How Have You Protected Your Organization From Web 2.0 Security Threats?

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Securing today’s Internet requires more than simple Web filtering. Web 2.0 applications, real-time communications and the world of social networking present additional security challenges – spyware, rootkits, information leakage, and non-compliance with regulatory and e-discovery requirements.

The Internet has changed. Employee initiated traffic is no longer just e-mail and Web browsing. The new Internet is dominated by Web 2.0 apps, instant messaging, social networking, P2P file sharing, VoIP and other collaborative applications.

Employees – especially the new generation of workers – often introduce these consumer-oriented applications onto the corporate network. Some are used to socialize, others to gain efficiencies in the workplace, but they all circumvent existing security infrastructure making it difficult for IT to gain visibility and control.

Securing today’s Internet requires more than simple Web filtering. Web 2.0 applications, realtime communications and the world of social networking present additional security challenges – spyware, rootkits, information leakage, and non-compliance with regulatory and e-discovery requirements. At the same time, organizations are recognizing the productivity and cost benefits of some real-time communications and want to enable their use. The challenge remains: how do you mitigate business risks while allowing employees to collaborate?

The Solution?

FaceTime Communications has developed what it dubs the Unified Security Gateway (USG), which provides a single solution that enables organizations to get visibility into and control over the use of social networking and other Web 2.0 activities, as well as over standalone real-time communications applications like IM and P2P and unified communications environments like Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime.

USG enables companies to safely let their employees use FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and other personal and professional social networking sites. With USG, enterprises can

  • Manage access to and use of applications within social networking sites like Facebook according to established acceptable use policies
    • Lower the risks from inbound threats and outbound data leakage
    • Meet employee needs without impacting productivity or security
    • Maintain regulatory compliance through logging and archival.
  • Keep protection on track with dynamic updates of new social networking sites and applications hosted by those sites
  • Benefit from a single point for enablement, access management, security and control for web and real-time channels
  • Protect investment in security today by providing a platform on which future web-borne threat prevention can be built

With flexible deployment options, USG fits seamlessly into existing network topologies to offer the highest level of security with zero latency and a low total cost of ownership.

Your Next Step? Meet with a FaceTime expert and get informed!

  • Learn how the Internet landscape has changed and why traditional security solutions fall short on instant messaging, social networking and other Web 2.0 applications
  • Learn why organizations like Gartner recommend that IT managers look at broader secure Web gateway solutions that go well beyond URL filtering controls
  • Identify security and compliance best practices for all Internet applications
  • Translate Acceptable Use Policies into real-time policy enforcement on the network
  • New methods for gaining visibility over rogue users and applications
  • Plus get all your Web security questions answered in a live Q&A session with our experts

To sign-up for a demo please go to: www.Optrics.com/contact.aspx

To learn more About Facetime Unified Security Gateway download the data sheet by going to:

www.Optrics.com/downloads/facetime/facetime-Unified-Security-Gateway-datasheet.pdf

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What Do You Have In Common with These Three Companies?

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We just wanted to share with you some results of recent customer evaluations of FaceTime’s new Unified Security Gateway so that you can see the some of the value that these organizations got by conducting a free 14 day trial.

All 3 Companies said:

  • We block Public Instant Messaging
  • We block P2P applications like Skype and File Sharing
  • We don’t have a Spyware problem

But the most interesting thing about these results is what each organization had in common within their network infrastructure:

  • Each Company was protected by two layers of firewalls
  • Each Company used WebSense and Bluecoat for managing web content
  • Each Company had a dedicated Intrusion Prevention System in place

The charts below show the number of Instant Messaging conversations and connections made using P2P applications over a 2 week period:

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In all 3 of the cases above, the evidence backed what FaceTime has been saying for sometime – The Internet has changed.

Internet usage and application use on your network is being propelled by users who want to communicate through Social Networking sites like FaceBook and through Instant Messaging or P2P applications like Skype.

FaceTime is the only company that can control over 200 real-time applications, and securely enable the use of Instant Messaging applications and Skype in your corporate environment.

If you are concerned about the security issues with social networking websites please contact us or register for an eval by going to: www.Optrics.com/FaceTime.aspx


About FaceTime Communications:

FaceTime Communications provides security solutions for the management and control of greynet applications such as instant messaging, P2P file sharing, and adware/spyware. Our solutions are used by more than 900 customers worldwide including General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, NCR, and Medtronic.

FaceTime allows organizations to enable the legitimate use of greynets while also preventing unwanted use.

Enterprise-grade security solutions include:

  • Prevent unauthorized IM and P2P connections and spyware at the Internet gateway
  • Allow you to manage, control and standardize all IM use in the enterprise
  • Enable content blocking and filtering over IM to eliminate loss of confidential info and intellectual property
  • Reduce the spread of viruses and worms to your network with anti-virus and anti-spam controls
  • Deliver gateway-triggered targeted remediation to spyware-infected endpoints
  • Provide logging and archiving of all IM conversations for corporate and regulatory compliance

Below please find links to additional resources:

Greynets White Paper
www.FaceTime.com/pdf/wp_greynets.pdf

Anti-Spyware White Paper
www.FaceTime.com/pdf/wp_antispyware.pdf

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