FINANCE / BANKING / INSURANCE SOLUTIONS

Financial institutions must protect vast quantities of sensitive data. The finance industry has to be vigilant against unauthorised access to financial or transaction data, knowing how customers would react to news that confidential data had been stolen or compromised.

Financial institutions must also protect themselves from spyware and malicious mobile code (MMC) that is increasingly common on web sites. In fact, according to industry data, nearly half (48.6 percent) of MMC is embedded on web sites that many companies would normally allow employees to access freely, such as travel sites and search engines.

GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY ACT

Section 501 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act mandates that financial services firms implement and enforce a written "information security program" to protect non-public customer data. It is therefore important that financial institutions be able to monitor and track any electronic information entering or exiting their messaging systems as an integral part of IT security.

INTERNET USE STATISTICS

• 80 percent of companies reported that employees had downloaded pornography or pirated software. (CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2003)
• 1 in 3 companies have spyware on their network. (Websense Survey, 2003)
• The number of malicious code attacks with backdoors, which are often used to steal confidential data, rose nearly 50% in the last year. (Symantec, 2003)

THE WEBSENSE SOLUTION

Websense offers the only solution that filters at multiple points at the gateway, on the network, and on the desktop to provide protection against emerging threats. Websense protects organisations and their employees who use the internet from new and emerging threats such as spyware, and MMC.