LONDON, UK. - 19th June 2007 - Continuing its
drive to simplify content security, Clearswift today announced the
launch of MIMEsweeper™ IM Enterprise Edition, powered by industry
leader FaceTime Communications. The new appliance and software
solution complements Clearswift's existing web and email content
security products to provide customers with a complete Enterprise
Content Governance portfolio to cover all user interactions with
the internet.
MIMEsweeper IM Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive instant
messaging and real-time internet communications security solution
which provides granular policy and control, full threat prevention
and helps organisations achieve regulatory compliance.
Users are adopting IM and real-time applications, either
officially or unofficially, into normal business practice.
Organisations therefore need to apply the same in-depth content
policy controls used for email and web traffic in order to meet
security, legal, compliance and productivity imperatives.
"The increasingly collaborative nature of web usage, seen in the
emergence of the Web 2.0 phenomenon, has been accompanied by an
increase in the use of collaborative communications technologies
such as instant messaging in a business environment," said Jon Lee,
CEO at Clearswift. "Companies benefit greatly from IM but they need
reassurance that these technologies can be secured. MIMEsweeper IM
Enterprise Edition allows administrators peace of mind that their
sensitive company information remains secure."
According to research from FaceTime Communications, the leading
provider of solutions for securing and managing IM, P2P and
web-based greynets in the enterprise, eight out of ten users are
using real-time applications at work and four in ten have installed
such applications without them being approved by their IT
departments. Although the benefits of real-time applications to
businesses are significant, according to research from FaceTime, so
also are the dangers. Eight out of ten (81%) IT managers'
businesses had suffered attacks related to such applications in the
previous six months.
This announcement also marks the start of a new partnership
agreement between Clearswift and FaceTime Communications. FaceTime
will become Clearswift's preferred IM technology partner and
Clearswift will recommend and sell the company's award-winning IM
security software directly to its worldwide customers.
"Clearswift's expertise in content security, together with
FaceTime's in-depth understanding of real-time communications
applications provide a powerful combination for organisations
wanting to enable employee collaboration," said Frank Cabri, vice
president of marketing and product management for FaceTime
Communications. "These organisations can now realize the
productivity benefits while ensuring they are securing their
network against both incoming threats and controlling outbound
information leakage."
MIMEsweeper IM Enterprise Edition provides the most powerful
security, control and compliance solution for real-time internet
communications available today.
- Secures all real-time traffic - supports public and enterprise
IM applications, WebEx web conferencing, P2P networks such as Skype
and professional community networks
- Defends against all IM threats - comprehensive protection
against worms, viruses, SpIM and other inbound threats, plus
content filtering to prevent policy breaches and Zero-Day
protection.
- Bullet-proof credentials - backed by the industry's largest
evasive internet application research team.
- Defence-in-depth architecture - a two-tier architecture
combining MIMEsweeper for IM software and MIMEsweeper IM Appliance,
powered by FaceTime. FaceTime's technology has been awarded a Best
Buy in SC Magazine for the past three years and received the SC
Magazine 2006 Reader Trust Award for Best IM Security.
- Intelligent granular content filtering backed by archiving and
logging of all IM conversations and file transfers, ensuring a
comprehensive audit trail for compliance requirements.
Supported applications:
- Enterprise Instant Messaging: Microsoft LCS, IBM Sametime,
Antepo, Jabber, Parlano MindAlign
- Professional Community Networks: Reuters, Communicator Inc.,
PivotSolutions
- Web Conferencing: WebEx
- Public Instant Messaging: MSN, AIM, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ and
more
About the research
In July 2006, FaceTime commissioned NewDiligence, an independent
market research company, to conduct it's 2nd annual survey on the
growth and impact of greynets. As in the prior year, the research
was conducted among a large sample of corporate IT managers and end
users across all size organizations in North America, UK and
Europe.
Key areas of measurement
- Impact of overall greynet usage, particularly with respect to
viruses and adware or spyware
- Issues in preventing/remediating negative impacts of greynet
usage
- Use and effectiveness of network and desktop security
measures
- Business productivity and economic impacts of greynets
Survey data collected in October 2006
- IT managers: 778 respondents
- End users: 385 respondents
IT and End Users respondents by company size
- From 1 to 99 employees (23%)
- From 100 to 999 employees (24%)
- From 1000 to 4999 employees (19%)
- 5000 or more employees (34%)
About Clearswift
Clearswift simplifies content security.
Our products help organizations enforce best-practice email and
web use, ensuring all traffic complies with internal policy and
external regulations.
Our range of content filtering solutions makes it easy to
deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise email and web security
for both inbound and outbound traffic.
Clearswift is the only vendor to offer comprehensive,
policy-based content security in all three deployment methods: as
software, as an appliance and as a managed service.
All three platforms are designed to take the hassle out of
securing internet traffic, with a clear, intuitive management
interface; automatic, 'zero-touch' updates; powerful reporting and
common-sense policy management.
Twenty years of experience across 17,000 organizations has
helped us raise security standards while simplifying security
management at the same time.
We've helped many of the world's most successful organizations
use the internet with confidence and are committed to staying ahead
of the market and helping our customers defend against all emerging
threats.
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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