FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - August 29, 2006 -
FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions for
securing and managing greynets such as instant messaging (IM),
peer-to-peer (P2P), VoIP, and web conferencing, today announced new
capabilities for the safe and productive use of enterprise IM
across distributed organizations. IMAuditor 8.0 provides extended
support for the latest versions of Enterprise Instant Messaging
(EIM) and Public Instant Messaging (PIM) applications such as
Jabber XCP 5.1, IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 7.5, and Microsoft's Live
Communications Server 2005, AIM Triton, MSN 8.0 and Yahoo 8.0. This
update enables comprehensive management of mobile workers and
scalability of the security infrastructure across multi-site
deployments, and captures and archives file transfers. The new
capabilities allow organizations to prevent inbound threats,
minimize information leakage, and maintain corporate and regulatory
compliance, while embracing the benefits of real-time
communications. According to Osterman Research, two-thirds of
enterprises will adopt enterprise instant messaging by the middle
of 2007. EIM provides a unified approach to real-time
communications - providing the efficiencies and productivity
advantages that users require along with the manageability and
security demanded by IT. EIM offers advantages such as federation,
which is the unified use of public IM networks under one convenient
login, adding voice and web conferencing capabilities. "Instant
messaging is part of an evolving unified communications platform
that will include unified messaging, web, audio and video
conferencing, and voice over IP calls," said Chris Christiansen,
program vice president for IDC. "FaceTime is well-positioned to
address this trend with its own evolving comprehensive security and
compliance solution design to ensure the safe and productive use of
IP-based communications in the enterprise." While the functionality
and role of EIM is evolving, security and compliance management of
these applications is becoming paramount. EIM networks are at risk
from the same inbound threats from worms, viruses, root kits,
spyware and malware that have targeted public IM and email
applications, particularly in a federated environment with public
and other EIM networks. At the same time, organizations must
protect against business risks of information leakage and maintain
corporate and regulatory compliance across all communications
applications. IMAuditor 8.0 provides a solution for the security
and compliance challenges posed by EIM, while giving enterprises
the flexibility to implement their own policies and empower
employees with these real-time collaborative applications. "Large
enterprises are evaluating enterprise IM to gain a competitive edge
through the increased efficiency and productivity offered by IM and
real-time communications," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO
of FaceTime Communications. "Now, more than ever, securing IM must
extend to secure and control all of the greynets that deliver VoIP,
web conferencing and other real-time communications applications."
Key features in IMAuditor 8.0 include:
- Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 7.51, Microsoft LCS 2005,
Jabber XCP 5.1, MSN 8.0, Yahoo 8.0 and AIM Triton - Enables
usage, management and enforcement of policies for these new EIM and
PIM clients, providing FaceTime customers with the most
comprehensive IM network support across these various channels
- Location-aware policy enforcement - IP address and
subnet-based policies enable application of an additional level of
policy enforcement based on the geographical location (or IP
subnets) from which the employees are accessing the network, and
allow administrators to enforce policies on guests, contractors and
temporary workers
- Secure mobile workers using IMRelay - Enforce
corporate IM security and compliance policies for mobile workers
and unmanaged laptops without deploying an agent on the client, by
directing IM conversations back through the IMAuditor
- Advanced security for file transfer with generic AV engine
support - Protect from inbound threats propagating through
file transfers using existing anti-virus infrastructure from
McAfee, Trend Micro and Symantec and new support for freeware AV
applications such as Clam AV
- Archival of file transfers - Allows enterprises to
maintain total compliance with regulatory requirements by capturing
and archiving file transfer content and attachments in addition to
the text of the IM conversation
- Stealth mode operations - Prevents user attempts to
circumvent IM security infrastructure and allows administrators to
selectively determine whether they notify users that IM
conversations are monitored and archived
- Better visibility of federated PIM usage - Allows the
archival of conversations conducted over PIM networks when using
EIM clients
- Multi-site deployment for High Availability -
Integrates with industry-leading load balancers and high
availability solutions to meet the scalability and availability
requirements of global enterprise
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured IM proxy that secures and
manages all public and enterprise IM use over an organization's
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, viruses and worms, as well as from
information leakage from within the company. IMAuditor will be
available in 30 days from FaceTime and authorized distributors and
partners worldwide. For more information visit www.facetime.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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