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FaceTime Provides Reuters Messaging Import for SEC, FSA Compliance
IMAuditor Eases Compliance Burden for Financial Services Organizations
| Source: FaceTime Communications
BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - August 25, 2009) - FaceTime Communications announced today the
availability to import Reuters Messaging communications alongside instant
messages (IM) from public, enterprise and other financial IM networks to
manage and archive all conversations into a single location. The new
capabilities added to
IMAuditor, FaceTime's security and compliance software, will allow
financial services organizations to meet the stringent
compliance requirements for the retention of IMs as set out by
regulatory bodies such as the SEC, NYSE and the Financial Services
Authority (UK).
Reuters Messaging is widely used by financial institutions to communicate
throughout the course of their business. With IMAuditor, FaceTime clients
utilizing Reuters Messaging, are now able to combine the logging, archiving
and easy retrieval of these messages, with that of public and enterprise
messaging and other real-time communications. In addition, IMAuditor also
supports the export of Reuters Messaging conversations to customers'
existing email-archiving platforms for a single point of compliance and
e-discovery.
"With the acceptance and growth of IM, Web 2.0 applications and social
networking sites in the workplace, real-time communication tools are rarely
used in isolation. This development meets the growing regulatory
requirements of the financial services sector and helps to ease the burden
of compliance," comments Brian Babin, director of product management for
FaceTime Communications.
This new capability is available within 30 days to all FaceTime IMAuditor
customers and supports all current versions of Reuters Messaging.
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor ensures security, management and compliance for unified
communications, financial and public messaging networks -- from presence
and instant messaging to conferencing and voice. IMAuditor protects
real-time communications channels against viruses and other malware through
integral support for existing anti-virus installations, effectively closing
the zero-day gap. Patent pending anti-SpIM (Spam over IM) keeps IM networks
free of bandwidth hogging spam, and intelligent, granular content filtering
and logging of all electronic conversations ensures an audit trail for
information leak prevention, compliance and e-Discovery.
IMAuditor is used
by Fortune 1000 companies and financial services firms to secure and
manage real-time communications and ensure that instant messaging and
unified communications platforms can be safely used without compromising
security, compliance, productivity or allowing information leakage.
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number
one by IDC for five consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions
are used by more than 1,000 customers for security, management and
compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic
partnerships with all leading public and enterprise IM network and unified
communications providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype,
IBM and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information
visit http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE. The FaceForward blog,
at http://blog.facetime.com, offers thoughts and opinions about the
changing nature of Internet communications.