Websense intros new security application

SAN DIEGO, USA: Websense, Inc., a provider of email security solutions, today introduced Defensio 2.0, which analyzes and classifies user-generated content on Facebook to prevent the posting of malicious and inappropriate content, and enhances the real-time threat intelligence of the Websense Web Security Gateway.

The release of Defensio 2.0 delivers the industry’s first and only security application designed for Facebook that provides Facebook page owners real-time content and security analysis of comments, wall posts, third party applications, links and other content posted to their Facebook page, said a press release.

The unique Web 2.0 threat detection and analysis conducted by Defensio is incorporated into all Websense solutions, including the Websense Web Security Gateway, so customers are protected from emerging threats and malicious content before they spread beyond the social Web and become a broader security concern.

With the Defensio security application for Facebook, Websense is the first and only security vendor able to integrate into its security solutions the threat intelligence captured behind the closed doors of private social networks - where many new threats first emerge, incubate and spread.

“Other Web security technologies that try to address uncategorized Web 2.0 content using only virus signatures, URL reputation or categorization are fundamentally flawed and limited,” said Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer, Websense.

He added that with the combination of the security intelligence captured by Defensio and the real-time content analysis of Websense Web Security Gateway, Websense users benefit from having early threat detection sensors within the very fabric of the dynamic Web and the ability to proactively identify and protect from new malware, emerging exploits or potentially unwanted applications before they become a problem.

Websense Web Security Gateway and Defensio analyze the links on the social Web before users try to access them, gaining intelligence of the site as well as the content and embedded links on it. Leveraging this threat intelligence, Web Security Gateway customers benefit from finely tuned real-time URL categorization, real-time content classification, and nine points of reputation inspection – including property type, lexical and search reputation, history, age, geography, neighboring properties and more.

The Defensio application helps organizations protect their brand reputation and their “fans” from spam or malicious content on their corporate Facebook pages, while at the same time feeding valuable threat intelligence into Websense global security network to enhance security for Websense Web Security Gateway customers, the release added.