Skype-buster, à la FaceTime
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Notoriously difficult to detect, a firewall lurker, Skype is known to prevent network administrators from syruping their coffee quietly ― and if you want to test their level of expertise, go start using it at the office… Nevertheless, Skype lost its stealthiness once again. IM security specialist FaceTime claimed it.
The company has released it IMAuditor platform 7.0, that includes a Skype-buster filter among new IM-detection arsenal. Detection rules are “heuristic”, said Srini Gurrapu, VP of product management for FaceTime.
In fact, IMAuditor is a proxying appliance. From a security point of view, it’s a control center which eases the detection of marauder applications by shrinking the playground of good-and-bad softwares, such as peer-to-peer or VoIP clients. Alone, IMAuditor could not kick Skype ass. That’s the job of RTGuardian Linux. This application would spot and throw it out of the network.
Besides IMAuditor, we already covered another Skype-buster software, Enterprise Threat Shields. If you are in a hurry to deploy a VoIP solution for your company and you don’t want to risk your network security, you might find something interesting among our list of Skype alternatives.
FaceTime adds anti-Skype to IM security [TechWorld]
Apr 7, 2006 | By Nuno
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