FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - February 27, 2007 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions for securing and
managing IM, P2P and Web-based greynets, today announced new
capabilities to simplify search and retrieval of real-time
communications for e-Discovery, and regulatory and corporate
compliance regulations. With IMAuditor 8.5, companies can more
easily and cost-effectively adhere to compliance requirements
through multi-level auditing, role-based administration, and
enhanced controls for electronically stored information. By
partnering with major storage archiving as well as email compliance
vendors, the FaceTime solution offers a significant cost savings
through consolidation of logging, archiving and auditing using a
single platform.
New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that became effective on Dec.
1, 2006 require that organizations manage their data in such a way
that it can be produced in a timely and complete manner when
necessary during legal discovery proceedings. These new
requirements, combined with governmental regulations including
Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and various Securities
and Exchange Commission requirements, place an increased mandate
for organizations to archive electronically stored information for
easy production and retrieval.
"Our research shows that the majority of corporations are not
aware of the business impact of the new Federal Rules for Civil
Procedure," said Michael Osterman of Osterman Research. "Businesses
need to take stock of how they are archiving all electronic
information, including IM and Web-based chat, and put into place
polices for its secure storage and retrieval. Technical solutions
such as those offered by FaceTime can significantly lighten the
regulatory burden and prepare companies to face legal
action."
IMAuditor's new role-based administration capability provides
specific access privileges and tracks the electronically stored
information that each reviewer has accessed, which is crucial to
the integrity of the compliance review process. An operational
reviewer role can be defined to set global policies and perform
extensive search and retrieval functions. This affords the ability
to 'audit the auditor,' as well as insure that system
administrators, compliance officers and operational auditors have
access only to the information and policy setting controls relevant
to their role in the compliance process. It also ensures that their
access is tracked and logged. These features provide organizations
full control over the auditing and retrieval process, saving time
and ensuring efficient use of internal or paralegal
resources.
"Top of mind for in-house legal staff and IT management today are
the compliance and security dangers posed by employees using
unmanaged instant messaging," said Frank Cabri, vice president of
marketing for FaceTime Communications. "IMAuditor allows our
customers to enable their workers with instant messaging, while
managing compliance regulations and guarding against legal
challenges."
In addition, only FaceTime allows both IM conversations and their
associated file transfers to be scanned archived, tracked and
stored for retrieval whether conducted over enterprise IM clients
such as Microsoft LCS or IBM Lotus Sametime, or via federated
public IM clients such as AOL AIM Pro, MSN Messenger and Yahoo!
IMAuditor provides single step recording and guarantees
transactional integrity when archived to email/WORM storage and
records compliance systems including AXS-One, EMC Centera,
Symantec, HP, Zantaz, IBM/Filenet and Iron Mountain. Further,
FaceTime's service provider partners offer archiving and storage in
a software-as-a-service model for customers through WebEx, eVault,
Sector and others.
New features in IMAuditor 8.5
* Three-hundred and sixty degree audit controls: Ability to record
and audit the actions of auditors and reviewers to meet higher
level of compliance requirements
* Advanced role-based administration: Facilitates segregation of
roles and tasks based on the functional responsibilities of the
individual
* Enterprise-grade Jabber connector: Scalable connector for Jabber
that includes support for persistent chat rooms, real-time ethical
boundaries, advanced controls for chat transcript recording and
archival
* Notification controls for electronically stored information
retention and retrieval: Email alerts and notifications to ensure
records retention and facilitate ease of retrieval
* Automatic provisioning for AIM business client: Advanced
controls for AIM business client for end-to-end policy enforcement
and better user experience
* Enhanced chat reviewing: Compliance officers can determine when
a specific user entered a chat conversation and the specific text
of the previous conversation that user was able to read.
These new capabilities complement the current IMAuditor solution,
which provides enhanced security and compliance including
comprehensive malware protection against worms, viruses, spyware
and SpIM as well as tamper-proof, non-repudiated full capture,
recording, archival and auditing of all conversations and file
transfers conducted over public and enterprise instant
messaging.
About IMAuditor
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 is available now from FaceTime Communications and
authorized distributors and partners worldwide. For pricing and
additional information call 1-888-349-3223 or 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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