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FaceTime Enterprise Edition™

End-to-End Solution for Security & Management of IM, P2P & Other Greynets

FaceTime Enterprise Edition is the leading solution used by the world’s largest firms to secure and manage real-time communications and ensure that the use of instant messaging and other tools complies with corporate policy and government regulations.

Real-time Communications in the Enterprise

Instant messaging (IM), Web conferencing and other real-time communication and collaboration tools have become requirements for strategic and competitive advantage in today’s real-time enterprises. The productivity benefits reaped from the use of these tools have dramatically expanded the use of IM, peer to peer (P2P) file sharing and Voice over IP (VoIP) for many organizations. According to IDC, more than 28 million business users today use IM to send nearly 1 billion messages each day at work, making it the fastest-growing communication system ever.

IM and Web conferencing programs, as well as their less-well-intentioned cousins P2P and spyware, are part of a category of applications that FaceTime terms ‘greynets.’ Greynets are network-enabled applications that are installed on an end user’s system without the permission or knowledge of the IT department (or frequently the user) and are largely invisible to the existing security infrastructure.

An Emerging Security and Management Challenge

Because greynet applications tend to operate below the security radar, their widespread and uncontrolled use brings with it new risks for malware infection, loss of intellectual property, falling out of compliance with government regulations and more. While some greynets, such as IM and Web conferencing, have significant business value, others can pose serious security risks. However all need to be controlled and managed according to policy set by the enterprise. Managing the use of greynet applications in business is a major compliance and security concern for information security, human resources, and legal department personnel. Its prevalence and convenience as a business tool must be balanced by the requirement of certain regulations, such as SEC 17a-3 and 17a-4, NASD 3010/3110, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, and others, to enforce policies and retain reviewable customer records and transaction data.

FaceTime Enterprise Edition

FaceTime Enterprise Edition provides the most mature security, control and compliance management solution for real-time communication applications available today, supporting public and enterprise IM applications, WebEx web conferencing, P2P networks such as Skype, and professional community networks such as Reuters. It’s backed by FaceTime Security Labs, the industry’s largest greynet research team, providing total threat protection coming over these new channels of communication.

FaceTime Enterprise Edition is the only provider of TrueCompliance™, offering full compliance with federal and industry regulations through multi-layered policy-based access control, monitoring, authentication and management of real-time communications. Through its defense-in-depth architecture, it offers comprehensive protection against worms, viruses, SpIM and other inbound threats, and targets existing spyware installations with patent-pending Targeted Remediation to clean and inoculate infected endpoints. Support is provided for virus scanning using existing anti-virus tools, and patent-pending anti-SpIM keeps IM networks free of bandwidth-hogging spam. Intelligent, granular content filtering and archiving/logging of all electronic conversations ensures an audit trail for information leak prevention.

Used by eleven of the top fifteen US banks and seventeen of twenty-four top FIMA banks, FaceTime Enterprise Edition incorporates the award-winning IMAuditor™ and Real-Time Guardian™ applications. FaceTime Enterprise Edition was awarded Best Buy in SC Magazine September 2005 issue and in February 2006 received the SC Magazine 2006 Reader Trust Award for Best IM Security.

Key Benefits:

Single solution to secure, manage and control usage policy for major public and enterprise instant messaging, web conferencing and professional community networks
Secure and enable the safe use of real-time communication applications
Prevent spyware with targeted remediation and inoculation of infected endpoints
Avoid loss in productivity from inbound threats and content leakage from outbound threats from these new channels of communication
Meet corporate policies and government regulatory requirements
Minimize IT administration costs with flexible deployment and enhanced management features