FaceTime Secures Social Network Content

The company rolled out Socialite, a compliance tool that allows IT organizations to prevent end users from posting certain types of content on social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

According to Sarah Carter, chief strategy officer for FaceTime Communications, FaceTime's Socialite software can be deployed on a physical or virtual appliance and customers can choose to manage their implementations locally or via SaaS created by FaceTime.

While Socialite can’t prevent users from posting content from their homes, it can prevent anyone on the corporate network from posting certain classes of content or content that includes certain types of keywords.

The Socialite appliance monitors the corporate network in real time and is intended to give IT organizations more granular control than a traditional Web filter over not only what gets posted on a social network, but also who is allowed to post it, said Carter.

Carter noted that a wide variety of regulations and compliance requirements are increasingly holding companies accountable for the actions of their employees on social networks.

Pricing for Socialite ranges from $3,000 to $5,000 for the various appliance implementations, and $12 per user per month for a 12-month commitment to the SaaS implementation.