FaceTime Teams With PortAuthority Technologies and Tablus to Provide Unmatched Information Leak Prevention16 February 2006
FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions for securing IM, P2P and spyware Greynets, today announced new partnerships with Tablus and PortAuthority Technologies to add increased security against content leakage to its flagship FaceTime Enterprise Edition(TM) solution.
The two companies join FaceTime's Greynet Security Partners (GSP) Program as charter members with an information and content leakage focus, and will provide joint FaceTime customers with essential fingerprinting technologies needed to identify and prevent confidential information from inappropriately leaving the organization.
"Instant Messaging, Peer-to-Peer networks, Skype, Spyware and other Greynets represent the largest, uncontrolled avenues for the loss of sensitive corporate information," said Srini Gurrapu, Senior Director of Security Products for FaceTime Communications. "Without the visibility, management and control of Greynets, organizations are at risk of information and intellectual property being easily leaked over these networks."
Sensitive information such as personal credit information as specified by the PCI payment card industry standard, personal health information (PHI), corporate intellectual property, customer data, and login credentials can easily expose the organization to business risks and non-compliance. The new relationships with PortAuthority Technologies and Tablus will provide customers with integrated solutions for complete visibility and prevention of information leaks over all popular Internet channels including Web, IM, P2P, and email. FaceTime will actively collaborate with the program participants for a deeper level integration of their respective technologies utilizing standards-based methods such the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) to bring integrated solutions to market.
"Enterprises and government agencies are using PortAuthority to prevent leaks of private data and confidential information across multiple communication channels," said Raj Dhingra, vice president of Product Management and Marketing at PortAuthority Technologies. "By aligning with FaceTime Communications, our joint customers can now reduce their data security risk by accurately stopping sensitive information leaks across instant messaging channels. With PortAuthority 4.0 and FaceTime Enterprise Edition, companies can confidently use enterprise-wide instant messaging while keeping the bad stuff out and the good stuff in."
"Tablus participation in FaceTime's Greynet Security Partners program is a direct response to customer requests," said Vince Barboni, Tablus' vice president of Business Development. "When considering the direct correlation between the growing risk of sensitive information loss -- for data at rest, in use and in motion -- and the increased use of Greynet communication channels, the relationship between Tablus and FaceTime became a natural fit."
IM, P2P and spyware applications are part of a category of networked applications that FaceTime calls 'Greynets.' Greynets are network-enabled applications that are installed on an end user's system without permission from IT and are highly evasive to existing security infrastructure. FaceTime Enterprise Edition provides customers with comprehensive visibility & control, unified threat management, information leak prevention, and compliance for growing Greynet channels in the enterprise. FaceTime has built the industry's most comprehensive ecosystem of partners to provide customers with the best solutions available for securing and managing Greynets in the enterprise. FaceTime solutions now integrate with products from more than (30) leading vendors, giving customers unprecedented security, flexibility, and management of IM, P2P and other real-time applications. FaceTime is committed to adding value to our products and services through strategic partners with other leading vendors. For more information on becoming a strategic partner of FaceTime, visit http://www.facetime.com/partners/partners.aspx
FaceTime is exhibiting at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center in booth #2037.
About FaceTime Communications
Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of security solutions for the management and control of Greynet applications such as adware/spyware, instant messaging, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice. FaceTime Security Labs delivers the industry's first IMPact Index, which assesses "point-in-time" risks posed by viruses, worms and other malware propagating through Greynet applications. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 500 customers, among them seven of the eight largest U.S. financial institutions. FaceTime also has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, Bloomberg, Jabber and Reuters. For more information, visit http://www.facetime.com.
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