Websense Enterprise, Internet filtering
Installation & Deployment
- General installation and configuration enhancements
- Streamlined install
- Automatic IP detection – Product components automatically detect their IP address and self-configure themselves
- Enhancements to Network Agent
- Streamlined Network Agent installation – Added wizard-based configuration for Network Agent
- Network Agent support for servers with multiple NIC's –
- Ability to run in "stealth" mode – Network Agent runs without an IP address, minimizing the potential of being hacked
- Platform support enhancements
- Network Agent support on Red Hat Linux 8 - 9
- Across-the-board support for Windows 2003 for all components
- Extended support for Red Hat Linux support for Websense Enterprise Server to version 9.0
Filtering & Policy Management
- Enhancements to customizable block pages – added support for user-specific variables
- Embedded URL filtering – blocks URL translations from public proxies or sites that cache Web content
Reporting
Enhancements to Websense Explorer™
- