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FaceTime to Provide Compliance Solutions for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 12:00 CST

FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, FaceTime today announced the immediate availability of FaceTime Enterprise Edition for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and support for Microsoft Corp.'s Public IM Connectivity (PIC) with Live Communications Server 2005.

Because of the unique and powerful nature of real-time collaboration and communication networks a new generation of security and compliance infrastructure solutions are required to deploy and safely manage these applications. With new interoperation and federation capabilities between the public IM networks comes added security and compliance requirements. FaceTime Enterprise Edition for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server enhances the already robust security architecture of Live Communications Server 2005 in the face of threats caused by the hundreds of viruses and worms currently circulating via IM, as well as the increasing amount of SPIM (spam over IM) that is anticipated over the coming year. (According to a recent Pew Internet & American Life survey, 30 percent of IM users had received SPIM).

Additionally, customers using FaceTime Enterprise Edition for Live Communications Server are assured that they are using a solution that is compliant with all state and federal government, books and record and customer data security and privacy regulations. FaceTime provides the following IM security and compliance solutions for unique production scale features:

1. Message anti-tampering check sums

2. Advance compliance policies such as:

a. Real-time ethical boundaries ("Chinese Walls")

b. Real-time content filtering with advanced pattern matching,

blocking and scanning

3. Full binary message capture to stop encrypted messages

4. Guaranteed strict logging with order preservation and message

capture

5. Guaranteed delivery to the message database and archive system

6. Guaranteed non-circumvention

7. Blocking of unauthorized IM

FaceTime Enterprise Edition for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server allows businesses to enforce standardization by shutting down unauthorized IM and P2P networks, block file transfers or impose file size limits, scan files for viruses and worms, intercept SPIM through FaceTime's rich content filtering and patent-pending challenge-response mechanism and ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements.

"Microsoft is pleased to be working with FaceTime Communications to deliver the best collaboration experience to customers," said Taylor Collyer, senior director of product management, Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit at Microsoft. "Our solution will help information workers everywhere connect with colleagues, partners and customers in real time, leading to better decisions and better business results."

"We are very excited by Microsoft's updates to Live Communications Server 2005, including a Service Pack and Public IM Connectivity (PIC), as they create a new starting point for today's and tomorrow's real time collaborative enterprise," said FaceTime CTO and vice president of products Jonathan Christensen. "With FaceTime Enterprise Edition for Live Communications Server, businesses can safely leverage federation and all other collaborative features of Live Communications Server 2005."

About FaceTime Communications

Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of security and management solutions that address network and information security and regulatory and corporate compliance for IM, P2P and other real-time communications. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 500 customers, with over 50 percent of the largest global 100 financial institutions, including seven of the eight largest U.S. banks. Hundreds of customers worldwide, including Chicago Stock Exchange, Dominion Energy, NCR, Southern Company, Standard Bank London, Thomas Weisel Partners, USAS Technologies and Wachovia Securities among others rely on FaceTime solutions. FaceTime has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, Bloomberg, Jabber and Reuters.

FaceTime is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information visit http://www.facetime.com/ or call 888-349-FACE.

NOTE: FaceTime is a registered trademark of FaceTime Communications, Inc. The FaceTime logo, IMAuditor, IM Director, RTGuardian, RTG, RTMatrix, and RTMonitor are trademarks of FaceTime Communications Inc. All other trademarks are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Jon Lavietes of MSR Communications, +1-415-447-6115, or jon@msrcommunications.com, for FaceTime.

FaceTime Communications

CONTACT: Jon Lavietes of MSR Communications, +1-415-447-6115, orjon@msrcommunications.com, for FaceTime

Web site: http://www.facetime.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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