Introducing Websense
V-Series Appliances

The Websense V-Series appliance is a high-performance security gateway appliance with a hardened operating system, optimized for analyzing Web traffic and content.

The appliance offers:

Command line interface for initial appliance settings, available through a USB keyboard and monitor or a serial port connection, that provides basic appliance control commands

Appliance Manager, a Web-based configuration interface that provides management features:

System dashboard, with up-to-the-minute status of the software modules and system resources on the appliance

Appliance configuration and network settings

System administration, including patch management; troubleshooting tools with basic command-line utilities; backup; and restore

Logging of events related to appliance configuration and patching. Log entries can be viewed in Appliance Manager, and the entire log file can be downloaded for later viewing.

Integrated proxy caching and Web filtering after minimal initial configuration

Full customization of proxy caching and Web filtering, available through separate Web-based configuration interfaces.

Configurable links to hybrid Web filtering and off-appliance Data Security features.