The report is based on extensive research by Websense Security Labs™ and their analysis of data from the ThreatSeeker® Network and ACE (the Advanced Classification Engine). The report includes valuable insights into the trends and challenges in the threat environment, and provides practical advice for security professionals.
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More than half of the organizations recently surveyed report that unsecure mobile devices have caused data loss. Websense now makes it safe to go mobile by adding Websense® TRITON™ Mobile Security to the highly effective TRITON suite of offerings.
Websense TRITON Mobile Security combines four key elements. First, content aware data security features prevent confidential data loss on iPads, iPhones, Android, and other mobile devices. Second, it provides real-time web and application security, policy controls, and reporting for added visibility into the mobile risk profile. Third, it prevents malicious app downloads and blocks mobile malware. And finally, it includes mobile device management (MDM).
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A new "Global Study on Mobility Risks" reveals that corporate mobile devices and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon are rapidly circumventing enterprise security and policies in Canada. Seventy-one percent of more than 400 respondents in Canada agree that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is important to achieving business objectives. But 72 percent also believe that these devices put their organizations at risk—and only half the organizations surveyed have the necessary security controls to address the risk.
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CIOs don't need to be convinced about Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Compliance, financial implications, and brand reputation are all factors that drive this need. The real problem is that people are afraid of failure and wasting time, money, and resources. They've heard about the operational nightmares, the complexity and failed deployments over the last several years. In addition, RSA and Symantec both had data stolen publically, implying the integrity of the solutions' value is uncertain.
Watch the recording from this interactive session and receive valuable insight on how security works and learn the secret of understanding and communicating risk. Watch and learn practical and measurable framework for managing risk to information assets using DLP.
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New SSL Manager CVE Guide Published
The Websense® Web Security Gateway proxy component – Content Gateway – includes a feature called SSL Manager. SSL Manager oversees SSL and TLS (HTTPS) connections, decryption, analysis of content, and re-encryption.
This new document describes the most effective use of the Certificate Verification Engine, a sub-component of SSL Manager. The Certificate Verification Engine ensures that only those connections that comply with your organization's IT security requirements for certificate verification are allowed.
This guide includes:
For general information on SSL Manager, see Working with Encrypted Data in the Websense Technical Library. (Several articles follow in a sequence. Use the rightpointing navigation button at the top and bottom of each article.)
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Websense has announced a strategic expansion of the company's global footprint in offering cloud-based Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to Latin American companies. This new facility supports cloud and hybrid web security delivering protection within the region.
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Survey Results: Mobile Security is the Buzz—But How Big is the Problem?
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Say NO to Government Censorship of the Internet in Pakistan
A Three-peat for Websense at the 2012 SC Magazine Awards
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Large enterprises and service providers urgently need a scalable way to stop advanced malware and data theft that is easily evading first-generation web proxies. Content security leader Websense has the answer—the new Websense® X10G model. It is a highly available and scalable system with critical real-time data-aware contextual defenses, which are applied to all inbound and outbound requests, and that defend against advanced malware and prevent intellectual property theft.
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Cloudy, Mobile, Social
Did you know...
- 60% of IT Managers are using the cloud
- Only 33% of cloud vendors promise data will remain in a preferred location
- 80% of companies allow personal mobile devices to access the network
- IT Managers equally fear losing data and actual mobile devices
- Social media: IT worried about productivity, security, and legal issues
- IT Managers equally worried about cybercriminals and malicious employees stealing data
- Only half of IT Managers think employees should have the right to safe internet access and data protection
- Employees are more passionate about the right to have safe internet access and data protection than IT managers
Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union believes that access to the social Web is a critical aspect of everyday business. It also believes that protecting employee and client information is essential. Listen to Philip Romero, senior security architect at Addison Avenue, as he shares how the company is using Websense® Data Security Suite and Websense Web Security Gateway to prevent the loss of essential data and increase the productivity of its employees. The organization is also finding the unified console a "productivity enabler" by helping to reduce the response time needed to investigate activities and by reducing the number of interfaces it must go through.
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With traditional IT infrastructure moving to the Web and businesses relying more on Web-based tools, today's threats are also converging there with more advanced, blended techniques designed to steal data. Websense leads the market in its abilities to address these modern threats, according to this report by technology research firm, The Radicati Group. Of the 11 Web security vendors evaluated, Radicati placed Websense as the clear leader in the "Top Players" quadrant. Register to access a complimentary copy of the Radicati, Inc. report, "Corporate Web Security Market Quadrant 2012."
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