Facebook just rolled out increased protections to 800 million users… using Websense® security technology. Tech Crunch recently published an article featuring Facebook’s decision to partner with Websense in order to protect its users from malicious content. Now, when a Facebook user clicks on a link, Facebook will run the link through Websense to determine whether or not it’s free of malware. If the link is unsafe, a message warns the user that the link is potentially harmful and suggests returning to the previous page.
Tech Crunch highlights how this process is powered by Websense’s ThreatSeeker®Cloud Technology, which is a classification and malware identification platform. Using Websense’s proprietary technology known as the “Advanced Classification Engine,” or ACE, Websense is capable of analyzing threats in real-time in order to block known malware sites in addition to ones that the system has never seen before.
This is one of the many things Facebook is doing to keep itself free of malware, but call us prejudiced, we say its one of the smartest things they’ve done.
Read more about the partnership from CTO Dan Hubbard in his blog post here.
Read the press release announcing the partnership here.
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