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FaceTime and BorderWare Deliver First Enterprise Solution for Total Internet Communications Security

Posted on: Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and TORONTO, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, and BorderWare Technologies, the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions, today announced the two companies are working in tandem to address the increasing demand for integrated enterprise solutions that tackle a variety of threats affecting the entire spectrum of business-critical communications. As part of the alliance, FaceTime and BorderWare have combined their specialized expertise and best-of-breed product suites and will engage in joint sales and marketing activities to help enterprises gain control of their Internet communications.

"Email, instant messaging and increasingly VoIP (Internet telephony) are coming under mounting strain by the onslaught of spam, spim and other disruptions," said Lawrence Orans, Principal Analyst, Gartner. "Enterprises want to address all aspects of messaging security in a comprehensive and consistent way to minimize costs, while gaining greater control of their Internet communications."

Recent statistics indicate that email spam has peaked to as much as 90% of all Internet messages, and mail-borne viruses continue to resurface. In addition, the unmonitored use of IM technologies can leave a company vulnerable to worms, viruses, identity theft and "spim" (IM spam), which is estimated by Ferris Research to hit the 4 billion mark in 2004. As Internet telephony expands beyond the enterprise intranet, Denial-of-Service attacks, session flooding, vbombs, eavesdropping, session hijacking, voice spam, session spoofing and caller impersonation may come to dominate the headlines. Complicating these threats is the ease in which end users can attach various IM, P2P and VoIP technologies to the network without IT's knowledge or control.

"Customer inertia played the biggest part in driving this relationship between FaceTime and BorderWare, with our customers often inquiring about email security and BorderWare's customers expressing interest in properly deploying and securing IM," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "By working together through our direct and reseller channels, we provide customers with a very compelling value proposition that enables them to take back control of their Internet communications."

FaceTime's RTG500(TM), recent recipient of the coveted SC Magazine "Recommended" Award, is an IM and P2P security appliance that works with FaceTime's IM Auditor(TM), embraced by over half of the world's largest 100 financial services organizations, to provide IT organizations with the layered, "defense-in-depth" approach that is essential to the proper management, security and regulatory/corporate compliance of all IM and P2P communications. BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall is the world's only CC EAL4+ certified email gateway. MXtreme assures users that their email systems are protected against spam, viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze email communications. MXtreme's failsafe clustering architecture for high-availability ensures zero downtime, zero latency and zero message loss. BorderWare also recently announced SIPassure SIP Firewall, a hardened appliance that manages and protects the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications, enabling enterprises to fully realize the business benefits of deploying VoIP solutions such as reducing long distance costs, utilizing presence-based applications (i.e. find me, follow me) and unified messaging. Together, these product suites combine to resolve all of the network vulnerabilities posed by current and emerging Internet communications technologies, which provides enterprises with maximum safety and flexibility in utilizing such technologies in ways that best meet their business needs.

"Security issues have come to the forefront and rather than dealing with messaging security through a disparate set of products and band-aid technologies, FaceTime and BorderWare are working together to offer enterprises all-encompassing best-of-breed solutions for email, IM and VoIP," said John Alsop, CEO, BorderWare.

About FaceTime Communications

Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of extensible real-time security and management solutions that address network and information security, regulatory and corporate compliance, and call center customer service. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 350 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.

About BorderWare

Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions for enterprises and government. The company's flagship MXtreme Mail Firewall is the market leading appliance for securing an organization's email infrastructure. Similarly, BorderWare's SIPassure SIP Firewall delivers the benefits of Internet telephony by managing and protecting the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications for enterprises and carriers. BorderWare has more than 6000 customers with systems deployed at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations worldwide. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including Cisco Systems, F5 Networks, Sun Microsystems, FaceTime Communications, RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, New York, and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com/ or call 1-877-814-7900.

(c) 2004 FaceTime Communications and BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. All company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contacts:

Chris Blake Shelly Sofer

MSR Communications for FaceTime BorderWare Technologies

661-255-3194 905-804-1855 x278 / cell: 416-918-3801

chris@msrcommunications.com ssofer@borderware.com

FaceTime Communications; BorderWare Technologies Inc.

CONTACT: Chris Blake of MSR Communications, +1-661-255-3194 orchris@msrcommunications.com, for FaceTime; or Shelly Sofer of BorderWareTechnologies, +1-905-804-1855, ext. 278, cell: +1-416-918-3801, orssofer@borderware.com

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

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