The Websense Approach to Messaging Security
Websense® enables organizations to harness the power of email as a vital
business communication vehicle while keeping security risks in check. Stopping
today’s threats requires an expansive view that goes well beyond email. By
integrating best-in-class Web and data security technology with messaging
security, Websense achieves unparalleled visibility into emerging threats and the
highest possible levels of protection from inbound and outbound email risks.
Stopping Converged Threats
Protecting email users against converged Web and email threats requires best-inclass
Web security. Websense draws on over a decade of Web research and
intelligence to ensure email customers are protected. Through the power of the
Websense ThreatSeeker™ Network, Websense is able, in real-time, to proactively
discover and classify Web sites that contain viruses, spyware, and other malicious
code. This information is then used to detect and stop unwanted emails
that contain inappropriate and malicious URLs—stopping threats that other
security systems cannot even detect.
Managing Data Risk
Websense messaging security allows organizations to sytematically manage
confidential data and inappropriate content. Bolstered by the integrated intelligence
of Websense data security expertise, Websense offers in-depth data
inspection combined with more than 100 content and compliance dictionaries
pre-packaged in 12 languages. Granular and flexible policy management allows
organizations to enforce appropriate usage of data, reduce legal liability, support
compliance regulations, and prevent data loss.
Websense ThreatSeeker Network
The Websense ThreatSeeker™
Network adaptive security technology
uses more than 50 million
real-time data collecting systems
that continuously monitor Internet
content—including new and dynamic
content—for emerging threats. The
Websense ThreatSeeker Network
feeds this intelligence into its 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 email
filtering solutions.
The ThreatSeeker Network:
- Analyzes more than 40 million
Web sites per hour
- Assigns reputation to more than
2 million domains, networks, IP
addresses, and hosts every hour
- Scans nearly 10 million emails for
unwanted content and malicious
code every hour
- Captures more than 10 million
unsolicited spam, phishing, or
exploit campaigns every day
Email Threats in a Web 2.0 World:
Email threats are fundamentally different today than they were only a short time
ago. Malicious threats used to be concealed in attachments, but today 85 percent
of unwanted emails contain a link to a Web site*. While cybercriminals have turned
to the Web to deliver spyware, phishing attacks, and viruses in order to infiltrate
networks and steal confidential data, they are using email to lure users into their
traps. Increasingly these traps use the power of Web 2.0 by means of social networking
sites, blogs, and familiar, “trusted” sites with good reputations that have
been compromised.
While they are now commonly used, these engineered attacks are very targeted
and difficult to detect by traditional techniques. Cybercriminals often send
very small messages with links to seemingly legitimate Web sites that slip by
most spam and malware defenses. Reactive, signature-based approaches and
reliance on sender reputation are not enough to protect end-users from these
malicious attacks.
The use of the Web in spam attacks continues to grow.
The Proliferation of Data Leaks via Email
Preventing loss of confidential information is one of the top challenges that many
businesses face today, and managing data leaks via email is of high concern.
With the vast majority of data now digitized and readily available via corporate
networks, it is all too easy for employees to intentionally or accidentally send
inappropriate content or confidential data to places it doesn’t belong. Insufficient
outbound protection can result in legal liability, damage to a company’s reputation,
and violation of compliance regulations.
Messaging Security Products:
A Best-Practice Portfolio for the New Threat Landscape
Available as both a hosted service and on-premise software, Websense messaging
security allows organizations to take a layered approach to email security with a
hybrid deployment. First, the Websense hosted service blocks spam and other
threats before they even reach an organization’s gateway, followed by additional
on-premise security inside the network to prevent data loss. This allows organizations
to gain the full spectrum of protection for essential information. Websense
messaging security changes the complex and uncertain email landscape into one
that is secure and under control.
Maintaining comprehensive email protection has become difficult, especially with
the vast array and volume of complex threats that continue to bombard our
networks. Businesses of all sizes are finding that their network infrastructure is
under significant strain and their administrative resources are over-burdened. Even
the most skilled IT managers are challenged to keep up and costs can quickly get
out of hand.
Websense Hosted Email Security is the solution for these business concerns.
Websense Hosted Email Security provides leading protection from converged
email and Web 2.0 threats by leveraging the power and intelligence of the
ThreatSeeker Network. The hosted security model provides reduced costs and
complexity while allowing businesses to retain control and eliminate uncertainty
through industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs). With Websense
Hosted Email Security, customers gain mission-critical security while enabling
a consolidated security strategy with the trusted leader in Essential
Information Protection.
Websense Hosted Email Security enables customers to:
- Reduce business costs and complexity with no on-site equipment to install or
maintain, savings in bandwidth and storage, no unexpected expenditures, and
eased administrative overhead
- Increase protection with leading security from converged email and Web 2.0
threats backed by industry-leading SLAs and the power of the Websense
ThreatSeeker Network
- Retain control with 24x7 access and flexible customization of policies, configuration
settings, quarantine management, and reporting
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.
While email threats remain prevalent, what is less known is that email is also a
common source of outbound violations as well, resulting in data loss or regulatory
non-compliance. Websense Email Security is a software-based, gateway
solution that incorporates multiple layers of real-time intelligence and marketleading
Web and data security technology to provide highly effective protection
against complex inbound and outbound threats. Websense Email Security
provides powerful and flexible rules-based policy controls for enforcing corporate
email policies.
Websense Email Security enables customers to:
- Increase protection with leading security from converged email and Web 2.0
threats backed by the power of the Websense ThreatSeeker Network
- Enforce outbound compliance and data loss protection with granular and
highly accurate content filtering to help organizations achieve better
corporate governance
- Gain visibility through reporting by helping to monitor email usage with a
customizable dashboard, interactive drill-down reports, automatic report
scheduling, and delivery
Websense Email Security provides flexible and granular reporting capabilities.
Websense Hybrid Email Security combines Websense Hosted Email Security in
the cloud and Websense Email Security at the network gateway. This layered,
hybrid deployment keeps administrative overhead down while providing the
greatest level of efficiency and protection. Inbound protection is delivered
through the hosted solution, filtering spam and viruses, while the on-premise
solution provides for a highly granular level of outbound email protection.
Through this powerful combination, organizations can configure finely-tuned
policies for outbound filtering, ensuring compliance with internal policies and
federal regulations, while taking advantage of the simplicity of a hosted model
to prevent inbound threats.
- 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
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Messaging Security Solutions
