REVIEWS

4/1/08 —
SC Magazine gives Websense Express 5 Star Ratings
SC Magazine reviewed Websense Express in the group test for Web Content Management, ultimately praising it for it's value and giving it an overall 5-star rating.  

02/1/08 —
Websense Express wins PC Magazine Award
PC Magazine reviewed Websense Express and gave it strong ratings, honoring it as PC Magazine Editors' Choice Product. "In general, of all the business Web content-filtering solutions I've ever evaluated, this could be the easiest to install, configure, and understand reports from. Any small to medium business with a single administrator would do well to choose Websense Express for its Internet filtering needs."

12/1/07 —
SC Magazine UK reviewed Websense Express and rated it 5 out of 5 stars:
SC Magazine UK reviewed Websense Express and gave it its highest ratings based on its industrial-strength web content and protocol filtering solution.

10/03/07 —
Preview: Websense Content Protection Suite Brings Web Smarts to DLP
The InfoWorld Test Center said Content Protection Suite version 6 improves accuracy with content and context awareness, and natural language processing capabilities.

Web Filtering Premium
Testing Criteria
For a product to be certified for Premium Web Filtering Checkmark Certification by West Coast Labs, the product must ensure that during the test period, 100% of attempts to access material via the web in contravention of a standard web usage security policy will fail and that such attempts will be logged.

Anti-Spyware Installed
For a product to be certified to the Installed Spyware Checkmark, it must be able to detect and nullify a range of installed spyware samples drawn from the West Coast Labs test suite. West Coast Labs’ Spyware Test Suite includes a variety of backdoors, downloaders, exploits, proxies, RATs, password stealers, crackers, hijackers, financials and stealers.

Websense Enterprise selected as leading web filtering product for SMB market
"Websense Enterprise is the leader in the web filtering market, and it’s easy to see why. Websense is the clear winner in our test scenario, providing unrivaled granular control over its web content filter settings. Websense Enterprise was, by far, the easiest to configure of the three products in this roundup. Installation was a no-brainer."

Anti-Spyware Competitive Review
"... squashed 88% of our test spyware. It distinguishes spyware by Secure Hash Algorithm-based signatures, computer program name, URL and IP address access... also detects infected PCs by noting - and blocking - attempts by spyware to send information back to a known spyware URL or IP address. It also can thwart peer-to-peer file sharing, such as is commonly used by music download services."

Websense Enterprise given 5-out-of-5 stars for Policy Management/Enforcement
"Websense Enterprise gives a good overall view of internet security and easy control of internet activity when multiple products are used. ...Worth persevering with to create a unified defense system. The ability to track user internet activity and desktop configurations provides a good basis for satisfying compliance requirements."

Keep Tabs on the Workplace Web
"Websense helps you enforce your organization's Web policies and keep employees surfing on the straight and narrow. If your enterprise has decided to go the road of Web filtering, then look no further. Websense Enterprise is well developed and thought out. It addresses the most important issues in Web filtering and gives you the flexibility to configure it to match your organization's Internet monitoring policies."

Content Filtering - Websense Enterprise 5.5
Employees often take advantage of their company's network to trade music and movie files, or chat on instant messenger. Websense Enterprise 5.5 gives organizations a weapon against this abuse and lost productivity by adding peer-to-peer blocking to its URL filtering tool... Websense Enterprise is a robust internet filtering solution ideal for large enterprises with complex filtering needs.

Editor's Choice
Websense Enterprise 5.1 is PC Magazine's Editors' Choice in the Web filtering category.

Websense Enterprise: More than your average web filter
"Websense goes way beyond basic filtering and offers many advanced features. One of those features is the use of custom policies to limit the viewing time by category with a built-in time quota system. All in all Websense was very easy to install and implement and did everything advertised. The extended feature set is well worth the yearly cost per user of roughly $15 per year."

SC Magazine Maximum Five-Star Rating
Websense Enterprise earned a maximum five-star rating in an SC Magazine product review, based on the software's superior feature set, ease of use, performance and other factors. SC Magazine, the leading information security magazine worldwide, praised the enterprise software, calling Websense Enterprise a "highly scalable and easily managed Internet access solution." Product reviews are conducted through West Coast Labs, globally recognized as a source for accurate measures on product effectiveness and performance.