Security for Every Sector
Web, data, and messaging security for organizations ranging from 25 users to large, distributed networks of 100,000 users or more; and sectors from business, to education, to healthcare.
Websense works even in the most stringently regulated verticals to provide customers with visibility and control across communication channels and protocols.
Vertical specific uses for Websense leading solutions include:
K-12 Education – Helping administrators keep pace with today's tech savvy students
Higher Education – Offering security from Web 2.0 threats while controlling costs and protecting network performance
Education: Higher
Balance Academic Freedom with Security
In support of the First Amendment, students, staff, and faculty need to be able to exchange information safely, both inside and outside of the university’s network and over email, IM, or the Web. Websense is used by thousands of universities and research facilities worldwide to protect against malicious threats, inappropriate email or Web usage, and to secure student, faculty, alumni, and other confidential information against theft or unauthorized use.
Challenges Facing Higher Education
As more and more schools and universities use the Internet as part of their core curriculum, educational providers must implement security measures that promote access to Web 2.0 sites while protecting against malicious or inappropriate content. Research facilities and universities require an open environment that promotes the collaboration of information and ideas. With mobile students, laptops, and Web 2.0 devices, administrators need to enforce the same policies and level of protection for users whether they are outside or inside of the organization’s network. Failure to mitigate inbound threats, like spam and malware, as well as prevent outbound leaks of student, faculty, or research information can jeopardize student privacy, funding for research grants, and donations from alumni that are critical to ensuring universities’ success.
Education: K-12
Keep Ahead of Savvy Students
Thousands of schools and libraries rely on Websense to provide a safe and productive learning environment for students and faculty. With accurate security filtering to handle uncategorized sites and user-generated content, safe-search capabilities, and flexible policy setting, Websense solutions provide administrators, rather than IT experts, with the ability to create and enforce security policies across school districts.
Challenges Facing K-12 Schools
Educational providers must implement security measures, not just filtering, to protect students from malicious threats, child predators, and inappropriate content or offensive emails. The risks from these threats are growing, and yesterday’s protection within schools and libraries is no longer adequate to meet today’s threats. District administrators and supervisors must upgrade their technology in order to stop savvy students from circumventing acceptable use policies with Web-based proxies and anonymizers.
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Laws like the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) can penalize schools that don’t use Web filtering software by withholding federal Internet and computer funding. Websense meets CIPA criteria.
With Websense Essential Information Protection, educational institutions can add protection to help:
- Prevent students, staff and faculty from accessing inappropriate content or downloading malicious code
- Protect student, staff, faculty and research information from compromise, theft or inappropriate use
- Shield schools from lawsuits due to the inadvertent disclosure of student records due to a security breach