Press Release
FaceTime Survey: IT Managers OK Social Networking, as Long as it's Secure and Compliant
More than half of respondents plan to add Web 2.0 security within the year
BELMONT, Calif - July 1, 2009 - FaceTime Communications - the leading
provider of solutions enabling the safe use of Web 2.0 and unified
communications in the enterprise - found in a survey that Social Networking is
widely accepted by IT respondents, and 51 percent plan to beef up security
within the next 12 months.
Compared with a related survey in fall 2008 ("The Collaborative Internet: Usage
Trends, IT Attitudes and End User Impact"), many more IT professionals are
reporting that social media is in use at their companies, up from 60 percent
six months ago to 85 percent now.
FaceTime surveyed more than 1,100 prospects, customers and other IT
professionals identified through Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo and LinkedIn between
May 21 and June 1.
"The widespread acceptance of social networking as a reality for the corporate
network is a relatively new phenomenon," said Nishant Jadhav, director of
Product Management for FaceTime Communications. "However, managers are already
recognizing the business value of social networking with 31 percent of
respondents seeing significant business value and only 21 percent seeing no
business value."
More than half of respondents would like to see specific support for Web2.0
integrated into their Web security platform and nearly 20 percent would deploy
dedicated solutions to control Web2.0.
"The reality that real-time communications and Web 2.0 applications are highly
evasive is sinking in." continued Nishant Jadhav, "These applications are
designed to get around Web filtering, firewalls and other traditional security
measures through port crawling, tunneling and onion routing."
Other findings:
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30 percent would not consider a Web security platform that did not have the
ability to secure and manage social networking and Web 2.0 applications
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32 percent said social networking is a critical business collaboration tool
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87 percent personally use social networks on the corporate network
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80 percent said information leakage is a primary concern with social networking
use
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15 percent said social networking is "blocked" on the corporate network
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51 percent estimate that employees use social networks at work more than an
hour per day
Download the survey report Social Networking in the Enterprise: Working, or Not
Working.
About FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway FaceTime's Unified Security
Gateway (USG) is a secure Web gateway appliance that integrates Web 2.0
application detection and control, gateway malware protection and Web filtering
with FaceTime's best-in-class IM hygiene and archiving. With this single point
of control, more than 2,100 Web and real-time applications and many thousands
of social networking applications can be tracked, monitored and controlled to
give organizations complete visibility into all Internet communications, and
simplify administration.
With USG, IT administrators can set time of day or usage policies across all
applications and view detailed reports to gain complete visibility into
employees use of the network - not only in terms of browsing but also specific
Web 2.0 usage. This complete visibility and control provides IT with a distinct
advantage in managing network resources in addition to securing against inbound
malware and putting controls in place to prevent outbound data leakage.
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 1,000 customers for security, management and compliance of real-time
communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all
leading public and enterprise IM network and unified communications 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:
Sarah Carter
FaceTime Communications
650-631-6452
scarter@facetime.com
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