RIVERBED Technology and Websense today announced a partnership to offer enterprise customers Websense's Web security solutions combined with WAN optimisation from Riverbed.
The Websense Web Security solution will be offered on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP).
Both companies anticipate that Websense will offer its Hosted Web Security with Riverbed solutions in a hybrid mode at a later date to provide organizations with up-to-date security solutions.
According to the company, by installing Websense Web Security software organizations can consolidate WAN and Web security deployments, making their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive, and more secure.
Customers can deploy these virtualized appliances, with services such as Websense Web Security, to further simplify IT infrastructure at branch and remote offices to reduce costs and operational overhead.
Websense Senior Director Ray Kruck said the Websense and Riverbed integrated solution offers true best-of-breed and best-in-class security and application acceleration, saying the joint offering is a powerful security solution architecture that protects essential information within Web-based applications and optimises its access and delivery across the distributed enterprise.