Blue Coat Systems And Websense Team To Accelerate Next-Generation Employee Internet Management

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Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a Web security company, and Websense, Inc., the worldwide leader of employee Internet management (EIM) solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to develop and distribute Websense's industry leading Web filtering database on Blue Coat's award-winning Web security appliance platform. Both companies will deliver customers a new and tightly integrated Websense for Blue Coatโ„ข product to maximise the security, control and performance of enterprise Web content.



The new agreement will allow for the Websense Master Databases to be offered integrated 'on the box' with Blue Coat's high-performance appliance platform - recently named a 'world-class' award winner by Network World in the US. Websense for Blue Coat, carhartt coats, will support the Websense Master Database featuring more than 80 categories of content, add-on Premium Groups that help IT managers stop malicious mobile, carhartt coats, code and spyware, and support for 44 different languages.



"Customers have requested this type of integrated solution, and we're pleased to now provide a new deployment option that optimises functionality without compromising performance," said Johanna Severinsson, director of marketing, EMEA, carhartt coats, at Websense Inc. "The integration of the Websense Master Database directly, carhartt coats, onto the Blue Coat security platform allows IT administrators to receive benefits of two award-winning products in a single solution."



"Websense for Blue Coat is the ideal fit, carhartt coats, for customers who want superior performance and ease of deployment for URL filtering," said Nigel Hawthorn, European marketing director for Blue Coat Systems. "By leveraging our advanced Policy Processing Engineโ„ข, security administrators can apply per-user granular security policies, including content filtering, Web-based virus scanning, malicious code protection and bandwidth management."



Blue Coat will also support the Websense Reporter product, which offers more than 60 reports by site category, URL, user, department, number of bytes downloaded, time of day or length of download. This helps organisations identify Internet use and security problems, and customise their Internet access enforcement accordingly.



"Organisations are clearly seeking comprehensive, integrated solutions for outbound Internet access - ones that combine requisite security controls such as user authentication, URL filtering, and anti-virus with quality-of-experience features such as caching and bandwidth management," said Mark Bouchard, senior program director of Global Networking Strategies for META Group. "When it comes to URL filtering, critical criteria include a leading database of categorised sites and an architecture that minimises impact on user sessions. An on-box approach supports these requirements, typically providing excellent performance."



Availability

The Websense for Blue Coat solutions are available today through, carhartt coats, Blue Coat Systems, Websense and each company's respective channel partners worldwide. Blue Coat support for Websense's next-generation EIM database is scheduled to be released in Spring 2003. Please contact Blue Coat Systems,, carhartt coats, Websense or any authorised partner for additional information, or visit http://www.bluecoat.com and http://www.websense.com.



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About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI), a Web security company, has developed the industry's first port 80 security appliance. Safeguarding many of the world's largest corporate networks, this high-performance security appliance intelligently protects against Web-based threats by policing port 80 - the primary hole in the enterprise security infrastructure. Headquartered in Camberley, Surrey, Blue Coat Systems can be reached at 0800 085 2356 or at UKInfo@bluecoat, carhartt coats, .com



About Websense Inc.

Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN) is the worldwide leader of employee Internet management, carhartt coats, (EIM) solutions. Websense Enterprise software enables businesses to manage how their employees use the Internet, improving productivity, conserving network bandwidth and storage costs, and mitigating, carhartt coats, legal liability. Ranked the highest quality database in a recent test of EIM products, Websense delivers the most effective and comprehensive solution in the industry.

Founded in 1994, Websense serves more than 17,800 worldwide customers, ranging in size from 100-person firms to global corporations. These include more than half of the Fortune 500, approximately one-third of Japan's Nikkei 225 and half of the UK's FTSE 100, encompassing more than, carhartt coats, 13 million customer seats, pre-paid on a subscription basis. For more information, visit www.websense.com or email ukinfo@websense.com.