Websense Web Filtering
Web Security
The Security Landscape Continues To Evolve
The use of the web to launch attacks, and the variety of methods used to launch attacks has increased in recent years. The number of malicious websites and the amount of malicious code being released with criminal intent (crimeware) has continued to rise. The phishing landscape has also changed considerably, with significant differences in types of targets and attacks. Browser and operating system exploits are being used more frequently, including zero-day exploits used for spyware, crimeware, phishing, and keylogger installations.
New Threats Demand New Technologies
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, organizations need a more comprehensive, defense-in-depth solution.
To ensure the needed protection, organizations need to incorporate content-level protection into their overall security strategies. A critical component of any defense-in-depth strategy, Websense provides an additional layer of protection against web security and endpoint security threats.
Web Security - integrated web security that protects organizations from emerging and existing web-based threats.
Learn more about Websense Web Security Suite.
Websense Is The Global Leader In Web Filtering
Web filtering can help organizations balance employees’ personal internet needs while decreasing the risk of legal liability, maintaining adequate network bandwidth levels, and increasing productivity.
Web Filtering and Legal Liability
Internet use can expose organizations to legal liability when employees engage in illegal or inappropriate activities. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies that prevent employees from engaging in inappropriate behavior.
Web Filtering and Bandwidth Consumption
Organizations can experience decreased network capacity or system downtime when too many employees use bandwidth-intensive applications, like streaming media or internet radio. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies that ensure available bandwidth for business-critical applications.
Web Filtering and Productivity
With the entire world available at their fingertips through the internet, employees can be distracted by non-work related or unproductive activities. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies suited to their culture and business processes.
Websense Enterprise is the world’s leading web filtering solution. Websense Enterprise protects organizations from the productivity, legal liability, and bandwidth risks of the internet, combining powerful flexibility with rich functionality:
- Provides comprehensive and accurate web filtering supported by the Websense Master Database.
- Allows IT administrators to set custom policies to manage employee internet, network, and application use, balancing work-related and personal internet use.
- Minimizes the effort required to set, enforce, and maintain internet use policies through its easy-to-use central management console.
- Allows for customization of report templates, block pages, and webpage category names in Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
