Real-time communications such as instant messaging, webmail, P2P are not highly popular but also disruptive and security risk for enterprises unless carefully managed with clear usage policies. Many enterprises are struggling to close the security holes opened by such grenet applications. FaceTime Communications provides security solutions enabling businesses to secure and control greynet applications such as instant messaging, adware/spyware, webmail, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice.
The Beginning
Founded in 1998 and began selling security products in 2000. FaceTime is a privately held company.
The Success Team
Kailash Ambwani, President and Chief Executive Officer
Frank Cabri, Vice President of Marketing
Christopher Dean, Sr. Vice President of Business Development
Deric Moilliet, Vice President of Sales
Marcus Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Sridhar Vutukuri, Vice President and Country Head, India
"Highly mobile work force, combined with high-pressure response times, 7x24 service and global reach are some of the reasons behind the growing success of IM, webmail and other real-time communication methods. This is also giving birth to a whole lot of security risks for enterprises. FaceTime Communications solutions are timely and are focused on helping organizations plan, manage and control usage of such greynet applications."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makes FaceTime Communications a "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
FaceTime Enterprise Spyware Prevention Suite™ – Defense in depth protection against spyware and adware in the enterprise
FaceTime Enterprise Edition™ – Comprehensive solution for the end-to-end security, management and compliance of instant messaging
RTGuardian™ – Secures unauthorized use of IM and P2P and prevents spyware at the Internet gateway
IMAuditor™ – Set user policy, manage and control usage, and archive and log IM for corporate and regulatory compliance
RTMatrix™ – A Developer kit to Enable customization of IM and presence-aware applications into existing systems
FaceTime Security Labs is the industry’s largest research team dedicated to the collection, analysis, understanding, and management of threats generated through the intentional or accidental use of greynet applications. FaceTime Security Labs also maintains the popular SpywareGuide.com site, which is the leading public reference site for spyware research, providing details about spyware and adware applications, their known variants, and their behavior through an extensive and continually updated database. With these expert labs, FaceTime can successfully keep customers at least one step ahead of threats from greynet applications like adware/spyware, P2P file sharing and IM.
People & Investors
The company is led by
Kailash Ambwani who is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive with more
than 15 years in the consumer and enterprise software and services industries.
Well known malware researchers Wayne Porter and Christopher Boyd recently joined FaceTime's expert staff of researchers to keep customers educated and prepared to prevent new threats to their business.
Investors include
BA Venture Partners,
JK&B Capital and
Sutter Hill Ventures.
Performance and Growth
FaceTime’s gateway-to-desktop spyware prevention solution enjoyed over 100% growth quarter-over-quarter – it is the only solution with patent pending inoculation to prevent spyware on a PC without installing any client software.
During the third quarter ending July 2005, FaceTime achieved the highest revenue quarter in the company’s history, expanding its customer leadership by winning a record number of new customers for regulatory compliance, IM security, spyware prevention and P2P control. FaceTime is continuing to see its business grow within financial services and are rapidly extending across other vertical industries as organizations recognize the need for visibility and protection against unsanctioned applications. FaceTime Q4 revenue for the end of October eclipsed Q3, resulting in the 2nd consecutive record quarter for the company.
FaceTime Enterprise Edition serves eight of the ten largest banks and 17 FIMA members, providing instant messaging policy management, message hygiene, compliance capabilities, blocking of unauthorized IM, and network protection.
Potential & Strategies
IP Partnerships with
Communicator Inc., Antepo,
Yahoo, Jabber, IBM Lotus Software, Reuters AOL, Microsoft and Parlano.
