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FaceTime Announces Support for Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2005

FaceTime Expands Security and Compliance Management for Live Communications Server 2005 Instant Messaging Environments

FOSTER CITY, Calif. - October 26, 2004 - FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, today announced its support for Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the universal reach provided by Live Communication Server 2005's future connectivity with MSN, AIM, and Yahoo!. Available immediately, FaceTime's IMAuditor compliance solution and RTG500 security appliance will allow organizations to set policies on IM and P2P use, block rogue real-time communications, track and manage approved IM use, and scan all IM traffic for viruses and other malicious code.

"With Live Communications Server 2005's enterprise-to-enterprise direct federation, as well as connectivity to the three major public IM networks, we will launch a new era for collaborative workflow," said Marc Sanders, Senior Product Manager, Real-Time Collaboration, at Microsoft. "With FaceTime's support for Live Communications Server 2005, customers get the security and compliance management they need to embrace the full power of IM and presence in the enterprise."

Live Communications Server 2005 is a real-time communications platform for corporate multimodal communication, such as voice, video, IM, deep presence, application sharing, and collaboration. FaceTime's solutions are designed to complement and extend the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 environment, utilizing Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server.

FaceTime's solutions:

Offer the broadest protocol support available.
Are SESA (Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture) and Cisco AVVID certified.
Secure and enforce usage policies for all forms of P2P and IM, including client, mobile, and browser-based IM.
Are based on reliable code that has withstood rigorous testing by the world's largest banks and other large enterprises for more than five years.

FaceTime's solutions include the following features and capabilities:

Discovery, enabling a company to identify IM, P2P and VoIP usage as a first step towards securing, managing, and controlling their appropriate usage.
Migration and enforcement tools, enabling the migration of ad hoc IM usage to the IT standard and supported IM infrastructure, namely Live Communications Server 2005.
Integrated defense-in-depth with perimeter and LAN products, ensuring that user policy management and compliance are applied at the individual, group, and enterprise-wide levels in real time. FaceTime offers the industry's only integrated two-tier solution.
Blocking of unauthorized IM and P2P usage, controlling the increased "surface area" for security attacks and enforcing real-time communication security policies.
IM standardization, ensuring that all IM usage is through the Live Communications Server 2005 Access Proxy, limiting access to those networks that are authorized by IT.
Meeting corporate, HR, and regulatory compliance requirements through a rich set of content filtering, auditing, review, and workflow capabilities for regulated and non-regulated industries.
Virus scanning, enabling companies to scan files transferred over IM for malicious code and exploits.
SPIM blocking, using FaceTime's patent-pending "challenge-response" technology to block unsolicited bulk messages.
Archival and storage, expanding companies' ability to securely capture, audit, and archive all instant messages either as a stand-alone record within FaceTime's solutions or exported to leading e-mail archival and storage systems.
Non-repudiation and tamper-prevention, securing archived messages to prevent deletion or modification of stored messages.

"With the release of Live Communications Server 2005, organizations now have every reason to embrace Enterprise IM," said Dan Schrader, director of product marketing at FaceTime. "Live Communication Server 2005's interconnectivity with the public networks provides customers with the power of universal reach but essentially invites 350 million IM users onto their networks. FaceTime's two-pronged, defense-in-depth approach is the only solution that provides Live Communications Server 2005 customers with complete IM and P2P security and compliance management."

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.

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