BELMONT, Calif - July 1, 2009 - FaceTime
Communications - the leading provider of solutions enabling the
safe use of Web 2.0 and unified communications in the enterprise -
found in a survey that Social Networking is widely accepted by IT
respondents, and 51 percent plan to beef up security within the
next 12 months.
Compared with a related survey in fall 2008 ("The
Collaborative Internet: Usage Trends, IT Attitudes and End User
Impact"), many more IT professionals are reporting that social
media is in use at their companies, up from 60 percent six months
ago to 85 percent now.
FaceTime surveyed more than 1,100 prospects, customers and other
IT professionals identified through Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo and
LinkedIn between May 21 and June 1.
"The widespread acceptance of social networking as a reality for
the corporate network is a relatively new phenomenon," said Nishant
Jadhav, director of Product Management for FaceTime Communications.
"However, managers are already recognizing the business value of social networking with 31
percent of respondents seeing significant business value and only
21 percent seeing no business value."
More than half of respondents would like to see specific support
for Web2.0 integrated into their Web
security platform and nearly 20 percent would deploy dedicated
solutions to control
Web2.0.
"The reality that real-time communications and Web 2.0
applications are highly evasive is sinking in." continued Nishant
Jadhav, "These applications are designed to get around Web
filtering, firewalls and other traditional security measures
through port crawling, tunneling and onion routing."
Other findings:
- 30 percent would not consider a Web security platform that did
not have the ability to secure and manage social networking and Web
2.0 applications
- 32 percent said social networking is a critical business
collaboration tool
- 87 percent personally use social networks on the corporate
network
- 80 percent said information leakage is a primary concern with
social networking use
- 15 percent said social networking is "blocked" on the corporate
network
- 51 percent estimate that employees use social networks at work
more than an hour per day
Download the survey report Social Networking in the Enterprise: Working, or
Not Working.
About FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway
FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a secure Web gateway
appliance that integrates Web 2.0 application detection and
control, gateway malware protection and Web filtering with
FaceTime's best-in-class IM hygiene and archiving. With this single
point of control, more than 2,100 Web and real-time applications
and many thousands of social networking applications can be
tracked, monitored and controlled to give organizations complete
visibility into all Internet communications, and simplify
administration.
With USG, IT administrators can set time of day or usage
policies across all applications and view detailed reports to gain
complete visibility into employees use of the network - not only in
terms of browsing but also specific Web 2.0 usage. This complete
visibility and control provides IT with a distinct advantage in
managing network resources in addition to securing against inbound
malware and putting controls in place to prevent outbound data
leakage.
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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