Information Leak Prevention
With increasing frequency and severity, more and more organizations are becoming victims of high-profile leaks that started with a simple click of the SEND button or an innocuous Instant Messaging conversation. What are often unintentional leaks are compounded by the efforts of malicious activity from both insiders and externals whose goal it is to use the information for illicit purposes.
"Through 2010 we expect 80-90% of sensitive information leaks to be unintentional, accidental, or the result of poor business processes"
- Paul Proctor, Research Vice President, Gartner
Whether unintentional, intentional or malicious in nature, the ramifications of information leaks can be significant. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average cost per customer record lost is approximately $182. These costs are broken out into direct, indirect, and opportunity costs. In total, Network World estimates the aggregate cost of a breach to average $5 million.
For many organizations, losing customer information isn't the only risk; intellectual property, merger and acquisition plans, product launch dates, distribution strategies, and other confidential information pertinent to the day-to-day business must remain secure in order to sustain a competitive advantage. When there is a leak, organization face not only daunting monetary costs, but also a loss to brand and reputation, regulatory penalties, and setbacks to business operations and continuity. To mitigate the risk of information leaks, organizations must employ an information-centric solution with proven coverage, simplicity, and protection.
Websense Content Protection Suite is the leading Information Leak Prevention (ILP) solution designed to protect customer information, intellectual property, and enforce and report on regulatory compliance.
Information Leak Statistics* |
Types of Data Leaked |
Data Leak Vectors |
 |
 |
*Based on publicly reported leaks.
Web Security
The Security Landscape Continues To Evolve
The use of the web to launch attacks, and the variety of methods used to launch attacks has increased in recent years. The number of malicious websites and the amount of malicious code being released with criminal intent (crimeware) has continued to rise. The phishing landscape has also changed considerably, with significant differences in types of targets and attacks. Browser and operating system exploits are being used more frequently, including zero-day exploits used for spyware, crimeware, phishing, and keylogger installations.
New Threats Demand New Technologies
Perimeter defenses, like firewalls, are designed to prevent web security threats from outside, but perimeter defenses can be bypassed. Endpoint defenses, like antivirus software on the desktop, are designed to prevent threats from the inside, but antivirus software can only protect against threats when the threat is already known. Clearly, organizations need a more comprehensive, defense-in-depth solution.
To ensure the needed protection, organizations need to incorporate content-level protection into their overall security strategies. A critical component of any defense-in-depth strategy, Websense provides an additional layer of protection against web security and endpoint security threats.
Web Security - integrated web security that protects organizations from emerging and existing web-based threats.
Web Filtering
WEBSENSE IS THE GLOBAL LEADER IN WEB FILTERING
Web filtering can help organizations balance employees’ personal internet needs while decreasing the risk of legal liability, maintaining adequate network bandwidth levels, and increasing productivity.
Web Filtering and Legal Liability
Internet use can expose organizations to legal liability when employees engage in illegal or inappropriate activities. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies that prevent employees from engaging in inappropriate behavior.
Web Filtering and Bandwidth Consumption
Organizations can experience decreased network capacity or system downtime when too many employees use bandwidth-intensive applications, like streaming media or internet radio. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies that ensure available bandwidth for business-critical applications.
Web Filtering and Productivity
With the entire world available at their fingertips through the internet, employees can be distracted by non-work related or unproductive activities. Web filtering software can help organizations define and enforce internet use policies suited to their culture and business processes.
Websense Enterprise is the world’s leading web filtering solution. Websense Enterprise protects organizations from the productivity, legal liability, and bandwidth risks of the internet, combining powerful flexibility with rich functionality:
- Provides comprehensive and accurate web filtering supported by the Websense Master Database.
- Allows IT administrators to set custom policies to manage employee internet, network, and application use, balancing work-related and personal internet use.
- Minimizes the effort required to set, enforce, and maintain internet use policies through its easy-to-use central management console.
- Allows for customization of report templates, block pages, and webpage category names in Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Learn more about Websense Enterprise.
Featured options:
Product areas:
| Implementation |
 |
Acenseo professional services provide superior, qualified design, implmentation, training and support. |
| LIMITED PROMOTIONAL OFFER |
|
Take the Websense Challenge. Take a free 30-day evaluation of Websense Security and discover the real threats of the internet to your network. |
Services
Acenseo's services include extensive proof of concept facilities on our client sites, or at one of our demonstration labs (available either online or demo lab attended). We also provide detailed design, installation, consultancy services, accredited and tailored training, full audits, penetration tests / vulnerability assessments and after sales support services up to 24 x 7 on or offsite, from our vastly experienced technical teams and Consultants.
Managed Security Solution
We also provide a comprehensive range of partial through to fully managed security services to smb - enterprise businesses who simply require the very best technology, support, ongoing maintenance and reporting but do not have the time and skills required to fully achieve this.
Sign up to our online demonstration labs or call now on 01189-790000 to arrange your an onsite demonstration.
For more information on acenseo and how we can help you, email info@acenseo.com.
