FaceTime Communications has introduced Socialite, a security management and compliance solution for social networks. Socialite provides granular control of applications like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and is available as a software-as-a-service deployment (SaaS) or as an on-premises solution as a module of FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway.

Socialite is also the first solution to be deployable as a hybrid solution to deliver the ability to define an on-network policy and a roaming policy for people off-network. Now, organizations can deliver control over social media features and communications for both users on the corporate network and for those situated remotely.

With Socialite, customers have an extended set of feature and content controls for more than 1,000 social networks to ensure compliance with a variety of rules and regulations. In Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the three key social networks, Socialite enables control for 95 distinct activity and content features. Socialite can also moderate and archive content shared on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to ensure that only pre-approved content is shared.

Socialite delivers key benefits to organizations requiring the secure and compliant use of social networks, including:

Identity Management: the ability to establish a single corporate identity and track users across multiple social media platforms (e.g. @SarahFaceTime on Twitter and Sarah Louise Carter on LinkedIn);

Data leak prevention: preventing sensitive data from leaving the company, either maliciously or inadvertently;

Granular Application Control: enabling the access to Facebook and its thousands of "applets" by category or individual application;

Activity control: the ability to manage access to features, such as who can read, like, comment upon or access 95 distinct features on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter;

Moderator control: can be applied to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter where content is required to be pre-approved by a corporate communications officer or other third party; and

Log conversation and content: capture all posts, messages and commentary made to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in context, as well as exporting to an archive of choice for e-Discovery.