Press Release
FaceTime Provides Perimeter Security and Deep Compliance for IBM Lotus Sametime Deployments
Support for Sametime 8.0 includes information leak prevention, mobile Blackberry security and compliance, advanced text search and retrieval
LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL - January 19, 2009 - FaceTime Communications, an
advanced level ISV member of IBM PartnerWorld and the leading provider of
solutions to secure and manage unified communications in the enterprise, is
exhibiting this week at Lotusphere at Pedestal 322. FaceTime enhances security
and compliance for IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0.
FaceTime's IMAuditor records conversations from Lotus Sametime clients as well
as chat from Lotus Sametime meeting rooms, scanning and applying established
policies to all the popular file types transferred over Lotus Sametime, as well
as public instant messaging networks such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, GoogleTalk
and MSN. The system analyzes and detects sensitive or confidential information
in both messages and file attachments, can prevent transmission of the
information, and will warn the user about established company policy regarding
the sharing of corporate intellectual property.
Organizations that choose to connect with partners or other external parties
via the Lotus Sametime gateway are susceptible to increased risk from these
third party networks. FaceTime provides the ability to control access, block
inbound malware over IM and other channels, prevent information leakage and
enforce Lotus Sametime usage by blocking the use of native public instant
messaging tools, thus protecting an organization's investment in Lotus
Sametime.
FaceTime also provides detailed reporting on Lotus Sametime usage, security
violations, compliance violations and transcript reviews. Specific controls
include user and group level policy configuration, including the ability to
enable ethical boundaries. FaceTime is the only security solution to perform
anti-virus scanning on file transfers over Lotus Sametime as well as archiving
the content and the actual the file transfer.
In an information leak prevention survey conducted in mid-2008 for FaceTime by
Osterman Research, nearly 40 percent of IT staff at mid- to large-sized
organizations in North America said they believed that unintentional leaks by
employees are a bigger threat to their data security than spyware or malicious
software, and 57 percent believe their corporate data is not adequately
protected from leaks via IM and/or unified communications.
The survey also revealed that nearly 50 percent of IT managers are very
concerned about information leak prevention in their current or planned unified
communications implementations and 23 percent of those view it as a top
priority. Conversely, only 16 percent of respondents said the issue of
information leak prevention is not on their radar, and less than 10 percent
said they have no plans for unified communications deployment.
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured instant messaging proxy
that secures and manages all public and enterprise instant messaging use over
an organization's network. IMAuditor, which resides on the local area network,
maintains an integrated trust relationship with FaceTime's secure Web gateway
appliance, the Unified Security Gateway (USG). Working together IMAuditor and
USG 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 intentional or deliberate information leakage from within the company.
IMAuditor 9.5 provides comprehensive support for:
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Information leak prevention - protect intellectual property by scanning
contents of all the popular file types and other leading software applications.
This capability allows powerful data leakage polices to be enforced based on
restricted phrase matching, detecting and blocking encrypted files and
controlling the types of files that can be sent internally or externally.
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BlackBerry management, compliance and security - policies are extended to
mobile workers using BlackBerry devices within an Lotus Sametime environment
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Advanced text search - delivers fast Boolean and regular expression searches
across IM conversations to make information retrieval simple and efficient
during a discovery event, regardless of database size.
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Usage trend reporting - provides detailed usage information including unique
logins, number of messages, number of unified communications events as well as
reports by time interval to provide flexible reporting options for IT
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 five consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 1000 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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