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WEBSENSE UNVEILS THE THREATSEEKER NETWORK

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"Protecting Essential Information"
World's First Internet "HoneyGrid" discovers and classifies Web 2.0 content and safeguards essential data

Websense was the first to classify the Internet and protect customers from Web-based threats and the first to combine Web intelligence with user and data knowledge to protect customers' information from data loss. Businesses need to be able to harness the power of the Web, while protecting their employees, networks and essential information. That's why Websense unveiled the ThreatSeeker Network today—a global network of adaptive security technologies and processes designed to continuously monitor the Internet for changes and emerging threats. The resulting intelligence is immediately incorporated into the company's Web security, messaging security and data loss prevention solutions. As a result, organizations can advance their objectives using the Internet as a business platform while managing risks to their essential information, systems and employees.

Websense ThreatSeeker Network Defined
Customer Spotlight
"One of the best things about Websense is its continued investment in innovative security technology. I honestly can't imagine what our security posture would be like if we didn't have products backed by the Websense ThreatSeeker Network, which is the best set of security categorization and detection technologies we have seen available on the market.""

Chief Security Officer Beth Cannon of Thomas Weisel Partners

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The New Websense ThreatSeeker Network, which features the world's first "Internet HoneyGrid" melds both honeypots and advanced grid computing systems to parse through more than one billion pieces of content daily, searching for security threats. The new system uses more than 50 million real-time data collecting systems worldwide to monitor and to classify Web, messaging and data content—giving Websense unparalleled visibility into the state of content on the Internet. With this unique Internet intelligence, Websense security products can adapt to the rapidly-changing Internet at speeds not possible by traditional security solutions from Symantec, McAfee and TrendMicro, and basic Web filtering solutions offered by Secure Computing, BlueCoat and others.

ThreatSeeker Network Includes:

  • Includes more than 100 Websense Security Labs researchers worldwide with the leadership of industry luminaries
  • Leverages content classification and data identification with binary, lexical and statistical analysis along with heuristics, image recognition, machine learning, pattern detection, natural language processing and data fingerprinting
  • Leverages data-mining honeyclients that mine and analyze more than 100 million Web sites daily
  • Uses more than 50 million real-time data collecting systems parsing through one billion pieces of content daily
  • Scans more than 100 million emails and 50 million Web sites daily to classify content "in the cloud" through Websense hosted security data collection services
  • Scans nearly ten million emails for unwanted content and malicious code every hour
  • Uses honeypots and spamtraps that capture spam, phishing or exploit campaigns, accounting for more than 10 million unsolicited email and Web-based attacks daily
  • Assigns more than two million domains, networks, IPs and hosts with reputations every hour

See demonstrations of current and upcoming Websense Solutions at RSA—visit Websense at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, April 7 - 10, at Booth 1324



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