The Hindu Business Line : Websense to offer new tool for plugging data leaks

Coimbatore, Dec. 21 Websense has launched a new Open Endpoint initiative that ensures easy integration of its data loss prevention solution — Websense Content Protection Suite — with other endpoint security offerings.

The company has also announced a new technology partnership with Lumension Security, a security management services firm, to give customers choice, flexibility and interoperability in their security deployments on endpoints and end-user devices such as laptops or printers. The DLP endpoint solution is scheduled for delivery in 2008.

“DLP usually starts on the network because that is the cost-effective way of getting the broadest coverage. However, in the long-term users will need both network and endpoint capabilities for a complete content protection solution,” said Mr Rich Mogull, Consultant and founder, Securosis. Unlike device control offerings that manage devices and ports, the Content Protection Suite endpoint focuses on controlling the data rather than the peripheral device or media.

Protecting content

By focusing on the data itself, Websense protects content across the broadest array of communication channels (such as Instant Messaging and Peer-2-Peer media), data storage and burning applications, USB and Firewire applications (such as printing and removable media).

The company provides all this in a single suite with unified policy management, incident management and reporting, for content protection across all enterprise channels and applications – on and off the network; for data in motion, in use, and at rest, the release said.

The company has claimed that its Content Protection Suite software is the only DLP solution to provide content and context-based policy enforcement such as managing who has access to what information, how that information can be used and where it can be sent, leveraging its knowledge of the Web to prevent data from being transmitted to malicious and/or unintended destinations.

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