Websense Upgrades Cloud Security Service

February 13, 2009: Security specialist Websense has rolled out new enhancements to its cloud-based security services, promising better protection from emerging Web 2.0 and converged threats.

The company says its on-demand security services, Websense Hosted Email Security and Websense Hosted Web Security, now feature improved protection thanks to heightened Web threat intelligence from Websense’s latest URL database and ThreatSeeker Network.

Websense says that when an attacker attempts to send a malicious link or spam through email, its histed solution cleans the message in the cloud before it reaches its destination, and if something does manage to slip though and a user attempts to click on a malicious link in an email or other application, Websense prevents the user from accessing the malicious Web site.

"Organisations are faced with a deluge of blended threats, as well as Web 2.0 sites used by criminals to spread spam and malicious code and drive phishing and fraud scams," says Devin Redmond, vice president product management for Websense. "Delivered over the Internet, Websense Hosted Security services tackle these emerging threats in the cloud, ensuring spam and malicious content never reach the customer's network, keeping their employees and essential information secure."

Thanks to the increased threat intelligence from its ThreatSeeker Network, Websense claims it has raised its spam detection service level agreement (SLA) to 99 percent for Websense Hosted Email Security, up from 97 percent.

It says that by eliminating spam in the cloud, organisations gain tremendous cost savings on hardware, bandwidth, storage, support and administration time. Comment on this story