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Press Release
FaceTime and BorderWare Deliver First Enterprise Solution for Total Internet
Communications Security
New Alliance Combines Best-of-Breed Security Solutions for Email, Instant
Messaging, Peer-to-Peer, Voice over IP and More
FOSTER CITY, CA and TORONTO, ON - September 21, 2004 - FaceTime Communications,
the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage and extend instant
messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, and BorderWare
Technologies, the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions, today
announced the two companies are working in tandem to address the increasing
demand for integrated enterprise solutions that tackle a variety of threats
affecting the entire spectrum of business-critical communications. As part of
the alliance, FaceTime and BorderWare have combined their specialized expertise
and best-of-breed product suites and will engage in joint sales and marketing
activities to help enterprises gain control of their Internet communications.
"Email, instant messaging and increasingly VoIP (Internet telephony) are coming
under mounting strain by the onslaught of spam, spim and other disruptions,"
said Lawrence Orans, Principal Analyst, Gartner. "Enterprises want to address
all aspects of messaging security in a comprehensive and consistent way to
minimize costs, while gaining greater control of their Internet
communications."
Recent statistics indicate that email spam has peaked to as much as 90% of all
Internet messages, and mail-borne viruses continue to resurface. In addition,
the unmonitored use of IM technologies can leave a company vulnerable to worms,
viruses, identity theft and "spim" (IM spam), which is estimated by Ferris
Research to hit the 4 billion mark in 2004. As Internet telephony expands
beyond the enterprise intranet, Denial-of-Service attacks, session flooding,
vbombs, eavesdropping, session hijacking, voice spam, session spoofing and
caller impersonation may come to dominate the headlines. Complicating these
threats is the ease in which end users can attach various IM, P2P and VoIP
technologies to the network without IT's knowledge or control.
"Customer inertia played the biggest part in driving this relationship between
FaceTime and BorderWare, with our customers often inquiring about email
security and BorderWare's customers expressing interest in properly deploying
and securing IM," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of FaceTime
Communications. "By working together through our direct and reseller channels,
we provide customers with a very compelling value proposition that enables them
to take back control of their Internet communications."
FaceTime's RTG500™, recent recipient of the coveted SC Magazine "Recommended"
Award, is an IM and P2P security appliance that works with FaceTime's
IMAuditor™, embraced by over half of the world's largest 100 financial services
organizations, to provide IT organizations with the layered, 'defense-in-depth'
approach that is essential to the proper management, security and
regulatory/corporate compliance of all IM and P2P communications. BorderWare's
MXtreme Mail Firewall is the world's only CC EAL4+ certified email gateway.
MXtreme assures users that their email systems are protected against spam,
viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze email communications.
MXtreme's failsafe clustering architecture for high-availability ensures zero
downtime, zero latency and zero message loss. BorderWare also recently
announced SIPassure SIP Firewall, a hardened appliance that manages and
protects the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications, enabling enterprises to
fully realize the business benefits of deploying VoIP solutions such as
reducing long distance costs, utilizing presence-based applications (i.e. find
me, follow me) and unified messaging. Together, these product suites combine to
resolve all of the network vulnerabilities posed by current and emerging
Internet communications technologies, which provides enterprises with maximum
safety and flexibility in utilizing such technologies in ways that best meet
their business needs.
"Security issues have come to the forefront and rather than dealing with
messaging security through a disparate set of products and band-aid
technologies, FaceTime and BorderWare are working together to offer enterprises
all-encompassing best-of-breed solutions for email, IM and VoIP," said John
Alsop, CEO, BorderWare.
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 10 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 opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
About BorderWare
Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions for enterprises and government. The company's flagship MXtreme Mail Firewall is the market leading appliance for securing an organization's email infrastructure. Similarly, BorderWare's SIPassure SIP Firewall delivers the benefits of Internet telephony by managing and protecting the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications for enterprises and carriers. BorderWare has more than 6000 customers with systems deployed at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations worldwide. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including Cisco Systems, F5 Networks, Sun Microsystems, FaceTime Communications, RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, New York, and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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