About Websense Web Security Gateway:
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Secure your
business from dynamic web threats while enabling
Web 2.0 tools for Enterprises with 500+ employees
- Web 2.0 threat protection
- Real-time dynamic threat protection
and web content categorization
- Visibility and control with Web-based
GUI
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Websense Web Security Gateway allows organizations
to secure Web traffic effectively while still enabling
the latest Web-based tools and applications. Through
a multi-vector traffic scanning engine, Websense Web
Security Gateway analyzes Web traffic in real-time,
instantly categorizing new sites and dynamic content,
proactively discovering security risks, and blocking
dangerous malware.
Backed by the powerful ThreatSeeker Network technologies,
Websense Web Security Gateway provides advanced analytics—including
rules, signatures, heuristics and application behaviors—to
detect and block proxy avoidance, hacking sites, adult
content, botnets, keyloggers, phishing attacks, spyware,
and many other types of unsafe content. Independent
testing confirms that the Websense Web Security Gateway
leads the market and exceeds analyst criteria for malware
protection, data loss prevention, Web 2.0 threat detection,
accuracy and effectiveness.
Websense integrates these real-time capabilities
with its industry-leading Web security platform to provide
Web filtering with over 90 URL categories, Web reputation,
management of 120 network and application protocols,
instant messaging attachments, Websense Web Protection
Services, and more.
Websense Web Security Gateway requires Websense Premium
Support unless otherwise approved.
- Effective protection against Web 2.0 threats
– Unique insight into the dynamic nature of
Web 2.0 enables organizations to securely embrace
the new technology
- Clear visibility into all Web traffic – Reliable content analysis, including SSL encrypted
content
- Simplified control – State-of-the-art,
Web-based GUI allows you to enforce policies and
reduce management costs
The Internet is evolving rapidly. Web 2.0 technologies
like collaborative environments, social networking,
and hosted applications are dramatically changing the
way people interact and work. These new technologies
can benefit business, but they also introduce unprecedented
security risks.
The Websense ThreatSeeker™ Network
The Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network adaptive
security technologies and processes continuously
monitor the Internet for changes and emerging
threats and feeds security intelligence
into our Web security, messaging security
and data loss prevention solutions. As a
result, Websense is able to adapt to the
rapidly changing Internet at speeds not
possible by traditional security solutions
and basic Web filtering solutions. |
Control and Secure Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is profoundly changing the way we work and
interact. More than 90 of the top 100 Web sites are
categorized as social networking or search sites, supporting
dynamic or user-generated content. Many organizations
are embracing the Web as a business platform, but Web
2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking
sites, and RSS feeds, render traditional security technologies
such as antivirus, Web reputation, and basic URL filtering
ineffective.
Web 2.0 can yield enormous benefits for organizations,
including improving customer intimacy and satisfaction,
and building a competitive advantage. Web 2.0, however,
also bears new risks—to security, to productivity, and
to legal liability. Nevertheless, organizations can
significantly benefit from Web 2.0 technologies and,
whether they like it or not, their employees are using
these new tools and Web-based applications under the
radar of IT and network security teams.
The Websense® Web Security Gateway is the industry’s
most accurate and effective solution for Web 2.0 content
filtering and threat protection, enabling organizations
to accelerate business without having to worry about
security, productivity, and liability threats such as
malicious, inappropriate content, and data loss.
The Websense Web Security Gateway offers:
- Visibility and control over dynamic Web content
and outbound data loss, including SSL encrypted
traffic
- Protection against Web 2.0 threats such as dynamic
scripts
- Advanced application controls for IM, P2P, and
more
- Easy-to-use, centralized management and reporting
- Integrated Web proxy and caching
The Solution
The Websense Web Security Gateway allows organisations
to secure Web traffic effectively while still enabling
the latest Web-based tools and applications. Through
a multi-vector traffic scanning engine, the Websense
Web Security Gateway analyses Web traffic in real-time,
instantly categorising new sites and dynamic content,
proactively discovering security risks and blocking
dangerous malware.
Backed by the powerful Websense ThreatSeeker Network,
the Websense Web Security Gateway provides advanced
analytics—including rules, signatures, heuristics and
application behaviors—to detect and block proxy avoidance,
hacking sites, adult content, botnets, keyloggers, phishing
attacks, spyware, and many other types of unsafe content.
