LONDON, UK - 15 April 2008 - FaceTime
Communications is highlighting the lack of awareness surrounding
the high level of use in the workplace of unauthorised IM and other
greynet applications, such as Social Networking, by inviting
visitors to take the "FaceTime Real-time Challenge" at Infosecurity
Europe and install RTDiscover, a network visibility tool that
provides comprehensive reporting over a two week period of Instant
Messaging, P2P, Malware and web usage.
Applications such as instant messaging and P2P are generally
introduced into organisations by the end user, who is often unaware
of the risks of malware propagation. Conversely, most organisations
know about of the dangers these applications pose, but are unaware
of the rapid growth in use on their networks. According to a recent
survey by FaceTime, 59% of employees admit to using public instant
messaging alone, within the workplace.
One of the reasons that real-time communication usage on
corporate networks goes unnoticed is that most of them, even the
legitimate IM applications, are built to evade detection by
traditional security technologies such as firewalls. Ultimately,
this can result in malware entering the network surreptitiously as
well as business information leaking out.
By taking up FaceTime on its challenge, IT chiefs with seven
hundred and fifty plus users that are confident that their network
will come up clean are in with a chance of winning a fabulous
dinner for two at one of the UK's top restaurants.
"Social networking, web 2.0 and real-time communication tools
are revolutionising the way companies do businesses, but leaving
them unmonitored or unprotected is as good as leaving the back door
to your house open and a meal ready on the table for the thief,"
says Nick Sears, VP EMEA, FaceTime Communications. "Only by
completing an audit can a realistic policy for usage within the
company be set and we're confident that within any organisation,
which has a substantial amount of IT users, that RTDiscover will
pick-up enough usage of IM and other greynet applications to
surprise even the most cynical IT Director."
RTDiscover is a free tool that detects all real-time
communication activities within the network and provides reports on
Internet access by employees and logging of URL access attempts.
Operating at the network perimeter, RTDiscover installs onto
standard windows machines and requires no changes to the network
infrastructure.
For more information and a copy of RTDiscover
to take part in the FaceTime Real-time Challenge visit stand F205
Infosecurity Europe, Olympia, 22-24 April 2008. For those unable to
make it to the show a request for RTDiscover can be made here - http://www.facetime.com/forms/rtdiscover_request.aspx.
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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