Increased corporate adoption of instant messaging technology has required robust tools to enable IT professionals to ensure proper access and control. Forensic and Compliance Systems (http://www.cryoserver.com ), the world's only forensic grade compliant message archiving solution, to provide IT professionals with the tools they need to better manage and archive unstructured data, announced today a strategic partnership with the leader in security, compliance and management for the new Internet, FaceTime Communications. Including unstructured data such as instant messages, Business customers, by employing FaceTime's IMAuditor together with Forensic and Compliance Systems' Cryoserver Compliant Messaging Archive Appliance, now have a comprehensive, scalable solution for secure and compliance archival of enterprise communications.

The use of greynet applications such as instant messaging is widespread. Greynets are real-time communications applications that are often introduced by individual end users and use highly evasive techniques to traverse the network. Nearly 100 percent of respondents to a recent survey of IT managers conducted by an independent market research company on behalf of FaceTime, NewDiligence, report at least one greynet application in use. The same study reports 38 percent of the employees send personal IMs or engage in chat while at work, while 85 percent of employees say they use their work computers for "personal, non-work purposes".  

A total business communication archive strategy that also safeguards against risks associated with government regulation non-compliance, the costs associated with eDiscovery, and increased exposure to security breaches over IM networks, is provided to customers by the combination of IMAuditor with the Cryoserver Compliance Messaging Archive Appliance.

Combining Cryoserver and IMAuditor leverages the capabilities of Cryoserver Enterprise Email Compliance platform and the multi functional abilities of the FaceTime Instant Messaging architecture. Enterprises will now have the ability to provide compliant messaging archives for:

    * Email Platforms: Sun One, IBM Lotus Domino, Novell Groupwise, Microsoft Exchange, Scalix and most Linux services
    * Public IM Networks: ICQ, GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Skype, and more
    * Enterprise IM Networks: Jabber, Antepo, Sametime, LCS, OCS, Parlano MindAlign
    * Professional Community Networks: Communicator Inc., Bloomberg, Reuters, PivotSolutions

Including finance and education, legal, as well as government agencies, Cryoserver is a forensic email compliance solution that meets the data protection and privacy requirements of a wide range of organizations in industries.