BELMONT, Calif - May 12, 2009 - FaceTime Communications, the
leading provider of solutions enabling the safe use of Web 2.0 and
unified communications in the enterprise, today introduced key new
capabilities for its IMAuditor security and compliance software.
IMAuditor now monitors SMS messages sent by corporate BlackBerry
users and provides real-time visibility and logging of group chats
conducted via Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS).
FaceTime IMAuditor ensures security, management and compliance for
unified communications -- from presence and instant messaging to
conferencing and voice -- and has been continually developed to
meet new challenges since its debut in 2001.
Support for BlackBerry Messaging
The new IMAuditor version 9.7 integrates with BlackBerry
Enterprise Server to capture SMS and PIN messages (PIN allows users
to send messages between BlackBerry devices based on their personal
identification numbers). This enables managers to monitor messages
sent by corporate BlackBerry users, an increasingly important
requirement for companies in regulated industries such as financial
services, healthcare and energy. For example, regulations in the
financial services sector, such as the US's SEC and the UK's FSA as
well as other regional financial services authorities, demand that
all electronic records -- including communication sent via instant
messaging and SMS - be logged and archived.
Beyond the financial services sector, the advent of broad-based
regulations, such as PCI, Sarbox and e-Discovery requirements,
makes it increasingly important to monitor, control and archive
enterprise messaging. The growing popularity of BlackBerries
represents a new messaging channel that needs to be
addressed.
"As mobile devices - led by the BlackBerry platform - become more
widely deployed, a greater proportion of corporate data will be
sent from and to these devices", said Michael Osterman, President
of Osterman Research, Inc. "Organizations that do not adequately
manage and archive the content on these devices run the risk of
creating serious regulatory, legal and data management problems
that they could easily avoid."
"President Obama, a well-known BlackBerry user, announced his
running mate using SMS, clearly demonstrating that this form of
communication is both highly effective and an accepted professional
tool," said Kailash Ambwani, chief executive officer for FaceTime.
"Yet, many companies can't allow their employees to use any
communication tool that cannot be tracked. With IMAuditor 9.7, we
enable our customers to use SMS and PIN messages on their corporate
BlackBerries - safely increasing productivity."
IMAuditor 9.7 also provides real-time monitoring and compliance
capabilities for group chats within Microsoft's OCS. This
functionality was recently introduced in OCS Release R2 and allows
users to create topic-based chat rooms. IMAuditor gives visibility
into who joined and who left a particular chat room, and when.
Management can therefore determine exactly who was privy to certain
parts of the conversation. While group chat is a new feature in
OCS, it's been available as a stand-alone application for several
years and has developed a large user-base over time, hence the need
for a solution to monitor these electronic conversations. As a Gold
Level ISV Partner of Microsoft, FaceTime is the only vendor that
provides this capability.
IMAuditor is used by Fortune 1000 companies including nine of the
top 10 U.S. banks and the majority of global financial services
firms to secure and manage real-time communications. IMAuditor
ensures that instant messaging and unified communications platforms
can be safely used without compromising security, allowing
information leakage or impacting productivity. IMAuditor is also
used to meet regulatory and corporate requirements, including
e-Discovery, which demand logging, archiving and easy retrieval of
messaging communications.
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured proxy that secures and
manages all public and enterprise unified communications use over
an organization's network. The IMAuditor, which resides on the
Local Area Network, scans the system and applies established
policies to all the popular types of files transferred over unified
communications platforms. This includes Microsoft OCS and IBM Lotus
Sametime, as well as public networks such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger,
GoogleTalk Windows Live (MSN), and now BlackBerry messaging.
The software analyzes and detects sensitive or confidential
information in both messages and file attachments, prevents
transmission of the information, and warns users about established
company policy regarding the sharing of corporate intellectual
property.
IMAuditor 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 unintentional information
leakage from within the company.
IMAuditor 9.7 is available now from FaceTime and authorized
distributors, resellers 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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