Pricing for SurfControl products will remain unchanged for Q4 2007. Websense is offering the following price protection on existing SurfControl Web Filter and Mobile Filter subscriptions. When customers renew their present subscription for the first time, Websense will ask them to pay the same amount, per seat or user that they paid previously. If a customer has plans to add seats, users or sites, Websense will price the expansion the same way.

Additionally, customers are no longer required to purchase SurfControl Collectors for redundant licence keys.

Please continue to call your normal support numbers.

Overall, this acquisition gives Websense the scale and product portfolio to continue to innovate. Websense’s goal is to offer SurfControl customers the best of both companies’ award-winning web security, innovative protection from information leaks, and highly effective messaging security with solid, competent product support for SurfControl and Websense products, all at competitive prices. SurfControl customers will benefit from the following:

• Continued support for SurfControl's Web Filter and Mobile Filter
• Continued investment in development of Email Filter, MailControl and WebDefense
• Enhanced database functionality for Web Filter and Mobile Filter
• Price protection on existing SurfControl Web Filter and Mobile Filter subscriptions
• Forums for on-going customer communication, focusing on the quality of support and product direction

Our acquisition of SurfControl accelerates our strategy, augmenting the Websense product and technology portfolio with e-mail security and an on-demand hosted option for both e-mail and web security. Our goal is to provide our customers the best of both companies: award-winning web security, innovative protection from information leaks, and highly effective messaging security with solid, competent product support for SurfControl and Websense products, all at competitive prices.

The SurfControl acquisition provides Websense with:

• More than 1,000 employees across North America, EMEA, APAC
• Over 50,000 customers and more than 41 million seats or users under subscription
• Expanded global network of security and technology partners (4900+ Channel Partners)
• Comprehensive product portfolio that delivers inbound/outbound protection across all communication channels to all customer segments: small, mid-size and enterprise
• World class security expertise in Websense Security Labs™, spanning the globe
• In the UK, the combined company will have 8000+ customers

To help drive customer satisfaction and retention, Websense announced the creation of a “Customer Investment Protection Program”. Please find below the Websense five point pledges to SurfControl customers:

• Continued support for SurfControl's Web Filter and Mobile Filter: Although we do not plan to add new features outside of database enhancement, Websense will support these products with a fully staffed maintenance and support team through the end of 2011. There will be no requirement for customers to “migrate” to Websense products during this timeframe.


• Continued investment in development of E-mail Filter, MailControl and WebDefense: These product lines are important to our long term strategy and will remain in active development. We are very excited about opportunities to integrate the technologies from these critical product lines more broadly across Websense’s offerings, specifically focusing on building the world's best "reputation services" for the web and e-mail.


• Enhanced Web Filter and Mobile Filter with Websense URL database: Websense will enhance these products by supplementing the SurfControl URL database with additional web filtering and security coverage provided by Websense Security Labs™ and ThreatSeeker™ technology, including more than 200,000 high-risk sites. We will continue to use the current SurfControl URL categories, so operational disruption will be minimised. We believe this will provide you with significantly improved security functionality. We intend to complete this integration by the end of the first calendar quarter of 2008.


• Price protection on existing SurfControl Web Filter and Mobile Filter subscriptions. When you renew your present subscription for the first time, we will ask you to pay the same amount, per seat or user that you paid previously. If you have plans to add seats, users or sites, we will price the expansion the same way.


• Forums for on-going customer communication, focusing on the quality of support and product direction: Communication avenues will include an annual customer satisfaction survey and a Customer Advisory Council. Although SurfControl recently completed a customer satisfaction survey in several countries, we will be asking you for an update of how we are doing in the next two months in the US and UK. Surveys in other parts of the world will be conducted at a later date. We are structuring these surveys so we can “normalise” the results against those we currently have for Websense products. In our most recent survey, 85% of surveyed customers said they would recommend Websense to peers. We will work hard to achieve this same level of satisfaction for SurfControl products.

The product matrix below represents the complete Websense product portfolio after the successful integration of SurfControl products.

