Press Release
FaceTime Unified Security Gateway Named Best Anti-Malware Gateway by Network Testing Labs
World Class Award for accuracy and unobtrusive performance
BELMONT, Calif. - October 7, 2008 - Network Testing Labs (Mobile, Ala.)
has awarded FaceTime Communications'
Unified Security Gateway (USG) top honors
in its recent live testing and review of the secure Web gateway appliance. The
review was based on six key criteria in Web security: identifying and thwarting
malware, performance, ease of use, reports, deployment and documentation.
To initiate the test, Network Testing Labs collected hundreds of malware
samples and recorded the USG's capability to identify and prevent inbound
malware traffic. The test also recorded how USG handled 'phone home' attempts,
when the spyware on client machines attempted to send data back to the source.
All types of malware were tested including keystroke loggers, browser
hijackers, bots, root kits, adware, spyware, dialers, data miners, and Trojans.
Awarding FaceTime its 'World Class Award' for gateway anti-malware, Network
Testing Labs noted the USG's "unerring accuracy and quick, unobtrusive
performance."
In all efficacy tests for the detection of malware, instant messaging
protocols, and P2P protocols, the USG delivered between 98 and 100 percent
accuracy. The report concluded that USG is a "superior gateway-architecture
security tool for thwarting malware and controlling access, via corporate
policy, to inappropriate Web sites and protocols. It's accurate, easy to use,
scalable and very cost effective."
The full report is available for download from FaceTime Communications at this
link: http://www.facetime.com/forms/usg_ntlrpt_request.aspx
FaceTime's USG is a secure Web gateway appliance that gives organizations
visibility and control over employee use of the new Internet. USG integrates
management, security and compliance of Web communications, consumer-driven
applications such as social networking, Web 2.0, instant messaging, Skype and
P2P, and enterprise-class collaborative suites such as Microsoft Office
Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. The appliance allows
organizations to enable safe and productive use of the Web and more than 700
Internet applications, by protecting the network against malware, mitigating
information leakage risks and ensuring that corporate, regulatory and
e-discovery needs are met.
Quickest Performing Secure Web Gateway
With fewer than 28 to 40 milliseconds latency for executable file detection and
fewer than ten milliseconds latency when detecting URLs, the report notes that
FaceTime's USG is one of the "quickest performing Secure Web Gateway products
on the market. This results in an overall throughput of 575 Megabits per second
on the midrange platform. Instead of sitting inline and potentially delaying
traffic, the USG is deployed in passby mode where it enforces policies set by
the IT administrator."
The report also points out that "client responsiveness was virtually unaffected
by the presence of the gateway."
Effectiveness and Flexibility
The testing report states that the "Unified Security Gateway stopped malware
cold," also noting that the appliance provided an "absolute, fine-as-we-wished
control over the social networking and other non-business Web sites and
protocols we deemed inappropriate for our corporate network."
USG detected 100 percent of malware over IM and P2P protocols and "thwarted all
spyware regardless of channel of propagation (IM, P2P, HTTP). It went a step
further to block phone home attempts, thus stopping the transmission of
hijacked data and online advertising server requests."
About Network Testing Labs
Network Testing Labs performs independent technology research and product
evaluations. Its network laboratory connects myriads of types of computers and
virtually every kind of network device in an ever-changing variety of ways. Its
authors are networking experts who write clearly and plainly about complex
technologies and products.
Network Testing Labs' experts have written hardware and software product
reviews, state-of-the-art analyses, feature articles, in-depth technology
workshops, cover stories, buyer's guides and in-depth technology outlooks. Our
experts have spoken on a number of topics at Comdex, PC Expo and other venues.
In addition, they've created industry standard network benchmark software,
database benchmark software and network diagnostic utilities.
FaceTime commissioned the study from Network Testing Labs to bring an outside
perspective on both performance and efficacy. This third-party validated test
data provides valuable input for FaceTime's customers who are planning
deployments and network architecture based on USG. Third-party validation of
the malware efficacy offers confidence in the face of fast-changing threats.
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.
PR Contact:
Joshua Barnes
A&R Edelman
650-762-2865
joshua.barnes@ar-edelman.com
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