Websense Positioned As Leader In Magic Quadrant For Secure Web Gateway

Research firm Gartner has placed Websense as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for ‘Secure Web Gateway’ as well as ‘Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention’.

Advanced threats and data theft combined with more diverse end points, mobility, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are increasing the necessity of secure web gateways and cloud security services. To understand these security challenges, businesses worldwide turn to industry analyst firms for guidance on top web security technology and protection.

“Concern over cyber security has reached the boardroom level and it will only continue to get worse,” said John McCormack, President, Websense. “I have spoken with hundreds of executives and relying on firewalls, anti-virus, and simple URL filtering alone isn’t cutting it against today’s dynamic attacks. Criminal motives have evolved from simply stealing organisations’ credit card numbers to targeting the most important intellectual property. Companies need to implement a data-centric solution. We created the Websense TRITON solution, which includes the Websense Web Security Gateway, to stop more threats than any other company by integrating top threat intelligence and defenses with context-aware data loss prevention.”

Vendors in the Magic Quadrant are evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner, Inc. evaluated the Websense Web Security Gateway, which uniquely features embedded enterprise-class data loss prevention (DLP) for web communications and real-time security analysis of web content. Powered by the Websense Advanced Classification Engine (ACE), Websense stands out from the competition with multiple inline malware defenses. It uses advanced analytics and composite risk scoring to detect advanced malicious attacks that evade legacy security solutions.

In its recent 2012 Threat Report, Websense Security Labs identified the six stages of advanced threats, which often evade legacy security products of the past including anti-virus, so-called next generation firewalls, and outdated URL blacklists. It is against this landscape that Websense developed the Websense Web Security Gateway.

The Websense Web Security Gateway is part of the revolutionary Websense TRITON solution. It unifies all the key components of threat defense and data theft prevention into a cohesive content security system. The TRITON solution brings together web security, email security, mobile security, and DLP defenses with unified security intelligence and a unified management console. TRITON solutions can be deployed on enterprise-grade appliances, as cloud-based services, and as powerful and efficient hybrids of on-premise and cloud elements working together.