Websense Web Filter (Websense Enterprise)

About Websense Web Filter:

Market leading web filtering for Enterprises from 50 to 250,000+ users, with networks of virtually any configuration. Granular control, policy and reporting for all web users Instantly actionable data with an intuitive dashboard Web-based GUI reduces management costs

With granular categorization of Web sites into 90+ categories, Websense Web Filter (formerly Websense Enterprise) provides the ability to develop and deploy a flexible, comprehensive Internet-use policy for businesses from 250 to over 250,000 users in a wide range of integration points, including Citrix environments. Combine this with its customizable, industry-leading reporting tools and you have complete visibility into your Web usage.

Websense Web Filter integrates seamlessly with leading network infrastructure products to offer unequaled flexibility and control over Internet usage. Now with Websense Web Filter v7, the world's best Internet filtering software just got better.

• Improve productivity – Control access to non work-related Web sites and applications during work hours
  
• Reduce legal liability – Help guard against inappropriate content from entering the network
  
• Optimize IT resources – Preserve bandwidth by protecting against intensive Web sites and applications such as streaming media

Extend the value of your Websense solution with:

• Websense Content Gateway Module
• Websense Client Policy Manager
• Websense Remote Filtering

Websense Web Filter Key Features:

Best-of-Breed Internet Filtering:

Websense Enterprise combines powerful flexibility with rich functionality.

• Provides comprehensive and accurate internet filtering, including filtering for productivity and bandwidth-draining websites.
• Balances work-related and personal internet use by enabling IT administrators to set custom policies to manage employee internet, network, and application use.

Websense Enterprise improves employee productivity, reduces legal liability,
and optimizes the use of IT resources.

• Reduces the burden on IT by allowing the distribution of administrative tasks across departments, groups, or locations. Individual administrators can customize policies to meet area needs and can assume responsibility for individual users.
• Minimizes administrative overhead in setting and enforcing administration of internet use policies through its easy-to-use central management console.
• Provides report templates, block pages, and webpage category names in Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Flexibility

Only Websense offers organisations the policy flexibility to enforce their acceptable-use policies while balancing that with their culture and business processes.

• Choose between Allow, Block, Continue, Quota, Block by Bandwidth, and Block by File Type options for managing web access; filter sites based on time of day.
• Set policies based on users/groups defined in major directory services, including Citrix®.
• Specify general patterns for URL matching in custom URLs, yes lists, and keywords.
• Re-categorize sites to best meet the organization’s needs through custom URL capabilities.
• Customize block pages with text or an HTML file.
• Allow selected users with valid passwords to access blocked sites.
• Configure alerts based on category and protocol usage.
• Help ensure compliance with privacy policies, union regulations, and other laws by maintaining the privacy and anonymity of users when logging their activities.

Scalability:

Websense Enterprise scales from 50 to 250,000+ users with full reliability and accuracy and is designed to work in networks of virtually any configuration. Three deployment options are available:

• Integrated deployment on a separate server that is tightly integrated with the network gateway platform to offer pass-through filtering that maximizes stability, scalability and performance.
• Embedded deployment on an appliance or gateway product to reduce hardware expense and enhance ease-of-use, particularly in remote locations.
• Standalone deployment utilizing a network agent to deliver pass-by filtering capabilities in any network environment.

Dynamic Protocol Management:

Websense Enterprise offers the ability to extend policy control and enforcement to the network level.

• Set policies for file types and over 80 application protocols, including instant messaging and peer-to-peer protocols.
• Receive automated updates to the protocol list.

Bandwidth Management:

Websense Enterprise enables organizations to optimize their network bandwidth by prioritizing and managing traffic in real time.

• Dynamically monitor and allow or deny bandwidth requests—with no administrative intervention required.
• Set policies establishing thresholds by protocol, website category, group, workstation, network, or time of day.
• Limit new requests when total outbound traffic has reached a pre-set threshold.

Industry-Leading Reporting Tools:

Websense Enterprise provides the most advanced capabilities for identifying organizational risk levels for productivity, legal liability, and network bandwidth loss arising from employee internet use.

• Get immediate, in-depth analysis, exception tracking, and trending capabilities throughout the organization with real-time monitoring and powerful drill-down features.
• Distribute reporting permissions throughout the organization to provide individual areas with increased visibility into their own activities and to reduce the overall burden on IT.
• Run pre-defined and custom reports at pre-set intervals or on an ad-hoc basis.
• Distribute reports automatically via email.
• Export reports to a variety of formats.

The Websense Master Database:

At the heart of all Websense solutions is the Websense Master Database. Utilizing a combination of proprietary classification software and human inspection techniques to ensure the most complete coverage, the Websense Master Database has the most accurate and up-to-date classification of URLs, protocols, and applications.

The Websense Web Security Ecosystem™:

The Websense Web Security Ecosystem is a comprehensive framework of over 40 different technology integrations that provides enhanced security and ease of deployment of Websense web security solutions in enterprise environments. The Websense Web Security Ecosystem incorporates world-class security and networking technologies including: internet gateways, network access control, security event management, identity management, and appliance platforms to help organizations identify and mitigate web-based threats and vulnerabilities.

System Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition, or the same with SP1
• Microsoft Windows® 2000 with SP3 or higher
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 3 or 4: AS, ES, or WS, or Red Hat Linux 9
• Sun® Solaris™ 9 or 10

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Notes:

1. Includes Web-based Explorer only, not Reporter or Real-time Analyzer.

2. Full support provided with Security Filtering add-on, which allows filtering on sites associated with malicious mobile code, spyware, keyloggers, bot networks, potentially unwanted software, and phishing (included with Websense Express and Websense Web Security Suite).

3. Includes “extended” security protection, such as web reputation scoring and malicious traffic, including bot traffic and email borne worms.

4. Provided through Remote Filtering add-on.

Documentation:

Download the Websense Filter (Enterprise) Datasheet (PDF).