• Websense Express™
• Websense Enterprise®
• Websense Web Security Suite™
• Content Protection Suite
• Web Blazer™
• SurfControl E-mail Filter
• WebDefense – On Demand Web Filter
• MailControl – On Demand Mail Filter
• Surf Web filter**

** SurfControl Web Filter will not be available for new subscription purchase after January 8th, 2008. However, existing and renewal subscriptions for Web Filter will continue to be supported at least through 2011.

Websense has made the decision to discontinue selling new subscriptions, new purchases and renewals for the following products on January 8, 2008:

• SurfControl RiskFilter (outside of China)
• SurfControl E-mail Filter for Exchange
• SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield
• Web Filter (Appliance) **

Websense will accept new subscriptions, new purchases and renewals for these products only through January 8, 2008.

** Websense will accept new subscriptions for SurfControl Web Filter and Mobile Filter for three months following the End of Sale (EOS) announcement date, in this case only through, January 8, 2008. We will continue to accept subscription renewals after January 8, 2008. We are committing to provide support for these products at least through December 31, 2011.

The SurfControl and Websense sales organisations will remain separate until January 2008. SurfControl customers will continue to be serviced by SurfControl sales representatives and Websense customers will continue to be handled by Websense Sales.

Please continue to call your normal support numbers.

Overall, this acquisition gives Websense the scale and product portfolio to continue to innovate. Our acquisition of SurfControl enables us to offer Websense customers access to a broader portfolio of security solutions. Now in addition to our award-winning web filtering, and best in class web security and information leak prevention solutions, Websense customers can add email filtering and on-demand delivery to their Websense solution.

Our acquisition of SurfControl accelerates our strategy, augmenting the Websense product and technology portfolio with e-mail security and an on-demand hosted option for both e-mail and web security. Our goal is to provide our customers the best of both companies: award-winning web security, innovative protection from information leaks, and highly effective messaging security with solid, competent product support for SurfControl and Websense products, all at competitive prices.

The SurfControl acquisition provides Websense with:

• More than 1,000 employees across North America, EMEA, APAC
• Over 50,000 customers and more than 41 million seats or users under subscription
• Expanded global network of security and technology partners (4900+ Channel Partners)
• Comprehensive product portfolio that delivers inbound/outbound protection across all communication channels to all customer segments: small, mid-size and enterprise
• World class security expertise in Websense Security Labs™, spanning the globe
• In the UK, the combined company will have 8000+ customers

As the market leader in web security, Websense has evolved from providing a single best-of-breed web filtering product to offering integrated web, e-mail and internal content security solutions. Today, through an orchestrated strategy of internal development and acquisitions, our solutions range from the highly customisable Websense Web Security Suite™ and Websense Content Protection Suite to the easy-to-install Websense Express™ small and mid-sized business security platform. Our products rely on a foundation of proprietary threat detection and content recognition technologies developed over many years. As a result, only Websense is able to deliver intelligent content protection solutions that combine:

• unparalleled knowledge of malware and where it resides on the web to block threats
• precise identification and categorisation of internal documents and information to prevent leaks
• sophisticated policy engines that enable flexible filtering to enforce web and e-mail security and meet changing business needs

The product matrix below represents the complete Websense product portfolio after the successful integration of SurfControl products.

• Websense Express™
• Websense Enterprise®
• Websense Web Security Suite™
• Content Protection Suite
• Web Blazer™
• SurfControl E-mail Filter
• WebDefense – On Demand Web Filter
• MailControl – On Demand Mail Filter
• SurfControl Web filter**

** SurfControl Web Filter will not be available for new subscription purchase after January 8th, 2008. However, existing and renewal subscriptions for Web Filter will continue to be supported at least through 2011.

Websense has made the decision to discontinue selling new subscriptions, new purchases and renewals for the following products on January 8, 2008:

• SurfControl RiskFilter (outside of China)
• SurfControl E-mail Filter for Exchange
• SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield
• Web Filter (Appliance) **

Websense will accept new subscriptions, new purchases and renewals for these products only through January 8, 2008.

** Websense will accept new subscriptions for SurfControl Web Filter and Mobile Filter for three months following the End of Sale (EOS) announcement date, in this case only through, January 8, 2008. We will continue to accept subscription renewals after January 8, 2008. We are committing to provide support for these products at least through December 31, 2011.