BELMONT, Calif - October 27, 2009 - FaceTime Communications
(www.facetime.com) the leading provider of solutions enabling the
safe use of Web 2.0 and Unified Communications in the enterprise,
today announced that the company has licensed a world-class Web 2.0
virus detection engine from IT security and data protection firm
Sophos. Sophos's anti-virus technology has been integrated with
FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) 3.0, the first secure Web
gateway to combine the content monitoring, management and securing
of Web 2.0 applications, such as social networks, instant messaging
and unified communications with URL filtering, malware and Web
anti-virus protection.
"Web 2.0 applications are making their way into enterprise
networks, and the proliferation of viruses and malware propagated
through the Internet and increasingly, popular social media sites
presents a huge security concern for IT managers," said Nishant
Jadhav, Director, Business Development. "By licensing the best Web
2.0 anti-virus solution on the market, we now add HTTP/HTTPS
antivirus support to our URL filtering, anti-malware, content
monitoring, scanning, and recording for Web traffic and
applications such as instant messaging, unified communications, and
social networks."
"For the first six months of this year, SophosLabs detected 23,500
new infected Web pages* - that's one every 3.6 seconds. This
statistic underscores the necessity of ensuring safe Web browsing,
which includes virus and other malware protection," said Michael
Rogers, Vice President of Global Alliances & OEM at Sophos."We
are pleased that FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway 3.0 customers
will now benefit from Sophos's proactive anti-virus detection
technology."
FaceTime's USG 3.0 is an enterprise appliance that gives granular
control of not just Websites and applications but also of the
content being posted to blogs, wikis, webmail and social networking
sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Such content can be
monitored, secured and recorded - reducing outbound data leakage
and enabling compliance with industry regulations and legal
discovery requirements.
By filtering all Web 2.0 traffic and stopping viruses at the USG
gateway, Sophos's proactive detection technology offers an extra
layer of protection for FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG)
3.0 customers. In addition to real-time scanning, virus updates are
automatically delivered via the same engine, ensuring that all
customers are protected against the latest threats.
Sophos's global network of threat analysis centers, SophosLabs,
analyzes over 40,000 new suspicious files everyday and consistently
creates and delivers threat protection updates around the clock.
Sophos uses unique technologies, such as Behavioral Genotype®
Protection, that expedite detection and block unknown malware
without waiting for specific detection to be made available.
*Sophos Security Threat Report, July 2009
Pricing and Availability
The latest release of the Unified Security Gateway featuring Sophos
antivirus engine is available immediately through FaceTime
authorized partners from $9,200. Please call - (888) 349-FACE
(3223) for pricing, or logon to www.facetime.com.
About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the
best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is
committed to providing security and data protection solutions that
are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the
industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers
award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and
network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs-a global
network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades
of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data
protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry
awards. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More
information is available at www.sophos.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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