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FaceTime First to Offer Granular Control for MySpace
FaceTime Offers Broadest Controls for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Including IM, P2P, Web-Based Traffic and Social Networking
| Source: FaceTime Communications
BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - June 18, 2008) - FaceTime Communications today announced that
its Unified Security Gateway (USG) now secures and manages the nearly 2,000
MySpace
applications that have been developed by third parties and are
currently available for users to download to their MySpace profiles. This
granular control of MySpace is complementary to the USG's support for more
than 20,000 Facebook
widgets, as was announced at the RSA Conference in April 2008. USG also
supports granular control of other social networking sites including Bebo,
Friendster and LinkedIn.
Three of the top ten most visited Web sites globally are social
networking sites, including MySpace at number six, as ranked by Alexa.
The increasing use of social networking on company PCs raises numerous
concerns for IT managers, from productivity and bandwidth loss to risks of
inbound malware to information leakage. The availability of applications
and widgets to customize social networking profiles has added a new
dimension to IT concerns.
MySpace revealed the first approved applications from third party
developers in March 2008. To date, the top 20 most popular MySpace
applications have been downloaded by more than 18 million MySpace users,
according to the site.
The ability to control Web
2.0 and manage each of these applications individually with FaceTime's
USG gives IT the flexibility to allow some or all employees to access their
MySpace profiles, and to also control access to some or all of these
applications developed by third parties.
Over the past year, FaceTime Security Labs has uncovered myriad scams,
phishing schemes, profile hijacks and various other malicious activities on
MySpace. For example, FaceTime Director of Malware Research Christopher
Boyd uncovered a MySpace hijack scheme last fall, where MySpace Music pages were
hacked using a transparent overlay that, when clicked, redirected the
visitor to spyware installs and fake security tool installs.
A complete guide to the characteristics and risks of more than 25,000 Web
2.0, social networking and real-time applications and how they behave on
the network is available on FaceTime's Greynets Guide Web site at
www.greynetsguide.com.
"As a new generation enters the workforce, companies that have
traditionally locked down access to Web sites viewed as non-work related
are finding they need to rethink their policies," said Frank Cabri, vice
president of marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications.
"More companies are recognizing that the lines between personal and work
life are blurred. Many employees are using consumer-oriented tools to
communicate with colleagues, and others are simply convinced it is their
right and privilege to access their social networking profiles from their
work computers -- but most still don't understand the risk this behavior
poses to their employers."
FaceTime's annual survey, Greynets in the
Enterprise, tracks trends, attitudes and impact of the use of these
consumer-oriented communications tools inside large organizations. The 2007
survey revealed that 85 percent of employees use work PCs for personal
purposes. Further, over the past three years of the survey, roughly
one-third of end users have consistently reported that they feel they have
the right to download applications of their choice on their work computers.
About the Unified Security Gateway for Today's Real-time Internet
The FaceTime Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a secure Web gateway
appliance that enables enterprises to control the new Internet, including
Web and real-time communications. USG integrates management, security and
compliance of Web communications, social networking, consumer-driven
greynet applications such as public IM, Skype and P2P and enterprise-class
Unified Communications suites such as Microsoft's Office Communications
Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. From a single platform, organizations can
enable and enforce safe and productive use of these applications, protect
the network against inbound malware, mitigate information leakage risks and
insure that corporate, regulatory and e-discovery needs are met.
The USG integrates gateway malware protection and Web filtering with
FaceTime's best-in-class IM hygiene and archiving, in a purpose-built,
hardened appliance. With this single point of control, organizations can
gain complete visibility of all Internet communications and reduce total
cost of ownership using a simpler solution that is easily administered by
the IT staff.
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 views on the changing
nature of Internet communications, from the people behind FaceTime.
FaceTime, FaceTime Communications, IMAuditor, RTGuardian, GEM, Unified
Security Gateway, FaceTime Security Labs, IMPact Index, SpywareGuide.com
and the FaceTime logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of FaceTime
Communications, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.