LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL - January 19, 2009 -
FaceTime Communications, an advanced level ISV member of IBM
PartnerWorld and the leading provider of solutions to secure and
manage unified communications in the enterprise, is exhibiting this
week at Lotusphere at Pedestal 322. FaceTime enhances security and
compliance for IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0.
FaceTime's IMAuditor records conversations from Lotus Sametime
clients as well as chat from Lotus Sametime meeting rooms, scanning
and applying established policies to all the popular file types
transferred over Lotus Sametime, as well as public instant
messaging networks such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, GoogleTalk and
MSN. The system analyzes and detects sensitive or confidential
information in both messages and file attachments, can prevent
transmission of the information, and will warn the user about
established company policy regarding the sharing of corporate
intellectual property.
Organizations that choose to connect with partners or other
external parties via the Lotus Sametime gateway are susceptible to
increased risk from these third party networks. FaceTime provides
the ability to control access, block inbound malware over IM and
other channels, prevent information leakage and enforce Lotus
Sametime usage by blocking the use of native public instant
messaging tools, thus protecting an organization's investment in
Lotus Sametime.
FaceTime also provides detailed reporting on Lotus Sametime
usage, security violations, compliance violations and transcript
reviews. Specific controls include user and group level policy
configuration, including the ability to enable ethical boundaries.
FaceTime is the only security solution to perform anti-virus
scanning on file transfers over Lotus Sametime as well as archiving
the content and the actual the file transfer.
In an information leak prevention survey conducted in mid-2008
for FaceTime by Osterman Research, nearly 40 percent of IT staff at
mid- to large-sized organizations in North America said they
believed that unintentional leaks by employees are a bigger threat
to their data security than spyware or malicious software, and 57
percent believe their corporate data is not adequately protected
from leaks via IM and/or unified communications.
The survey also revealed that nearly 50 percent of IT managers
are very concerned about information leak prevention in their
current or planned unified communications implementations and 23
percent of those view it as a top priority. Conversely, only 16
percent of respondents said the issue of information leak
prevention is not on their radar, and less than 10 percent said
they have no plans for unified communications deployment.
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured instant messaging proxy that
secures and manages all public and enterprise instant messaging use
over an organization's network. IMAuditor, which resides on the
local area network, maintains an integrated trust relationship with
FaceTime's secure Web gateway appliance, the Unified Security
Gateway (USG). Working together IMAuditor and USG 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 intentional or deliberate information
leakage from within the company.
IMAuditor 9.5 provides comprehensive support for:
- Information leak prevention - protect intellectual property by
scanning contents of all the popular file types and other leading
software applications. This capability allows powerful data leakage
polices to be enforced based on restricted phrase matching,
detecting and blocking encrypted files and controlling the types of
files that can be sent internally or externally.
- BlackBerry management, compliance and security - policies are
extended to mobile workers using BlackBerry devices within an Lotus
Sametime environment
- Advanced text search - delivers fast Boolean and regular
expression searches across IM conversations to make information
retrieval simple and efficient during a discovery event, regardless
of database size.
- Usage trend reporting - provides detailed usage information
including unique logins, number of messages, number of unified
communications events as well as reports by time interval to
provide flexible reporting options for IT management
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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