Websense Hybrid Messaging Security | Web Filtering and Web Security

About Websense Hybrid Email Security:

Websense Hybrid Email Security combines Websense Hosted Email Security (in the cloud) and Websense Email Security (at the gateway). Layered email security achieves greater efficiency, protection, and security while maximizing network resources.

Improved network and cost efficiency
Mitigate risk and realize ROI
Use a single trusted vendor

Today’s email threats are more invasive and abundant than ever, and the nature of these attacks is constantly changing. Modern businesses must deploy security solutions that do more than block spam. A good messaging security solution provides clear standards for mitigating risk, while also helping align with corporate compliance and governance policies.

Websense Hosted Email Security filters spam and viruses in the cloud, providing bandwidth and administrative resource savings. On-premise Websense Email Security resides at the gateway to provide granular outbound email protection, allowing for finely tuned policies and an optional second layer for inbound filtering. A hybrid deployment gives you the bandwidth savings of a hosted service combined with on-premise controls for granular email content filtering.

Improved network and cost efficiency – Increase bandwidth and reduce administrative time while keeping email policy control within the network
Mitigate risk and realize ROI – Definitive levels of protection and visibility with drill-down, delegated policy and user-based reporting
Use a single trusted vendor – Consolidate email security through Websense and receive support from a single point of contact

How it Works

Websense Hosted Email Security filters spam and viruses at the Internet level, saving on bandwidth, administration time, and system resources.

On-premise Websense Email Security resides at the gateway and provides granular outbound email protection, enabling organizations to configure finely tuned policies for outbound filtering, as well as an optional second layer for inbound filtering. Powerful reporting tools can be accessed by delegated users. Also, they provide deep attachment inspection to help with regulatory compliance.

Only a hybrid deployment offers the cost savings of a hosted service combined with on-premise policy controls for granular email content filtering.

Key Benefits:

Improved network and cost efficiency
Gain combined benefits from both deployment models, Websense Hosted Email Security and on-premise Websense Email Security. Spam and viruses are blocked before they reach the network, providing increased bandwidth, resources, and improved performance, while ensuring confidential and sensitive messages are kept within the network.
Mitigated risk and exposure with demonstrated ROI
Websense Hosted Email Security provides definitive levels of email and virus protection, providing SLA-backed uptime and visibility into emerging threat trends and activities. On-premise Websense Email Security provides drill-down, delegated policy- and user-based reporting with unparalleled visibility into outbound email threats.
Reduced total cost of ownership
Websense Hosted Email Security reduces the cost of bandwidth consumed by spam, while freeing up time and system resources. Businesses regain valuable hardware and administrative time to focus on other elements of email security, including outbound policy enforcement and compliance.
Reduced complexity through a unified solution
Consolidate email threat protection, compliance, and leak prevention through a unified messaging security solution that blocks multiple types of email-based threats at their point of origin.
Consolidation through a single trusted vendor
Websense is a market leader in providing Web security, messaging security, and data security to businesses worldwide. By consolidating inbound and outbound messaging security through Websense, organizations get support from a single point of contact. Businesses may also broaden protection to include Websense Web and data security, providing complete Websense Essential Information Protection™.

Use Cases:

The following examples illustrate ways in which organizations can benefit from a hybrid deployment.

Use Case #1: Hybrid messaging security keeps inbound and outbound threats where they belong.

Keeping certain types of messages where they belong provides logical benefit: Harmful messages should stay outside the network; sensitive and confidential messages should stay inside the network. Hybrid messaging security keeps potentially harmful email in its place.

In this scenario, Websense Hosted Email Security eliminates viruses, malware, worms, spam, and other threats before they reach the network. On-premise Websense Email Security prevents sensitive data from leaving the network via email. For many customers, especially small- to medium-sized businesses, this provides a good first step toward implementing a comprehensive data leak prevention solution.

Use Case #2: Hybrid messaging security improves network and cost efficiency.

Websense Hosted Email Security can eliminate about 90% of inbound email traffic. This is because roughly 90% of all email is spam. By blocking spam and viruses before they reach the network, the burden of what is processed with Websense Email Security is greatly reduced. The second benefit is that once the bulk of the spam is eliminated, Websense Email Security can perform another screening of the email through a second set of technology, helping to ensure the email is clean.

In this scenario, organizations improve the efficiency of their email processing as well as ensure greater protection through multiple layers of messaging security.

The Websense messaging portfolio includes Websense Hosted Email Security, Websense Email Security, and Websense Hybrid Email Security, a solution that combines layered hosted and on-premise security.

Documentation:

Download the Websense Hybrid Messaging Security Datasheet (PDF).