The Websense Web Security Gateway also closes a common
security gap: decrypting and scanning SSL traffic before
it enters the network.
Websense integrates these real-time capabilities
with its industry-leading Web security platform which
provides Web filtering with over 90 URL categories,
Web reputation, management of 120 network and application
protocols, Instant Messaging (IM) attachment management,
and more.
Websense Web Security Gateway includes an easy-to-use
management dashboard that provides administrators with
system details, statistics, policy management, activity
logging, and reports in a single interface, which saves
time while reducing errors that can lead to security
breaches.
Websense Web Security Gateway components.
Key Features:
Protection against Dynamic Web 2.0 Threats
Today’s Web is rich with dynamic content. Real-time
content scanning is the only way to effectively control
dynamic Web threats that are designed to circumvent
traditional security methods. The Websense Web Security
Gateway uses proprietary analytic engines developed
by the Websense Security Labs to analyze Web content
as it is requested by an end-user. This advanced control
augments the use of multiple security techniques included
with the gateway, including antivirus, Websense Web
antivirus, Web reputation analysis, behavioral analysis,
and Web filtering using the Websense market-leading
URL database. This advanced protection from Websense
provides the most coverage and the greatest accuracy,
enabling customers to securely leverage the benefits
of Web 2.0.
Control over Dynamic and User-generated Content
Websense has embedded advanced analytics and real-time
content inspection and classification technologies from
the Websense ThreatSeeker™ Network into the Websense
Web Security Gateway. These embedded technologies offer
protection from previously uncategorized or unknown
Web content “on the fly.” The Websense Web Security
Gateway is the only solution that categorizes specific
content on Web pages, such as mashups, rather than just
the Web pages themselves. This “In the second half of
2008, 70 percent of the top 100 sites either hosted
malicious content or contained a masked redirect to
an illegitimate Web site.” Websense Security Labs allows
IT managers to provide access to Web 2.0 sites while
their organizations are protected from sections of sites
that contain inappropriate or unwanted content. Websense
analyzes content posted to Web 2.0, social networking,
and blogger networks as it’s posted, using the industry’s
first and only Web 2.0 early threat outbreak detection
and protection system. This provides customers with
protection from risks before they propagate.
Advanced Application Controls
The growth of network applications such as IM and
P2P provides hackers with a means to disrupt business
and steal confidential data. The Websense Web Security
Gateway provides control of over 130 network protocols
for thousands of applications, mitigating security risks,
and preventing data loss from unauthorized applications.
Integrated Web Proxy and Cache
The Websense Web Security Gateway is built on an
enterprise-class Web proxy and cache platform. This
platform provides enhanced management and control, enabling
real-time content analysis for Web traffic. The integrated
proxy and cache can be utilized by customers to consolidate
existing Web proxy deployments, increasing response
time and performance while saving time and resources
over purchasing and maintaining separate systems.
Visibility and Control for Secure Web Communications
The Websense Web Security Gateway provides inspection
for secure Web communications. The increasing use of
SSL traffic and FTP over HTTP has created blind spots
for legacy URL filters and opens backdoors for threats
and data loss. The Websense Web Security Gateway provides
complete visibility and control for SSL traffic, allowing
organizations to apply effective policy for all Web
communications.
Intuitive Management and Reporting Interface
The Websense Web Security Gateway provides a centralized,
task-based management and reporting interface that integrates
granular policy control with in-depth reporting. The
intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard empowers customers
to easily create actionable reports, and includes over
55 built-in reports to report on user activity and risk
reduction. The gateway requires less time and effort
to manage than competitive solutions, saving time and
money while providing greater visibility and control,
as well as more accurate and granular policy controls.
Deployment Options with Freedom of Choice
The Websense Web Security Gateway is available as
software or on the Websense V10000™ appliance. The software-only
solution is available for organizations that standardize
on specific hardware platforms. For organizations that
prefer an appliance, the Websense V10000 offers simplified
deployment, easy management, automatic updates, and
future-proofing for the Websense Web Security Gateway.
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