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Press Release
FaceTime Enterprise Edition™ Wins SC Magazine Reader Trust Award for Best IM
Security
FOSTER CITY, CALIF - February 17, 2006 - FaceTime Communications, the
leading provider of solutions for securing IM, P2P and spyware Greynets, today
announced that FaceTime Enterprise Edition™ was named Best IM Security solution
in SC Magazine's Reader Trust Technology Awards. The prestigious award
recognizes the product's position in the eyes of both information security
professionals and SC Magazine's judges.
Winners were announced and honored on February 14, 2006 at an awards gala held
at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. A judging panel of carefully selected
chief security officers (CSOs) examined over 1,300 product and service
nominations in a variety of categories. More than 25,000 readers also
participated in the selection process, voting on the publication's website for
the products they trust for key IT security responsibilities. FaceTime
Enterprise Edition rose to the top of the IM Security category, and beat
companies such as Akonix, IMLogic, and WebSense as the best security solution
for instant messaging.
"This clear endorsement by customers, IT professionals and the end-user
community validates our commitment to providing best-of-breed security for
instant messaging," said Frank Cabri, vice-president of marketing at FaceTime.
"With Enterprise Edition, organizations can take advantage of the collaboration
benefits of IM while being assured that their network is protected from inbound
threats, and powerful controls are in place to prevent information leakage."
FaceTime Enterprise Edition is used by the world's largest organizations to
manage, secure and control IM, P2P, spyware and other greynet applications. It
provides user policy management, message hygiene, day zero worm protection,
comprehensive compliance, and network protection against user circumvention. It
can also be configured to detect and prevent spyware infections at the Internet
gateway - before it infects the desktop. Enterprise Edition combines FaceTime's
IMAuditor™ in the LAN with Real-Time Guardian™ at the gateway for a complete,
end-to-end security, management and compliance solution. It works with all
public and enterprise IM clients. For more information, visit
FaceTime.
About SC Magazine Awards 2006-US
With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing
companies globally, the SC Awards are the world's leading awards program for
the information security industry.
New this year, the SC Magazine Awards have three separate award programs for
the US, UK, and Asia Pacific regions. The awards are composed of the Reader
Trust Awards - voted on by SC readers in each region, and the excellence and
professional awards that are judged by a panel of the industry's top talents.
Winners were announced at the 2006 SC Awards Gala on February 14th, 2006 which
took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.
To view the full list of winners or to learn more about the SC Magazine Awards
2006-US please visit: www.scawards.com
FaceTime is exhibiting at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California at
the McEnery Convention Center in booth #2037.
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:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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