OPSEC Partners

Websense Enterprise

Product Version Certified: 6.2 for Windows 2000/2003, Solaris and Red Hat Linux for Check Point Next Generation (including NG AI and NGX).

Product Description: Websense Web Security Suite provides a best-in-class internet security solution that protects organizations from both internal and external web-based threats. Websense protects against spyware, malicious mobile code (MMC), and phishing and pharming attacks; and unlike some other solutions, Websense blocks spyware and keylogger backchannel communications from ever reaching their host servers. In addition, only Websense offers the SiteWatcher and BrandWatcher services, which help protect your website and brand.


Key Features and Benefits OPSEC Integration Additional Information

The Company: Websense, Inc., is the global leader in web filtering, and a premier provider of web security and endpoint security software. With over 22.4 million seats under subscription, Websense, is preferred by leading Fortune 500, and FTSE 100 customers, as well as government agencies and educational institutions. Websense products increase employee internet productivity and secure organizations from emerging internet threats by providing a proactive web security component that complements traditional security solutions. Only Websense delivers flexible, integrated policy enforcement at the internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop.

Key Features and Benefits

Provides an integrated internet security solution, protecting organizations from both internal and external web-based threats.:

Blocks known threats before they reach the desktop - Websense identifies security threats-including spyware, malcode, phishing, pharming, keylogging and backchannel communication.
Quickly identifies new threats - scans and classifies over 450 million websites per week for malicious activity and adds over 450 unique malicious websites and 250 unique malicious applications to the Websense Master Database each week.
Decreases threat exposure time - Real-time security updates are available within minutes of the discovery of a new high-risk threat with no administrative intervention required-unlike antivirus solutions that may take days to deploy.
Manages instant messaging (IM) and IM attachments - Websense fills the security and compliance gap inherent in IM communications, which present significant risks for intellectual property theft and malicious attacks.
Prevents dangerous protocol-based applications from introducing security problems - Websense Dynamic Protocol Management™ offers the unique ability to extend policy control to the network level including management of peer-to-peer (P2P), email, file transfer, and other protocols.
Swiftly alerts when customers' websites have been compromised - SiteWatcher alerts Websense customers when their websites have been infected with malicious mobile code (MMC), allowing organizations to take immediate action to prevent its spread to customers, prospects, and partners. BrandWatcher alerts Websense customers when their websites or brand has been targeted in a phishing or malicious keylogging code attack providing organizations with security intelligence, attack details, and other security-related information.

OPSEC Integration

The advanced web security and web filtering capabilities in Websense Web Security Suite are a natural complement to FireWall-1. Integrated as a TCP based network interface utilizing the OPSEC UFP API, Websense can be set up to run on the VPN-1/FireWall-1 server or on its own stand alone server sitting behind the gateway. The seamless relationship between these leading products is a major advantage to users who can now have network security and Internet filtering in one joint solution.

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