FaceTime Communications Announces Enhanced Security and Compliance for Microsoft Office Communications Server Release 2

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - February 3, 2009) - FaceTime Communications, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Program, today announced that its line of Unified Security Gateway (USG) and IMAuditor products support the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2) with enhanced compliance and management capabilities.

FaceTime's IMAuditor and Unified Security Gateway products are integrated with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to provide protection from in-bound malware, out-bound information leakage and to insure corporate and regulatory compliance, and are extensible to other communications modalities including Voice over IP and Web conferencing in addition to instant messaging. New to FaceTime's support of Office Communications Server 2007 R2, is the ability to create ethical boundaries for audio conferencing, full security and compliance for Group Chat, support for Access Edge Proxy and associated logging and reporting enhancements.

FaceTime's highly scalable architecture for unified communications, developed with support from Microsoft, insures that even in the event of a server failure, policies are enforced and communications continue to be archived for compliance and audit purposes. This architecture protects organizations across heterogeneous environment of public IM, Web 2.0 and unified communications applications. Through FaceTime's continued support of both Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Office Communications Server 2007 R2, enterprise organizations can be assured of enhanced security and management and consistent policy enforcement across multiple unified communications modalities.

"Unified communications presents new challenges in terms of security, policy management and compliance, because the nature of collaboration increases the ways that information can travel within and outside the organization," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications. "Working closely with Microsoft, FaceTime provides a single platform for enforcing security and compliance policies consistently across instant messaging, conferencing and voice communications on the Microsoft Office Communications Server platform."

"The combination of Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 and FaceTime's USG and IMAuditor provides a powerful new way for people to collaborate and offers customers a rich and integrated communications experience," said Eric Swift, senior director of the Microsoft Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Corp. "FaceTime is adding significant value to enterprise communications and enabling businesses to better connect people, information and business processes."

About FaceTime Communications

FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one in worldwide instant messaging management revenues 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 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.

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