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FaceTime Announces New Capabilities for the Safe and Productive Use of Enterprise IM Across Distributed Organizations

Empowers organizations to enable any user, on any network, from any location

FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - August 29, 2006 - FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions for securing and managing greynets such as instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P), VoIP, and web conferencing, today announced new capabilities for the safe and productive use of enterprise IM across distributed organizations.

IMAuditor 8.0 provides extended support for the latest versions of Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) and Public Instant Messaging (PIM) applications such as Jabber XCP 5.1, IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 7.5, and Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005, AIM Triton, MSN 8.0 and Yahoo 8.0. This update enables comprehensive management of mobile workers and scalability of the security infrastructure across multi-site deployments, and captures and archives file transfers. The new capabilities allow organizations to prevent inbound threats, minimize information leakage, and maintain corporate and regulatory compliance, while embracing the benefits of real-time communications.

According to Osterman Research, two-thirds of enterprises will adopt enterprise instant messaging by the middle of 2007. EIM provides a unified approach to real-time communications - providing the efficiencies and productivity advantages that users require along with the manageability and security demanded by IT. EIM offers advantages such as federation, which is the unified use of public IM networks under one convenient login, adding voice and web conferencing capabilities.

"Instant messaging is part of an evolving unified communications platform that will include unified messaging, web, audio and video conferencing, and voice over IP calls," said Chris Christiansen, program vice president for IDC. "FaceTime is well-positioned to address this trend with its own evolving comprehensive security and compliance solution design to ensure the safe and productive use of IP-based communications in the enterprise."

While the functionality and role of EIM is evolving, security and compliance management of these applications is becoming paramount. EIM networks are at risk from the same inbound threats from worms, viruses, root kits, spyware and malware that have targeted public IM and email applications, particularly in a federated environment with public and other EIM networks. At the same time, organizations must protect against business risks of information leakage and maintain corporate and regulatory compliance across all communications applications. IMAuditor 8.0 provides a solution for the security and compliance challenges posed by EIM, while giving enterprises the flexibility to implement their own policies and empower employees with these real-time collaborative applications.

"Large enterprises are evaluating enterprise IM to gain a competitive edge through the increased efficiency and productivity offered by IM and real-time communications," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "Now, more than ever, securing IM must extend to secure and control all of the greynets that deliver VoIP, web conferencing and other real-time communications applications."

Key features in IMAuditor 8.0 include:

Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 7.51, Microsoft LCS 2005, Jabber XCP 5.1, MSN 8.0, Yahoo 8.0 and AIM Triton - Enables usage, management and enforcement of policies for these new EIM and PIM clients, providing FaceTime customers with the most comprehensive IM network support across these various channels
Location-aware policy enforcement - IP address and subnet-based policies enable application of an additional level of policy enforcement based on the geographical location (or IP subnets) from which the employees are accessing the network, and allow administrators to enforce policies on guests, contractors and temporary workers
Secure mobile workers using IMRelay - Enforce corporate IM security and compliance policies for mobile workers and unmanaged laptops without deploying an agent on the client, by directing IM conversations back through the IMAuditor
Advanced security for file transfer with generic AV engine support - Protect from inbound threats propagating through file transfers using existing anti-virus infrastructure from McAfee, Trend Micro and Symantec and new support for freeware AV applications such as Clam AV
Archival of file transfers - Allows enterprises to maintain total compliance with regulatory requirements by capturing and archiving file transfer content and attachments in addition to the text of the IM conversation
Stealth mode operations - Prevents user attempts to circumvent IM security infrastructure and allows administrators to selectively determine whether they notify users that IM conversations are monitored and archived
Better visibility of federated PIM usage - Allows the archival of conversations conducted over PIM networks when using EIM clients
Multi-site deployment for High Availability - Integrates with industry-leading load balancers and high availability solutions to meet the scalability and availability requirements of global enterprise

FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured IM proxy that secures and manages all public and enterprise IM use over an organization's network. IMAuditor, which resides on the LAN, maintains an integrated trust relationship with FaceTime's perimeter product, Real-Time Guardian (RTGuardian). These two products form FaceTime Enterprise Edition to 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 information leakage from within the company.

IMAuditor will be available in 30 days from FaceTime and authorized distributors and partners worldwide. For more information 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 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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