BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - July 14, 2008) - As instant messaging becomes preferred over
e-mail for real-time collaboration in large organizations, security and
compliance concerns rise to top of mind for IT managers. In answer to these
concerns, FaceTime Communications today announced that its newly enhanced
version of
IMAuditor
provides a dynamic system for
information
leak prevention that detects and scans message communications as well
as file transfer content in real-time.
Since 2001, FaceTime has been the definitive choice for
instant
messaging management and security in the enterprise. Partnering with
both Microsoft (as a Gold Level Partner) and IBM, FaceTime provides
perimeter security and deep compliance for
unified
communications and enterprise IM deployments. With FaceTime,
organizations can block in-bound malware threats, prevent information
leakage and maintain corporate and regulatory compliance requirements while
realizing the productivity and cost saving benefits of real-time
communications.
The IMAuditor system scans and applies established policies to all the
popular file types transferred over unified communications platforms such
as Microsoft OCS and IBM 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.
In an
information leak
prevention survey conducted in June 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.
"This survey confirms that security and compliance issues such as
e-mail-based spam and malware are among those that the IT community feels
confident have been adequately solved," said Michael Osterman, principal of
Osterman Research. "However, compliance for unified communications and the
real-time Internet is an area that many realize they must address."
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.
"Organizations are deploying unified communications to help their employees
be more efficient and to reduce costs," said Frank Cabri, vice president of
marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications. "The last
thing IT wants to do is to create yet another open security hole for
intellectual property to be leaked. File attachments can contain sensitive
information and unless their content can be detected and evaluated, control
is lost at the gateway."
IMAuditor 9.5 helps organizations realize the benefits of unified
communications and enterprise instant messaging deployments by providing
guaranteed compliance to meet
regulatory and corporate requirements, including logging, archiving and
easy retrieval of messaging communications.
About IMAuditor 9.5
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured instant messaging proxy that secures
and manages all public and enterprise instant message 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 unintentional information
leakage from within the company.
The following new features are incorporated into the IMAuditor System with
version 9.5:
-- Information leak prevention -- protect intellectual property by
scanning contents of all the popular file types including Microsoft Office
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 support -- management, compliance and security for mobile
workers using BlackBerry devices within an IBM 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.
IMAuditor 9.5 is available now from FaceTime and authorized distributors
and partners worldwide. For pricing and additional information call
1-888-349-3223 or visit
www.facetime.com.
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 four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions
are used by more than 900 customers -- including nine of the ten largest
U.S. banks -- for security, management and compliance of real-time
communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all
leading public and enterprise IM network 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 views on the changing
nature of Internet communications, from the people behind FaceTime.
FaceTime, FaceTime Communications, IMAuditor, GEM, Unified Security
Gateway, FaceTime Security Labs, IMPact Index, SpywareGuide.com and the
FaceTime logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of FaceTime
Communications, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
Contact Information: FaceTime Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
A&R Edelman
650-762-2945