTP messaging
security policies to be easily created, managed and enforced
through a centralized, Web-based interface. In this integrated
solution, IMAuditor communicates IM conversations - including file
transfer content - to Proofpoint's messaging security solutions for
further processing and policy enforcement. Customers of
Proofpoint's messaging security solutions can now easily extend
Proofpoint's protection for email, HTTP and FTP channels to IM and
P2P networks, allowing consistent enforcement of messaging security
policies across all communication channels. "Working with FaceTime,
we can make it easier for our customers to ensure that all
communications from the company adhere to internal policies and
compliance regulations, regardless of protocol," said Andres Kohn,
vice president of product management for Proofpoint. "This
interoperable solution, combining FaceTime with Proofpoint, not
only provides enhanced compliance capabilities but also gives our
users a complete solution for IM and P2P security- offering
outstanding protection against both inbound and outbound threats
related to instant messaging and greynets." FaceTime's IMAuditor™
is a full-featured IM proxy that secures and manages all public and
enterprise IM use over the enterprise network. IMAuditor, which
resides on the LAN, maintains an integrated trust relationship with
FaceTime's perimeter product, Real-Time Guardian (RTGuardian).
These two products form FaceTime Enterprise Edition to deliver
complete end-to-end security, management and compliance for
real-time communications in the enterprise, ensuring that corporate
data is protected both from outside threats such as spyware, worms
and other malware, as well as from information leakage from within
the company. "Working with partners such as Proofpoint, we can
provide our customers with a comprehensive security and compliance
solution for real-time collaborative applications such as IM,
operating in concert with the system they have in place for email
policy enforcement," said Srinivas Gurrapu, vice president of
product management for FaceTime Communications. "It's a win-win for
customers that need to ensure both security and compliance of all
their electronic communications, across the board." Proofpoint's
messaging security solutions - the Proofpoint Protection Server®
software and Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ appliance -
help large enterprises to stop spam, protect against e-mail viruses
and prevent leaks of confidential information while ensuring that
outbound messages comply with regulations. Proofpoint's messaging
security solutions are powered by Proofpoint MLX™, a patent-pending
machine learning system for content classification and analysis.
Proofpoint MLX techniques allow Proofpoint solutions to accurately
identify incoming spam messages, analyze the contents of outbound
messages for regulatory compliance violations and the presence of
confidential information, and to identify malicious network-level
connections. About Proofpoint, Inc.
Proofpoint provides messaging security solutions for large
enterprises to stop spam, protect against email viruses, ensure
that outbound messages comply with both corporate policies and
external regulations and prevent leaks of confidential information
via email and other network protocols. The company's flagship
products, the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ and Proofpoint
Protection Server® provide future-proof messaging security using
Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system
developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint was
founded by technology visionary and former CTO of Netscape
Communications, Eric Hahn. The Cupertino, California-based company
is funded by investors including Benchmark Capital, Bridgescale
Partners, Inventures Group, JAFCO Ventures, Meritech Capital, Mohr,
Davidow Ventures, and RRE Ventures. For more information, please
visit http://www.proofpoint.com.
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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