Websense Security Solutions

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.

Websense Hosted Email Security provides protection at the internet level, eliminating spam and malware before they reach your network. The hosted deployment model provides centralized security with built-in redundancy, failover, and business continuity, while easing administration and optimizing network operating and capacity planning costs.

Guaranteed by industry-leading SLAs, Hosted Email Security reduces business costs, eliminates the complexity and uncertainty of managing email threats, and provides the highest possible degree of protection.

This service was previously labelled Blackspider.

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 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.

• 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.

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.

Websense Email Filter 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.

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.

Out-of-the box HIPAA and GLBA rules make it easy to converge SMTP email compliance requirements with the same technology you trust to block email threats.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.