Mr. Srinivas Gurrapu

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  Srini Gurrapu, Vice President, Product Management, Facetime Communications

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  Srinivas Gurrapu,
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  Srinivas Gurrapu
  
  Vice President, Product Management
  
  As Vice President, Product Management for FaceTime, Srinivas (Srini) Gurrapu is responsible for leading the company's product roadmap, product definition and delivery.
  
  Prior to FaceTime, Mr. Gurrapu worked as Sr. Manager, Product Management for start-up firm Neoteris, which was acquired by NetScreen and Juniper Networks.At Neoteris, Mr. Gurrapu was responsible for building the industry's #1 Secure Remote Access product line.After the Juniper acquisition, Mr. Gurrapu led the strategy and product line for next-generation UAC (Universal Access Control) solutions built-on top of the existing network infrastructure, routers, firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and switches using SSL-based identity and endpoint security technologies.
  
  Prior to Neoteris, Mr. Gurrapu worked at Blue Coat Systems (previously CacheFlow Systems) building their security gateway appliances.Mr. Gurrapu also worked at Microsoft Corporation building Internet services in hosting, wireless and broadband areas, and at Lucent Bell Labs building telecom network management solutions.
  
  Mr. Gurrapu holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from NIT Warangal, 1993.

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  Utilizes Microsoft-sanctioned technologies to disable endpoint infections "The unprecedented growth of instant messaging, Skype and P2P usage in the enterprise has been echoed by an unprecedented growth in threats entering the enterprise network via IM and P2P," said Srini Gurrapu, vice president of product management at FaceTime Communications.

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  The reason, says Srini Gurrapu, FaceTime's VP of Product Development, is that while early adopters of IM management products were seeking the logging capabilities of its software to be able to meet compliance requirements, what's driving adoption now is a need for IM security."Security oriented customers tend to want appliances because they are very simple from a management and administration standpoint," says Gurrapu.If software is installed on a company's own servers then this adds a layer of complexity as someone has to be made responsible for applying patches and updates to the underlying operating system."When you buy a box you don't have to worry about any of that," he says.
  
  Speed of implementation is also an important factor, he says.
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  Only if you use Microsoft's Live Communication Server (LCS) messaging system, Gurrapu says.If you have no contact with LCS then it comes down to a choice based on your perception of which OS is more secure."We prefer Linux, and many customers think it is more secure," he says.

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  FaceTime Announces Greynet Enterprise Manager - [Cached Version]
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  Utilizes Microsoft-sanctioned technologies to disable endpoint infections "The unprecedented growth of instant messaging, Skype and P2P usage in the enterprise has been echoed by an unprecedented growth in threats entering the enterprise network via IM and P2P," said Srini Gurrapu, vice president of product management at FaceTime Communications.

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  FaceTime Communications - Management Team - [Cached Version]
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  Srinivas Gurrapu
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  Srinivas GurrapuVice President, Product Management
  
  As Vice President, Product Management for FaceTime, Srinivas (Srini) Gurrapu is responsible for leading the company's product roadmap, product definition and delivery.
  
  Prior to FaceTime, Mr. Gurrapu worked as Sr. Manager, Product Management for start-up firm Neoteris, which was acquired by NetScreen and Juniper Networks.At Neoteris, Mr. Gurrapu was responsible for building the industry's #1 Secure Remote Access product line.After the Juniper acquisition, Mr. Gurrapu led the strategy and product line for next-generation UAC (Universal Access Control) solutions built-on top of the existing network infrastructure, routers, firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and switches using SSL-based identity and endpoint security technologies.
  
  Prior to Neoteris, Mr. Gurrapu worked at Blue Coat Systems (previously CacheFlow Systems) building their security gateway appliances.Mr. Gurrapu also worked at Microsoft Corporation building Internet services in hosting, wireless and broadband areas, and at Lucent Bell Labs building telecom network management solutions.
  
  Mr. Gurrapu holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from NIT Warangal, 1993.

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  FaceTime Offerings Keyed to Security Concerns - [Cached Version]
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  The reason, says Srini Gurrapu, FaceTime's VP of Product Development, is that while early adopters of IM management products were seeking the logging capabilities of its software to be able to meet compliance requirements, what's driving adoption now is a need for IM security."Security oriented customers tend to want appliances because they are very simple from a management and administration standpoint," says Gurrapu.If software is installed on a company's own servers then this adds a layer of complexity as someone has to be made responsible for applying patches and updates to the underlying operating system."When you buy a box you don't have to worry about any of that," he says.
  
  Speed of implementation is also an important factor, he says.
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  Only if you use Microsoft's Live Communication Server (LCS) messaging system, Gurrapu says.If you have no contact with LCS then it comes down to a choice based on your perception of which OS is more secure."We prefer Linux, and many customers think it is more secure," he says.

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  FaceTime Teams with PortAuthority Technologies and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/15/2006    Last Visited: 6/22/2008  

  "Instant Messaging, Peer-to-Peer networks, Skype, Spyware and other Greynets represent the largest, uncontrolled avenues for the loss of sensitive corporate information," said Srini Gurrapu, Senior Director of Security Products for FaceTime Communications.

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  FaceTime's Many Visages - [Cached Version]
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  "Our mission , and the reason we are different from say Akonix or IMlogic , is that we are not just looking at IM, we look more broadly at real-time applications, including WebEx, collaboration software, peer-to-peer applications, and SSL VPNs," says Srini Gurrapu, FaceTime's vice president of product management.
  
  He believes real-time applications for conferencing, collaboration, VoIP, and IM will all begin to merge together in more integrated applications.Therefore, the challenge for IM security companies, he believes, is to understand that IM is just a subset of real-time applications, and customers are after protection and management tools that apply to all real time applications, not just IM applications."If, for example, we don't have the technology to secure P2P channels, then we are not addressing the problems of our customers.So we need to have a more comprehensive offering than just IM tools," says Gurrapu.
  
  The problem with managing and protecting against many P2P based applications - which can include IM - is that they can port crawl and their protocols change frequently, so they can be difficult to detect.To get around this FaceTime does not rely in signature recognition exclusively, but also uses behavior analysis - which includes detecting the presence "heartbeat" of many real time applications - deep flow analysis and statistical techniques to recognize unwanted applications for what they are as packets enter or leave the network.
  
  For the moment, Gurrapu says Skype is causing the most headaches, although many of these will be overcome in the coming months."Skype is the largest IM network and it gets anywhere," he says.

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  Proofpoint : FaceTime and Proofpoint Partner to... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/14/2006    Last Visited: 3/7/2008  

  "Working with partners such as Proofpoint, we can provide our customers with a comprehensive security and compliance solution for real-time collaborative applications such as IM, operating in concert with the system they have in place for email policy enforcement," said Srinivas Gurrapu, vice president of product management for FaceTime Communications.

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