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Websense Introduces New Messaging Security Solutions

(March 06, 2008)-- "Through our successful integration strategy, we've delivered innovation to the messaging security solutions we acquired from SurfControl in October 2007, helping businesses of all sizes." said Leo Cole, vice president of marketing, Websense on the release of Websense Hybrid Email Security solution.

"While customers that purchased these solutions from SurfControl will benefit from these enhancements, we're also pleased to offer these new hosted, on-premise and hybrid deployment messaging security solutions to the Websense installed base and prospects." added Cole.

Websense introduced new messaging security solutions, including a new hybrid hosted and on-premise e-mail security solution, that give businesses broader protection from e-mail security threats and expanded regulatory and policy compliance capabilities.

"Websense has delivered on its promise to customers and the industry by investing in messaging security products acquired from SurfControl," said Jay Wessel, vice president of technology for the Boston Celtics. "We chose Websense Email Security because of its phenomenal e-mail security protection and its granular policy enforcement capabilities that clearly outshine other solutions on the market. Websense provides essential protection to our organization."

The new Websense Hybrid Email Security solution offers organizations a layered hosted and on-premise messaging security system that provides inbound threat protection "in the cloud" with minimal administration and significant bandwidth savings, as well as deep content inspection of outbound e-mails with the granular control of on-premise software. Specifically, Websense Email Security software provides inspection of e-mail messages and attachments, ensuring that outbound e-mail does not contain non-compliant content, while Websense Hosted Email Security blocks spam and viruses at the Internet level, preventing these threats from reaching the network, consuming bandwidth and storage space, and impacting business operations.

"Websense is proving that technology innovation through acquisition can benefit existing and prospective customers," said Brian Burke, program director of IDC's Security Products service. "By offering a hybrid solution -- one that is becoming more attractive to businesses -- and integrating its products with technologies created internally and through two acquisitions, Websense is demonstrating to its customers it is committed to the messaging security market."

The new version of Websense Email Security (formerly known as SurfControl E-mail Filter) features a subset of compliance capabilities from Websense's data loss prevention technology. Websense Email Security features more than 100 content and compliance dictionaries, augmented with additional compliance dictionaries from Websense Data Security Suite, and its industry-leading data loss prevention technology. The new compliance dictionaries and rule policies offer e-mail protection for both the healthcare and financial industries and include new policies addressing state data privacy laws and Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards.

Websense continues to roll out enhancements to its on-demand messaging security solution, Websense Hosted Email Security (formerly known as SurfControl MailControl). Just weeks following the acquisition of SurfControl, customers began benefiting from the combined threat intelligence from the two companies. Websense Security Labs has further integrated the threat intelligence gathered from Websense Hosted Security solutions -- scanning more than 500 million e-mails per week for security threats -- with Websense ThreatSeeker technology, which scans more than 600 million Web sites per week searching for malicious code. The joint technologies provide deep visibility into the evolving external threat environment and unique protection to Websense messaging customers -- all in the cloud, before threats ever reach the corporate network and employee inboxes.

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