Websense Web Security Suite is a leading web security solution that protects organizations from known and new web-based threats. Based on the industry-leading Websense ThreatSeeker Network, Websense Web Security Suite protects against spyware, malicious mobile code, and phishing attacks, bots, and other threats. Unlike some other solutions, it also blocks spyware and keylogger backchannel communications from reaching their host servers. In addition, only Websense Web Security Suite offers the Websense Web Protection Services that help protect organizations’ websites, brands, and web servers.
Benefits:
NEW Web Reputation. The Websense ThreatSeeker Network leverages years of experience to provide content-aware web reputation intelligence allowing customers to easily extend their protection by managing suspicious websites.
Blocks known threats before they reach the endpoint and alerts on potential network threats-Websense Web Security Suite identifies security threats, such as malicious websites, protocols, applications, and HTTP traffic (on Port 80 and all other ports) and blocks their access at the internet gateway. Websense Web Security Suite also alerts administrators on email-borne worm traffic in the network.
Proactively discovers web security threats-Websense ThreatSeeker Network scans over 595 million websites per week, searching for threats. Real-time security updates are available within minutes of the discovery of a new high-risk threat with no administrative intervention required.
Lowers the risk of intellectual property theft-Websense Web Security Suite lowers the risk of intellectual property theft and malicious attacks through instant messaging (IM), IM attachments, and protocols, such as peer-to-peer, email, file transfer, and others.
Swiftly alerts when websites or brands are under attack and reports web server vulnerabilities-Websense Web Security Suite includes the three Websense Web Protection Services which help organizations protect their websites, brands, and web servers. Websense mines the organizations’ websites and watches their brands and associated URLs as part of its daily activities. If a site is infected with MMC or the name and URL being used in phishing, fraudulent, or other malicious attacks, Websense notifies the organization with attack details so immediate action can be taken. Websense also performs regular web server scans for a “hacker’s-eye view” of server vulnerabilities and potential threats. Reports of risk levels and recommended actions are provided through a web-based portal, allowing organizations to take corrective action.
Provides industry-leading web filtering capabilities-Websense Web Security Suite includes the industry’s leading web filtering technology. This technology, the most comprehensive and accurate on the market, allows organizations to manage productivity, reduce their risk of legal liability, and improve bandwidth use.
Optimizes network bandwidth-Websense Web Security Suite enables organizations to optimize their network bandwidth by prioritizing and managing traffic in real-time based on pre-set thresholds and without requiring administrative intervention.
Includes flexible reporting tools-Websense Web Security Suite provides the most advanced capabilities for identifying organizational security, productivity, legal liability, and network bandwidth consumption risks.
Reduces the burden on IT-Websense Web Security Suite allows organizations to distribute administrative tasks across departments, groups, or locations. Individual administrators can then customize policies to meet their area’s needs and can assume responsibility for their users.
Websense Enterprise
Product description:
Websense Enterprise, the industry-leading web filtering solution, improves productivity, reduces legal liability, and optimizes the use of IT resources. Websense Enterprise integrates seamlessly with leading network infrastructure products to offer unequaled flexibility and control.
Benefits:
Allows organizations to establish flexible internet use policies. Choose between Allow, Block, Continue, Quota, Block by Bandwidth, and Block by File Type options for managing web access; filter sites based on time of day.
Enables organizations to set policies for file types and over 80 application protocols, including email, file transfer, remote access, streaming media, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.
Permits organizations to set policies based on users/groups defined in Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server, and Novell eDirectory accessed via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS, and even in Citrix environments.
Provides powerful, industry-leading reporting tools to analyze and track internet use throughout the organization.
Helps ensure compliance with privacy policies, union regulations, and other laws by maintaining the privacy and anonymity of users when logging their activities.
Enables organizations to optimize their network bandwidth by prioritizing and managing traffic in real-time.
Allows organizations to distribute administrative tasks across departments, groups, or locations to increase visibility within individual areas and to reduce the burden on IT.
Scales from 50 to 250,000+ users with full reliability and accuracy and is designed to work in networks of virtually any configuration. Three deployment options are available:
Integrated deployment on a separate server that is tightly integrated with the network gateway platform to offer pass-through filtering that maximizes stability, scalability and performance.
Embedded deployment on an appliance or gateway product to reduce hardware expense and enhance ease-of-use, particularly in remote locations.
Standalone deployment utilizing a network agent to deliver pass-by filtering capabilities in any network environment.
Websense Express
Product description:
Websense Express provides the industry’s leading content filtering and Internet security capabilities in a simple and affordable solution. It allows organizations under 1000 users to quickly and easily protect their employees from Internet risks by controlling access to inappropriate content and proactively blocking security threats before they have a chance to infect their systems.
Benefits:
Delivers “Instant Value”
Within minutes of installation, management has visibility into how the organization is performing, the level of Internet activity, and where risks exist, such as security threats and bandwidth usage.
Delivers best-in-class web security technology at an affordable price, resulting in fast return on investment
Optimizes user productivity and IT resources
Increases employee productivity and reduces IT staff diversions by proactively managing Internet use and reducing risks associated with using the web.
Ensures employees work in an environment that is managed in a way conducive for business.
Maximizes security and enhances security effectiveness
Increases the overall level of security against web threats (threats NOT addressed by anti-virus or firewalls), and does so in the most cost effective manner- blocking them at the source.
Mitigates risks associated with information theft and unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.
Maximizes business continuity
Provides real-time management visibility into Internet use, and allows customized reporting to give organizations the flexibility necessary to meet their unique operating requirements
Increases overall system uptime and availability by preventing web threats from penetrating the IT infrastructure and disrupting business operations, which can result in revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction, and potential liability.
