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In a recent study that compared the effectiveness of internet filtering software, Websense outperformed competing products from Secure Computing and Surf Control, scoring highest overall. VeriTest, a testing service of Lionbridge, conducted the study to compare enterprise-class internet content filtering applications.
The study focused on internet filtering, web security accuracy, effectiveness, and performance. Three tests were performed: blocking effectiveness testing, specific malicious and spyware URL testing, and non-HTTP protocol testing.
Lionbridge’s VeriTest team tested more than 400,000 URLs against internet filtering software products for accuracy and blocking effectiveness. Overall, Websense scored 92 points, while the products from SurfControl and Secure Computing scored 65 and 59 points, respectively. Websense outperformed both products in terms of the number of unique categories identified. Websense identified 85 categories, whereas SurfControl identified 47, and Secure Computing identified 69. Websense also scored highest in the malicious and URL spyware testing, winning in all four categories: spyware URLs, URLs used in spyware backchannel communications, URLs used in deploying keyloggers and Trojan horses, and URLs used in phishing.
Websense dominated the competing products in the non-HTTP protocol filtering area: “Websense was the only product in its ‘out-of-the-box’ configuration to provide easy blocking of non-HTTP related protocols, such as those used by instant messaging (IM) applications, peer-to-peer (P2P), anonymous browsing utilities, and streaming media. Websense demonstrated the ability to block these applications from communicating within the test network in almost every scenario tested,” the study stated.
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