SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and a southern African distributor for Websense, today announced that the latter has received two patents for the proprietary technologies that provide Web site and application classification intelligence to Websense software.
These technologies help protect organisations from threats to information security and employee productivity due to unmanaged use of the Web or unauthorised applications.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Websense:
* Patent #7,194,464, entitled "System and Method for Adapting an Internet Filter", which ensures that new or not yet classified Web sites visited by employees are categorised and added to the Websense master database
* Patent #7,185,015, entitled "System and Method of Monitoring and controlling Application Files," which ensures that new or not yet classified applications and executables launched by employees are categorised and added to the Websense master database.
By leveraging the technologies protected by these patents, Websense software is being constantly updated with Internet and employee usage intelligence to provide unmatched protection to customers.
These two recently patented technologies are two components of the Websense ThreatSeeker technology, publicly unveiled in October 2006. In addition to the more than 100 proprietary processes and systems used by ThreatSeeker to decipher emerging and complex threats, these technologies provide an important additional layer of feedback intelligence from customers to enhance their Web security.
"These patents represent important and cutting-edge innovation from Websense engineering," commented John McCormack, senior vice-president of product development, Websense. "These two recently patented technologies have proven value in providing our customers with advanced security filtering, and they are important milestones in delivering capabilities that help fill the gaps left by traditional security solutions."
Websense ThreatSeeker delivers pre-emptive protection from Web-based security threats - threats typically missed or too costly to prevent using security technologies such as anti-virus and intrusion prevention systems. Unlike these approaches, Websense seeks out threats on the Internet before customers are compromised and protects customers before patches and signatures are created. As a result, organisations are automatically protected from the latest threats within minutes, without massive costs and administrative burdens and without having to guess what attacks may look like in the future.
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za.
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Websense, Inc, is the global leader in web filtering, and a premier provider of web security software, and is preferred by leading Fortune 500, and FTSE 100 customers, as well as government agencies and educational institutions. Websense products increase employee Internet productivity and secure organisations from emerging Internet threats by providing a proactive web security component that complements traditional security solutions. Only Websense delivers flexible, integrated policy enforcement at the Internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop. Websense provides solutions trusted by more than 24 000 customers and 19.8 million employees worldwide.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier value-added distributor and solution provider of perimeter, network and endpoint information security and risk management solutions. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for AirDefense, Application Security, Check Point Software Technologies, Cibecs, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard Software, TippingPoint Technologies and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed IT company focused on solutions and services that address the issues of information risk management. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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