Company Previews DLP Endpoint Solution and Announces Technology Partnerships to Bolster Customer Choice and Flexibility

Websense, Inc. today unveiled a preview of its data loss prevention (DLP) solution for the endpoint and announced a new technology partnership designed to give customers more choice, flexibility and interoperability in their security deployments on endpoints - end-user devices such as laptops that connect to the corporate network.

Websense is helping customers bolster content protection by launching an Open Endpoint Initiative that ensures easy integration of its industry-leading DLP solution - Websense Content Protection Suite - with other endpoint security offerings. As part of the initiative, Websense announced a new partnership with Lumension Security, a leader in security management, providing unified protection and control over enterprise endpoints. Additionally, Websense is extending the capabilities of the network-based Content Protection Suite to the endpoint and today unveiled a preview of the upcoming product, which is the only endpoint DLP product to feature local discovery and content-based protection.

Since entering into the DLP market with the acquisition of PortAuthority in January 2007, Websense has continued to advance DLP technology - first by combining content and user awareness with Web intelligence, and now with the upcoming Content Protection Suite endpoint solution. As a result of these technology advancements and the Open Endpoint Initiative, Websense will become the only DLP provider giving customers the flexibility to deploy a single, comprehensive DLP solution from the network to the endpoint, while also having the ability to easily integrate it with other security solutions if desired.

"DLP usually starts on the network because that's the most cost-effective way to get the broadest coverage," said Rich Mogull, independent consultant and founder, Securosis. "However, in the long-term, users will need both network and endpoint capabilities for a complete content protection solution. Adding an endpoint agent to a DLP solution not only gives the ability to discover stored content, but to potentially protect systems no longer on the network or even protect data as it's being actively used."*

Websense first led the charge at the endpoint by partnering with device control vendors in 2006 to combine Websense's content awareness, control and incident management with device and port control capabilities through an integrated solution that is currently available. Websense's commitment to its open architecture and technology partner ecosystem is furthered by the new partnership with Lumension to address data loss at the endpoint through removable media and storage. The integration enables joint customers to leverage Websense content awareness and data identification for preventing the misuse of data - such as blocking employees from copying sensitive data to media devices like USB drives or DVDs. It will also include full reporting and incident management across both product lines.

"Combining our industry leading Sanctuary Device Control and Websense data awareness will provide joint customers significant value by enabling them to create policies protecting their sensitive data by limiting the ability to copy it to removable media devices and storage," said Mike Wittig, president and CTO, Lumension. "Websense's open framework coupled with Lumension's policy enforcement truly empowers customers with the choice and flexibility to extend their existing endpoint security investments and better protect the lifeblood of their business - content."