WebBlazer
WebBlazer is a critical component of an effective defense-in-depth strategy, the solution combines the industry's most comprehensive security and compliance URL filtering offerings, one of the most trusted, scalable, and high performing web proxy and cache technologies, and robust outbound web traffic security on high performance dedicated network security hardware.
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The WebBlazer web threat management solution defends organizations from today's most complex security threats in several ways. First, it prevents access to infection by blocking access to websites with spyware, bots, keyloggers, and other malware. Over 450 million websites per week are mined for malicious threats. More than 3,000 real-time security updates were published in the second quarter of 2006 alone, immediately protecting customers from tens of thousands of newly discovered malicious websites and applications. Second, it stops malicious traffic by detecting and preventing web-based malware on the network using advanced protocol and traffic control functionality. Finally, it controls compliance risks by managing over 80 protocols in real-time including potential compliance and security risks like IM (including IM attachments), P2P, and web proxy avoidance.
Three great reasons to use the WebBlazer solution from Websense and Crossbeam Systems:
- Websense "squashed" spyware in the Network World 2005 anti-spyware test
- Websense Web Security SuiteTM is certified for both Web Filtering and Anti-Spyware Installed categories by West Coast Labs
- Crossbeam Systems leads the high-end UTM market, according to IDC
High-Performance Web Proxy, Caching, and Networking
The joint solution provides your organization with the capacity to scale reliably as your network grows, and to adapt as traffic loads change. The integrated web proxy and cache improves web performance and offloads web traffic from other network gateways while also monitoring bandwidth-consuming applications and protocols. WebBlazer's proxy and cache technology is utilized by some of the world's largest enterprises, carriers, and ISPs. The solution reduces bandwidth costs and accelerates web content delivery, meeting the demands of today's most heavily trafficked networks. Combining this web proxy and cache with a true secure networking device increases performance, while easing deployment within the network and providing more reliable solution availability.
WebBlazer provides full routing capability, including RIP v1 and v2, OSPF, and multi-link trunking for scalability and link redundancy. WebBlazer meets and exceeds high availability requirements through virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP), which is the industry standard for eliminating the single point of failure inherent in the static default routed environment, a dedicated high availability (HA) interface for session state synchronization, and built in redundancy with dual power supplies, CPU, and hard drives.
The WebBlazer solution provides content filtering and caching on a switch with intelligent fail-open capabilities and bypass ports for transparent in-line deployments without fear of a single point of failure. Traditionally, this would require extra equipment and add complexity to your network. With WebBlazer, all traffic can be scanned without touching end-users' browsers or deploying extra switches. Failures, whether power, application, or downstream devices, will never stop traffic flow, unless configured to do so. In addition, the proxy capabilities improve network performance by accelerating web content, offloading web traffic from network gateways, and monitoring bandwidth consuming applications and protocols.
Ease of Management
The WebBlazer solution is designed for easy and flexible administration. It integrates seamlessly with directory services for user and group-based policy confi guration and management, reducing administrative complexities. This solution gives you the power to manage websites and protocols with simple point and click controls, and unlike other proxy-based security solutions, which require complex scripting and manual updating, provides automated real-time security updates to increase security readiness and streamline administration. Crossbeam System's SecureShore NMS (Network Management System) provides full web-based, enterprise-class device management capabilities including network-level device management, flash drive support for back-up/restores/upgrades and SSL/SSH remote management access.
WebBlazer's Intuitive Management Console
