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FaceTime Enhances Logging and Archiving Capabilities of IMAuditor to Ensure Compliance

(March 07, 2008)-- FaceTime Communications, provider of solutions that control greynets and manage unified communications (UC) in the enterprise, today announced availability of an enhanced version of IMAuditor. It enables enterprises to benefit from their IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Office Communications Server deployments with a highly available, fault-tolerant and enhanced security and compliance infrastructure that includes support for new modalities like VoIP, video and Web conferencing.

FaceTime has seen growing concern among large organizations over the past several weeks, examining their ability to log, archive and retrieve instant messages.

The recent concern is fueled in part by news reports related to $7.1 billion in losses caused by a rogue trader at Société Générale, a large French bank. Earlier this month, instant messages reportedly exposed a new twist in the scandal surrounding the record losses. Other cases also have brought e-discovery to the news forefront in recent months, including a patent infringement trial involving Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp that resulted in fines to Qualcomm in excess of $9 million due to its slow response to e-discovery requests.

IMAuditor 9.1 helps organizations realize the benefits of UC and enterprise instant messaging deployments by providing guaranteed compliance to meet regulatory and corporate requirements, including logging, archiving and easy retrieval of Web conferencing data. The deep compliance protection also covers the content of instant messages and their attachments over public networks. For more information or to request a product evaluation, visit http://www.facetime.com/productservices/imauditor.aspx

According to the October 2007 survey, "Greynets in the Enterprise: Third Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impacts," commissioned by FaceTime and conducted by market research firm NewDiligence, 56 percent of organizations currently have plans to roll out unified communications solutions. Further, at locations where enterprise instant messaging is deployed, nearly three-fourths of IT managers report that public instant messaging is also in use by employees.

"Unified communications suites are becoming integral to the way employees work today," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications. "But IT managers are finding that their UC rollouts don't significantly reduce employee use of consumer-oriented Web 2.0 applications and public instant message networks. Security and compliance controls must extend across all UC modalities in this heterogeneous environment, both enterprise-sanctioned and consumer-oriented."

In addition to specific compliance policies that can be set to log and archive instant messages and Web conferencing conversations and attachments for individual users, granular controls in the new IMA 9.1 can be set to block or allow audio and video transmissions on a per-user basis, across all UC modalities.

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