Websense Security

Websense Security

Employee Internet Management (EIM) for Your Enterprise

Websense Appliance Bluecoat

Websense Endpoint Security

Websense Web Security

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98.2% of organizations used antivirus software.
90.7% had firewalls in place.
75.0% used anti-spyware software.

BUT, within the previous 12 months…
83.7% experienced at least one virus, worm, or Trojan horse incident.
79.5% experienced at least one spyware incident.

Source: 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey

Perimeter defenses, like firewalls, are designed to prevent web security threats from outside. But, perimeter defenses can be bypassed. Endpoint defenses, like antivirus software on the desktop, are designed to prevent threats from the inside. But, antivirus software can only protect against threats when the threat is already known. Clearly, a more comprehensive, defense-in-depth solution is needed.

A critical component of any defense-in-depth strategy, Websense provides an additional layer of protection against web security and endpoint security threats:

To ensure the needed protection, organizations need to incorporate content level protection into their overall security strategies. Websense provides two premier web security solutions:

Websense Web Security Suite is an integrated web security solution that fills the time and technology gaps of traditional network defenses.

Websense Web Security Suite - Lockdown Edition includes all of the benefits of Websense Web Security Suite and extends this protection to address endpoint security threats.

How Websense Works ?

Websense is based on pass-through filtering technology, the most accurate, reliable and scalable method of Internet filtering. Pass-through filtering requires all requests for Web pages to pass through an Internet control point such as a firewall, proxy server or caching device. Websense is integrated with these control points and checks each request to immediately determine whether it should be allowed or denied. All responses are logged for reporting purposes.

Websense filters Internet content by working in conjunction with the Websense Master Database of more than 4 million sites, organized into 80+ categories, including MP3, gambling, shopping and adult content. You can choose to block, permit, limit by time-based quota or postpone access to individual categories by user, group, workstation or network.

New sites are added to the database daily, and Websense Enterprise automatically downloads updates to the database every night to ensure you’re keeping up with the rapid evolution of the Internet.

Websense Enterprise

There are six components of Websense Enterprise that work together to ensure the effective implementation of your Internet Access Policy:

1. Websense Enterprise v5, EIM: a software product that integrates with a variety of hardware products and allows you to set policies consistent with your existing Internet Access Policy

   Included with every Websense Enterprise subscription is the Websense v5 Language Pack that provides translated report templates, block pages, and Web page category names in seven languages.

2. Websense Enterprise v5 for Small and Medium Businesses, which provides the power and functionality of an enterprise EIM solution in an easy to install, stand-alone software product

3. Websense Enterprise v5, CAM: Client Application Manager (CAM)™, an add-on module to Websense Enterprise, proactively manages desktop applications using a unique software categorization and user-policy management tool. From high-risk applications such as hacking tools, to security threats like instant messaging and spyware, to the bandwidth drain of peer-to-peer file sharing, CAM allows control of applications based on management specifications.

4. The Websense EIM Database: the industry's most accurate, largest and up-to-date categorization of the World Wide Web, consisting of 1 billion Web pages organized into 80+ categories of Web content

5. Websense EIM Reporting Tools: Websense Reporter and Websense Explorer Easy-to-use reporting tools that provide reporting you evaluate employee Internet use at your company

6. WebCatcher: Use WebCatcher to optimize the Websense Database for your needs. Sites visited at your company that are unrecognized are automatically sent to Websense for review. Appropriate sites are then added to the database. By using WebCatcher, the Websense database will adapt to the surfing patterns of your company, ensuring that sites visited by employees are categorized and can be managed.

Websense Enterprise Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Introduction: Websense web security suite

Websense Web Security Suite is a leading web security solution that protects organizations from existing and emerging web-based threats. Through its industry-leading web security technology and the expertise of Websense Security Labs, Websense Web Security Suite protects against spyware, malicious mobile code, and phishing and pharming attacks. 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.

Websense Web Security Suite Benefits:

• Blocks known threats before they reach the endpoint and alerts on potential network threats-Websense Web Security Suite identifies security threats—including spyware, drive-by spyware, bots and bot network traffic, malcode, phishing, pharming, and keylogging—and blocks 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 Security Labs mines and analyzes over 450 million websites per week for malicious activity. Real-Time Security Updates are available within minutes of the discovery of a new high-risk threat with no administrative intervention required.
  
• Protects against web security threats before they reach the desktop-Websense Web Security Suite protects organizations from spyware and malcode attacks, phishing and pharming attempts, and other web-based threats.
  
• Stops resident spyware and keyloggers from doing damage-Websense Web Security Suite blocks spyware and keylogger backchannel communications to host servers.
  
• 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.
  
• Blocks malicious HTTP traffic on all ports-Websense Web Security Suite blocks malicious HTTP traffic on Port 80 and all other ports, closing the “ports” used by sophisticated internet threats and spyware and keylogger backchannel communications.
  
• 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. SiteWatcher alerts Websense customers when their websites have been infected with malicious mobile code, allowing them to take immediate action to prevent its spread to customers, prospects, and partners. BrandWatcher alerts Websense customers when their websites or brands have been targeted in phishing or malicious keylogging code attacks. Websense provides customers with security intelligence, attack details, and other security-related information, so that organizations can then take action to protect their customers. ThreatWatcher provides Websense customers with a “hacker's-eye” view of their web server, regularly scanning for known vulnerabilities and potential threats and reporting on risk levels and recommended actions through a web-based portal. With ThreatWatcher, organizations can prevent attacks on their web servers before they happen.

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