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Clearswift Partners With FaceTime to Bolster Content Governance Portfolio With Instant Messaging Security

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 12:00 CDT

Continuing its drive to simplify content security, Clearswift today announced the launch of MIMEsweeper™ IM Enterprise Edition, powered by industry leader FaceTime Communications. The new appliance and software solution complements Clearswift's existing web and email content security products to provide customers with a complete Enterprise Content Governance portfolio to cover all user interactions with the internet.

MIMEsweeper IM Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive instant messaging and real-time internet communications security solution which provides granular policy and control, full threat prevention and helps organisations achieve regulatory compliance.

Users are adopting IM and real-time applications, either officially or unofficially, into normal business practice. Organisations therefore need to apply the same in-depth content policy controls used for email and web traffic in order to meet security, legal, compliance and productivity imperatives.

"The increasingly collaborative nature of web usage, seen in the emergence of the Web 2.0 phenomenon, has been accompanied by an increase in the use of collaborative communications technologies, such as instant messaging in a business environment," said Jon Lee, CEO at Clearswift. "Companies benefit greatly from IM but they need reassurance that these technologies can be secured. MIMEsweeper IM Enterprise Edition allows administrators peace of mind that their sensitive company information remains secure."

According to research from FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions for securing and managing IM, P2P and web-based greynets in the enterprise, eight out of ten users are using real-time applications at work, and four in ten have installed such applications without them being approved by their IT departments. Although the benefits of real-time applications to businesses are significant, according to research from FaceTime, so also are the dangers. Eight out of ten (81%) IT managers' businesses had suffered attacks related to such applications in the previous six months.

This announcement also marks the start of a new partnership agreement between Clearswift and FaceTime Communications. FaceTime will become Clearswift's preferred IM technology partner and Clearswift will recommend and sell the company's award-winning IM security software directly to its worldwide customers.

Clearswift's expertise in content security, together with FaceTime's in-depth understanding of real-time communications applications provide a powerful combination for organisations wanting to enable employee collaboration," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications. "These organisations can now realize the productivity benefits while ensuring they are securing their network against both incoming threats and controlling outbound information leakage."

MIMEsweeper IM Enterprise Edition provides the most powerful security, control and compliance solution for real-time internet communications available today.

Secures all real-time traffic -- supports public and enterprise IM applications, WebEx web conferencing, P2P networks such as Skype and professional community networks

Defends against all IM threats -- comprehensive protection against worms, viruses, SpIM and other inbound threats, plus content filtering to prevent policy breaches and Zero-Day protection.

Bullet-proof credentials -- backed by the industry's largest evasive internet application research team.

Defence-in-depth architecture -- a two-tier architecture combining MIMEsweeper for IM software and MIMEsweeper IM Appliance, powered by FaceTime. FaceTime's technology has been awarded a Best Buy in SC Magazine for the past three years and received the SC Magazine 2006 Reader Trust Award for Best IM Security.

Intelligent granular content filtering backed by archiving and logging of all IM conversations and file transfers, ensuring a comprehensive audit trail for compliance requirements.

Supported applications:

Enterprise Instant Messaging: Microsoft LCS, IBM Sametime, Antepo, Jabber, Parlano MindAlign

Professional Community Networks: Reuters, Communicator Inc., PivotSolutions

Web Conferencing: WebEx

Public Instant Messaging: MSN, AIM, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ and more

About the research

In July 2006, FaceTime commissioned NewDiligence, an independent market research company, to conduct its 2nd annual survey on the growth and impact of greynets. As in the prior year, the research was conducted among a large sample of corporate IT managers and end users across all size organizations in North America, UK and Europe.

Key areas of measurement

-- Impact of overall greynet usage, particularly with respect to viruses and adware or spyware

-- Issues in preventing/remediating negative impacts of greynet usage

-- Use and effectiveness of network and desktop security measures

-- Business productivity and economic impacts of greynets

Survey data collected in October 2006

-- IT managers: 778 respondents

-- End users: 385 respondents

IT and End Users respondents by company size

-- From 1 to 99 employees (23%)

-- From 100 to 999 employees (24%)

-- From 1000 to 4999 employees (19%)

-- 5000 or more employees (34%)

About FaceTime Communications

FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets like instant messaging, Skype, web conferencing and P2P file sharing. Ranked number one in market share among instant messaging management vendors for the third consecutive year, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 800 customers including nine of the ten largest U.S. banks. 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 supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM, Reuters, and Jabber.

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

About Clearswift

Clearswift simplifies content security.

Our products help organizations enforce best-practice email and web use, ensuring all inbound, outbound, and internal traffic complies with stated policy and external regulations.

Our content filtering solutions make it easy to deploy, manage and maintain data leakage protection for email and web traffic, enabling compliance with regulations such as GLBA and HIPAA and industry standards such as PCI. Our inbound protection capability stops up to 100% of spam, spyware and malware.

Integrated solutions for Exchange and Domino traffic ensures that common policies can be applied on all email and web traffic, into, out of and within your organization.

More than twenty years of experience across 17,000 organizations, including highly sensitive military network security, has helped us raise content security standards while simplifying security management.

www.clearswift.com

Source: Business Wire

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