WEBSENSE today announced that Salmat, an Australian company that engages consumers through one-to-one communications, has deployed the Websense Web Security Gateway providing the organisation with real-time security protection from today’s dynamic Web 2.0 threats.
The company required a flexible solution to protect the organisation against increasingly dynamic and virulent Web-based security threats.
Roy Cushan, IT Infrastructure Manager, Salmat, said that after a review of various solutions, the company found Websense to be the best fit. He said the Websense products provided real-time scanning capabilities, superior ability to discover threats designed to bypass anti-virus engines and robust, centralised reporting across the company’s network of dispersed offices.
According to the company, the Websense Web Security Gateway is able to solve growing challenges brought on by Web 2.0 technologies including user-generated content, mashups, interactive networking sites and Web applications.
Providing inline inspection of Web traffic, SSL traffic, Web 2.0 applications, and more than 100 network protocols, the Salmat solution classifies new and dynamic content in real-time, determining immediately whether the Web site and its content are safe.
The software achieves this by categorising actual content on Web sites providing a granular approach that allows users to access Web sites but blocking portions of sites deemed inappropriate or a security risk.
The company said the software was built on more than 10 years of Web security research and powered by the Websense ThreatSeeker Network , which discovers and analyses billions of disparate pieces of internet content every day to rapidly identify newly-infected sites, malware and attack methods.
Cushan said that the Websense software will provide the company with essential real-time protection from malicious content, allowing employees and clients to use Web 2.0 tools to drive business growth without concern about security or productivity drains.
He added the software will also allow the company’s IT team to reap the time savings benefits of the Websense single report manager across multiple locations, unlike other solutions which required a console at each location and required separate management and administration.
Salmat will be freer to concentrate on having IT add value to the business rather than managing security consoles, while saving on bandwidth consumption, according to Cushan.