Websense Positioned as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- An increasingly mobile workforce, more social networks, and advanced attacks have made it critical for organizations to quickly deploy effective data theft prevention. That's why Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) developed the TRITON™ solution, which includes the Websense® Data Security Suite. And Gartner, Inc. has positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released "Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention" (i) and published a Websense evaluation in the "Critical Capabilities for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention" report. (ii)  

"We quickly and easily reduced our risk of data theft and assured compliance with Websense," said Larry Whiteside Jr., CISO for Visiting Nurse Service of N.Y., a Websense TRITON customer. "Instead of spending valuable staff time on painfully tedious data discovery on minor data, Websense helped me solve the real problem—protecting our most important information from being stolen. We started with the most sensitive data and moved out from there. When I evaluated DLP, I wanted a product that reduced risk from day one, while being effective and easy to roll out and manage. Websense delivered. I talked to my peers who chose other DLP products and I've heard all of their war stories and complaints. It's clear to me that I made the right choice."

Vendors in the Magic Quadrant are evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. The Critical Capabilities report assessed vendors according to nine critical capabilities and five use cases. Gartner, Inc. evaluated the Websense Data Security Suite for both reports.

"We believe our leaders quadrant position in the current Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention is more evidence of our unique data theft prevention technology," said John McCormack, president, Websense. "In today's difficult security environment, you can't afford to deploy simple DLP capabilities. In addition, traditional defenses of antivirus and firewalls are not stopping aggressive cybercriminals. Organizations need a new security architecture that keeps new and unknown threats out and their intellectual property within their environment."

According to a recent Juniper Networks® sponsored Ponemon Institute survey, respondents said that external agents (55 percent) and insiders (49 percent) are most often behind security breaches. Fifty-two percent of respondents said "the breaches were caused by insider abuse, 48 percent say it was malicious software download, and 43 percent say it was malware from a website." The survey continued by citing "employee mobile devices and laptops are seen as the most likely endpoint from which serious cyber attacks are unleashed against a company."(iii) Websense addresses these threats with complementary email, web, and data security that prevents malware while it discovers, monitors, and protects data at rest, in use, and in motion—including data in the cloud.

Ideal for large or small enterprises, Websense Data Security Suite administrators use it to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX, EU Directive 95/46/EC, and PIPA. With more than 1,100 built-in templates and rules powered by Websense PreciseID™ natural language processing, and support for hundreds of unique file types, Data Security Suite identifies confidential data traversing the network, servers, databases, laptops, and other locations. Organizations can stop, encrypt, or quarantine transmission of sensitive data and audit, remove/tombstone, or encrypt data discovered in non-secure locations.

"Preventing employees from inadvertently leaking information is not the biggest challenge IT is facing today," said McCormack. "The focus needs to be on data theft, which can't be prevented by ineffective, outdated, and piecemeal approaches. Our TRITON data theft technology shares intelligence from the web and email channels to give real-time protection against the latest data theft behavior. That's the most pressing concern of today's businesses, especially as advanced attack techniques move down the malware adoption lifecycle, bringing incredibly effective techniques into the hands of shockingly effective cybercriminals."

Websense is also positioned as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway."(iv) Websense data theft prevention solutions are tightly integrated into Websense's Web Security Gateway and Email Security Gateway, which are parts of the Websense TRITON solution. This powerful integration provides Websense with security visibility and context that competitors can't match—including data theft and loss alerts that provide details about the user, manager, organization, and communication method. Other solutions provide only IP addresses for source and destination, which is a burden to administrators who then have to map the addresses to individual users for each alert. This additional time and management increases cost and slows down response.

The Websense TRITON solution offers complementary web, email, and data loss prevention (DLP) security. They can be bundled together from day one or purchased as standalone packages and integrated later. The TRITON solution is available in enterprise-grade appliances, as cloud-based services (SaaS), and as powerful and efficient hybrids of on-premise and SaaS elements working together.

To download the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention and the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention reports, visit http://www.websense.com/content/home.aspx?external=gartner-dlp. For more information about Websense Data Security Suite, please visit http://www.websense.com/content/data-security-solutions.aspx.

(i) Source: Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention" by Eric Ouellet and Rob McMillan, August 10, 2011.

(ii) Source: Gartner, Inc. "Critical Capabilities for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention" by Rob McMillan and Eric Ouellet, August 10, 2011.

(iii) Source: Ponemon Institute "Perceptions about Network Security" by Ponemon Institute, June 2011.  

(iv) Source: Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway" by Lawrence Orans and Peter Firstbrook, May 25, 2011.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Websense, Inc.

Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in unified web security, email security, and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, delivers the best content security for modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership to tens of thousands of enterprise, mid-market and small organizations around the world. Distributed through a global network of channel partners and delivered as software, appliance and Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), Websense content security solutions help organizations leverage web 2.0 and cloud communication, collaboration, and social media while protecting from advanced persistent threats, preventing the loss of confidential information and enforcing internet use and security policies. Websense is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.websense.com.

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