SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the sole Sub-Sahara African distributor for Websense, today announced that leading analyst firm Gartner has named Websense the worldwide market share leader in the URL (Web) filtering market based on 2005 revenue.
According to the July 2006 Gartner Dataquest report, "Market Share: URL Filtering, Worldwide, 2005" by Nicole S Latimer-Livingston, Websense not only retained its leadership position over other market players in 2005, but continued to widen the gap; growing its market share to nearly 50% (49.6%).
Websense's share of the market was more than 25% larger than its closest competitor. The total URL (Web) filtering market grew 23.6% to nearly $300 million in 2005, according to the Gartner report. Websense's total revenue for 2005 was $148.6 million, an increase of 33% from 2004.
"Websense provides a critical layer of Web security that closes gaps left by traditional security solutions by proactively searching for and blocking new and emerging threats, delivering the most powerful protection to more than 24 million people worldwide," added Leo Cole, vice-president of marketing, Websense.
"We believe the Gartner report indicates Websense is not giving up any of its hard-earned market share; instead, the company is driving the market forward and delivering unique security solutions to resellers and their clients."
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; 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 distributor and solution provider of perimeter, network and endpoint information security solutions. SecureData's information security solutions include best-of-breed secure content and threat management solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading information security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for and Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based Application Security, eEye, Rocket software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense.
For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment.
For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za
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