Includes enterprise level functionality for a small IT investment- from procurement, to setup and ongoing management.
Saves money and streamlines IT operations
Reduces unnecessary spending on numerous layers of IT security technology, and optimizes IT staff.
Reduces problem calls associated with slow network or desktop performance.
Reduces frequency of re-imaging desktops due to corrupted configurations.
Hosted Web Security
Product description:
Websense Hosted Web Security provides centralized web malware protection and granular web filtering. The hosted deployment model provides centralized policy management for any type of environment, including those with remote locations, home offices, and mobile laptops. Hosted Web Security provides is a complete solution or can be layered with existing on-premise security to provide additional layers of web malware protection. Guaranteed by industry-leading SLAs, Hosted Web Security eliminates the complexity and uncertainty of managing web-based threats, while simplifying policy administration for all users within the organization. Benefits:
Security is hosted off your network; you don't have to deploy or maintain anything on-site.
Because there is no hardware or software, you significantly reduce business costs associated with installation, troubleshooting, and applying patches or upgrades.
Hosted security eliminates the risks and uncertainty of managing a security solution yourself.
Predictable service costs stay the same - there are no surprise maintenance fees or upgrade requirements.
As your organization grows, Hosted Web Security has the capacity to support your business. You don't have to calculate what security will be required to support your business - both now and in the future.
Security is guaranteed through industry-leading SLAs, including blocking all known web viruses.
Policy is centralized, including no on-premise or on-client deployment for distributed environments, remote offices, or mobile users.
Websense E-mail Security
Product description:
Websense Email Security software provides comprehensive content filtering for continuous protection against inbound and outbound email threats including spam, viruses, blended threats, data loss, and regulatory violations. Industry-leading threat detection technology and expertise are complemented by simple-to-use monitoring and reporting to provide a high level of control and visibility. Companies can defend against the full spectrum of email threats to reduce business risk, enable business compliance, and ensure business continuity.
Benefits:
Websense Threat Expertise
Websense's Global Threat Experts monitor and analyze emerging Internet threats from Web, email, spyware, and other malicious applications around-the-clock to deliver up-to-date "cross-pollination" protection against today's blended threats.
Secure Content Management
Websense Email Security prevents malicious, inappropriate, or confidential information from entering or leaving an organization by examining every layer of an email, including zipped file attachments and embedded images. Integrated encryption support protects your sensitive business and customer information.
Email Connection Management
Comprehensive connection management protects email infrastructure against directory harvest and denial of service attacks. Connection level reporting allows administrators to rapidly identify specific external threats and take effective countermeasures.
Outbound Compliance and Data Loss Protection Compliance Dictionaries
Out-of-the box HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, and State Data Privacy rules make it easy to converge SMTP email compliance requirements with the same technology you trust to block email threats.
Deep Content Inspection
Websense Email Security identifies content from hundreds of attachment file types-up to 25 layers deep-regardless of whether the content is embedded or compressed.
Unique Outbound End-User Controls
Only Websense provides configurable end-user email management for both inbound and outbound messages, which provides a critical second-check for data as it leaves your network.
Visibility Through Reporting
Report Central provides full visibility into email usage and threats. Interactive drill-down reports, automatic report scheduling and distribution, and delegated access enable technical and business personnel alike to take control of email usage.
Flexible Policy Setting
Pre-defined rules, together with Websense's innovative easy-to-use, drag-and-drop rules engine, deliver granular and flexible policy enforcement. 150+ pre-defined dictionaries in 10 languages are complemented by flexible content filtering customized to your own organization.
Comprehensive Message Management
Advanced message administration features such as multi-criteria message search and history reporting save administrators valuable time. Personal Email Manager gives end-users the ability to view or release both inbound and outbound isolated messages to ensure uninterrupted business productivity.
Websense Data Security Suite
Websense Data Security Suite is the leading solution for comprehensive data loss prevention to:
Prevent data leaks and secure a competitive advantage
Discover and classify data stored throughout the enterprise and improve business processes
Manage regulatory compliance and privacy of customer information
Websense Data Security Suite prevents internal and external data leaks, improves business processes, and manages compliance and risk by discovering where data is located, monitoring its use, protecting it, and securing who and what go where and how.
Data Discovery and Classification
Agent-less network and data discovery to efficiently discover the location of confidential information
Third-generation fingerprinting technology to identify both structured and unstructured data
Situational awareness of data stored throughout the organization to support data security policies
Data Monitoring and Reporting
Monitor internal and external communications, including email, Web, print, and instant messaging using either customizable policies or over 250 out-of-the-box templates
Audit business processes to identify who is sending what information where, and to refine policies and workflows, and reduce risk
Accurately monitor proprietary data, including source code, CAD drawings, and other proprietary content, as well as confidential/regulated customer information
Data Protection and Control
Built-in policy enforcement-to secure who and what go where and how-based on users, data, destinations, channels, and regulations to protect data at rest, in use, and in motion
Automated policy controls with real-time reporting to assist with regulatory compliance and incident management
Scalable, enterprise-ready solution that integrates with existing infrastructure, including encryption, proxy, security information management (SIM) and digital rights management (DRM) technologies, etc.
Websense Data Security Suite uses patent pending PreciseIDTM fingerprinting technology for accurate detection of confidential information. It includes a powerful policy framework to create policies for users, data, destinations, and channels, securing who and what go where and how. This unique approach to content security leverages the Web intelligence of Websense, and empowers organizations to set data security policies that map to real business processes.
