Websense Email Security
Websense Email Security (formerly SurfControl Email Filter) software provides comprehensive content filtering for continuous protection against inbound and outbound email threats including spam, viruses, blended threats, data loss, and regulatory violations. Industry-leading threat detection technology and expertise are complemented by simple-to-use monitoring and reporting to provide a high level of control and visibility. Companies can defend against the full spectrum of email threats to reduce business risk, enable business compliance, and ensure business continuity.
Websense Case Study
SurfControl does everything we asked for... we have instant management and the reporting is excellent... we needed flexibility, security and reliability - and we got it!
Bill Burles
Director of ICT
Kent College Pembury
Integrated Threat Protection
Websense Email Security threat analysis encompasses multiple layers of intelligence that provide the best protection from today's complex threats such as, spam, viruses, malware, phishing, and harmful URLs. Websense Email Security protects with layers that are all fully automated and deliver
continuous protection-while you focus on more strategic initiatives.
- Antivirus protection. Websense Email Security is powered by multiple antivirus technologies that combine zero-hour antivirus scanning with antivirus engines to give you extensive and integrated threat protection-all from one vendor.
- Powerful antispam protection. With proven effectiveness validated by West Coast Labs, Websense Email Security uses antispam protection that leverages the Websense in-depth knowledge of Web and email-borne attacks. This breadth of security research and intelligence uniquely provides Websense Email Security customers with a solution that protects from blended threats at the source.
- Integrated reputation analysis. Websense Email Security, which integrates with reputation services in the Websense hosted infrastructure, provides deep connection-level management on incoming email, greatly reducing server loads and ensuring comprehensive zero-hour protection.
- Easy to install and administer. Websense Email Security provides automatic database updates, flexible policy setting, and market-leading reporting, to create best-in-class protection with exceptional visibility and control.
Outbound Compliance and Data Loss Prevention
Websense Email Security provides powerful and flexible policy controls to help you achieve better corporate governance and compliance. It offers in-depth data inspection combined with more than 105 content and compliance dictionaries pre-packaged in 12 languages.
- Compliance dictionaries and rules. Out-of-the-box HIPAA and GLBA rules make it easy to meet compliance requirements with the same technology you trust to block email threats. Additionally, the Websense configurable dictionaries and lexical analyses allow you to define what is proprietary and prevent sensitive data loss.
- In-depth data inspection. Websense Email Security can identify content from hundreds of attachment file types-up to 25 layers deep-regardless of whether that content is embedded or compressed.
- Simple end-user controls. Websense Email Security provides configurable end-user email management for outbound messages, which provides the flexibility for second checks where desired.
- Visibility through reporting. Gain an accurate picture of your organisation's email threats and compliance breaches to implement relevant, data-driven policies.
- Information at your fingertips. The intuitive and easy-to-access Web-based interface lets you see the exact source of the email and identifies which policies are triggered.
- Versatile reporting. More than 40 pre-defined, customisable reports plus the Websense Threat Dashboard and Drill-Down Manager show key email indicators. Websense Email Security reports give you the exact data you need to pin-point and take action on internal and external threats.
- Secure distribution. You can delegate and schedule reporting access to any department within your organisation-including compliance and human resources. Websense Email Security gives the right kind of visibility to the right individuals.
