The second half of 2009 saw malware authors focus their efforts to ensure they drove victims straight to them.  In contrast to the first half of the year where mass injection attacks like Gumblar, Beladen and Nine Ball promoted a sharp rise in the number of malicious Web sites, Websense Security Labs observed a slight (3.3 percent) decline in the growth of the number of Web sites compromised. Instead, attackers replaced their traditional scattergun approach with focused efforts on Web 2.0 properties with higher traffic and multiple pages. Read more>

Although the security landscape is constantly in a state of flux, The San Diego Business Journal explains how Websense provides the necessary protection for businesses to remain secure in such a fluid environment. 

Credit Union Journal explores the issue of accidental data loss in the financial services industry. Many credit unions are more concerned about employees accidentally emailing non-public information than maliciously stealing it. In this article, Websense customer Glen Chrzas, Vice President of Technology at Altura Credit Union explains how Websense Data Security Suite helps the organization to digitally fingerprint and protect company-confidential information.

"Every night, we fingerprint our sensitive member data off our core system." The data is stored in a system that scans outgoing e-mails and attachments for sensitive data. If NPI is found, Websense stops the e-mail from being sent, and the e-mail is reviewed.

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Websense is pleased to announce the winners of its 2010 Websense® All-Star Partner Awards. Websense presented the awards to its top-performing channel partners during the company's 2010 North American Channel Partners Conference, which took place January 20 - 22 in Coronado, Calif.  Read the full blog post to view photos of the winners by clicking here.