SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and a southern African distributor for Websense, today unveiled the latter's new software focused on solving today's top business information security concerns: preventing the unauthorised use or disclosure of confidential data and protecting users and data from external malicious threats.
The new software - Websense Content Protection Suite - protects organisations from data loss due to internal security threats, such as accidental or malicious disclosure of confidential information.
One new component of Websense Content Protection Suite, Websense Content Auditor software, discovers sensitive data in a network and identifies who is using the data and how it is being used.
The software can reveal gaps in an organisation's information security and business policies and uncover policy and process risks based on government regulations, industry standards and corporate governance guidelines.
Websense Content Enforcer implements compliance and risk management policies through user and content-based policy administration and reporting.
Websense also announced new Web reputation scoring capabilities in its patent-pending ThreatSeeker malicious content and categorisation technology. With its new capabilities, ThreatSeeker can discover and classify Web sites based on reputation scoring and suspicious characteristics. These high-risk sites are added to a threat "watch list", so organisations can block access to those sites, helping improve an organisation's security coverage against external Web-based threats. ThreatSeeker technology 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.
With the new Websense software and enhanced technologies, organisations have an improved ability to protect their confidential information, brand reputation and employees from both internal and external security threats.
"Banking is a highly regulated industry and as a credit union we have millions of pieces of confidential data that can not, under any circumstance, leave this organisations' network. Whether it is from the accidental exposure of member information or the malicious theft of confidential records, the consequences of a data breach are too costly to ignore," commented Glen Chrzas, vice-president of technology, Altura Credit Union.
"With Websense Content Protection Suite, we're able to monitor and filter all inbound and outbound network traffic, ensuring that our company, our members and our information are protected."
"The traditional 'sit and wait' approach to security - still practised by the traditional security vendors - is no longer able to keep pace with today's internal and external threats," added Gene Hodges, CEO, Websense. "Organisations have learned how to protect themselves from e-mail-borne viruses. Protecting information has become today's biggest challenge. With the introduction of this new class of security protection, Websense is helping customers protect their intellectual crown jewels."
The new Websense Content Protection Suite is based on technology acquired from PortAuthority Technologies in January. Websense Content Protection Suite prevents leaks on outbound and internal data communication channels, endpoints and laptops and portable media devices, allowing organizations to control how sensitive data can travel within and leave their organisation and under what circumstances.
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za.
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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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