X-Series Overview

X-Series Overview

The Websense® X-Series™ modular chassis family includes the Websense X10G™ blade chassis and Websense X10G security blades, also referred to as appliances. The X10G chassis holds up to 16 security blades and runs Websense Web Security Gateway (Anywhere). Each blade analyzes and filters Web traffic in real time.

The mode in which each blade runs is determined during the execution of the firstboot script. Two choices are available in this release:

Web Security Gateway with no Network Agent

Web Security Gateway optimized for Network Agent

Network Agent, if used, always resides on the blade in slot 16.

See the Getting Started Guide for Websense X-Series for more information on the initial configuration process.

The Websense Web Security Gateway (Anywhere) solution:

Instantly categorizes new sites and dynamic content, proactively discovering security risks, and blocking malware.

Provides advanced analytics—including rules, signatures, heuristics, and application behaviors—to detect and block proxy avoidance, hacking sites, adult content, botnets, keyloggers, phishing attacks, spyware, and many other types of unsafe content.

Closes a common security gap: decrypting and scanning SSL traffic before it enters the network.

These real-time capabilities on the X10G security blade integrate with industry-leading Websense Web Security software to provide Web filtering with over 90 default URL categories and control of more than 150 network protocols and applications.

Software on the security blade can be linked with Websense Data Security solutions, to give data security software access to both Master Database URL categorization and user information collected by Websense Web filtering services.

Software on the security blade can also be synchronized with Websense hybrid Web filtering, an on-demand, cloud-based service, to apply your organization's policies to off-site users, or to branch offices, remote campuses, and so on.

The TRITON - Unified Security Center, used to manage the Web Security software, is typically installed on a Windows Server machine off the security blade. You download this software installation archive from the Websense Web site at www.mywebsense.com.

Note that Websense Email Security Gateway is available on the Websense V-Series™ appliance but is not currently available on X10G security blades.

X-Series Overview