BELMONT, CALIF. - March 26, 2008 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure Web
and
unified communications (UC) in the enterprise, today announced
a new offer for customers looking to renew their Web
filtering subscriptions currently held with SurfControl,
Websense
and other competing providers. Renewing instead with FaceTime and
upgrading to the Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance affords
customers a higher value solution by providing Web filtering
combined with complete Web security, Instant
messaging management, P2P control, UC, and gateway anti-malware
in a single platform.
"We're hearing from SurfControl customers that they are being
asked to upgrade to a Websense product, often at an increased
price," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product
management for FaceTime. "We're providing SurfControl, Websense and
other Web filtering customers a higher value alterative that
extends their Web filtering budget to also secure and manage Web
2.0, social networks, instant messaging, Skype and other real-time
applications."
Analyst experts indicate that a Secure Web Gateway must filter
unwanted software and malware from user-initiated Web and Internet
traffic and enforce corporate and regulatory policy compliance. To
achieve this goal, secure Web gateways must, at a minimum, include
URL
filtering, malicious-code detection and filtering, and
application controls for popular Web-based applications such as
instant messaging (IM) and Skype.
This program extends a company's Web or URL filtering budget to
include this much-needed security and management of real-time
communications that are proliferating throughout enterprise
networks. In addition, FaceTime's solution provides deep compliance
protection to meet regulatory and corporate requirements, including
logging, archiving and easy retrieval of the content of instant
messages and their attachments over both public IM networks and
Enterprise IM and Unified Communications platforms, as well as Web
conferencing text conversations. More information about receiving a
quote for the upgrade is at http://www.facetime.com/forms/surfquote_request.aspx.
According to the 2007 survey Greynets in the Enterprise: Third
Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impact, conducted by
NewDiligence Research and commissioned by FaceTime, 87 percent of
IT managers believe their network firewalls are controlling and
securing the instant messaging traffic traversing their networks,
and 44 percent believe that desktop firewalls will do the job. For
a copy of the full report see http://www.facetime.com/solutions/greynets.aspx.
"The truth is, real-time communications protocols that are at
the root of the new Internet are notorious for circumventing legacy
Internet firewall technology, and simple URL filtering isn't
enough," said Cabri. "These protocols behave differently than
standard HTTP traffic, requiring more specific security and
management controls to enable their productive use while insuring
that the network is protected against inbound threats as well as
outbound information leakage."
About FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway
The FaceTime Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a secure Web
gateway appliance that enables enterprises to control real-time
communications. USG integrates management, security and compliance
of Web communications, consumer-driven greynet applications such as
public IM, Skype and P2P, and enterprise-class Unified
Communications suites such as Microsoft's Office Communications
Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. From a single platform,
organizations can enable and enforce safe and productive use of
these applications and protect the network against inbound malware,
mitigate information leakage risks, and insure corporate,
regulatory and e-discovery needs are met.
The USG integrates gateway malware protection and Web filtering
with FaceTime's best-in-class IM hygiene and archiving, in a
purpose-built, hardened appliance. With this single point of
control, organizations can gain complete visibility of all Internet
communications and reduce total cost of ownership using a simpler
solution that is easily administered by the IT staff.
The USG provides:
- Single point of control - for all web and real-time
communications lowers operational costs and simplifies
administration
- Better value - extend existing budget to cover both URL
filtering and emerging applications such as IM, P2P and Skype
- Security and performance - validated by respected industry
publications and test labs, only FaceTime provides a platform that
combines the highest efficacy with fastest performance.
- Compliance - log, archive and retrieve IM, file transfers and
other activity to meet regulatory and e-Discovery requirements
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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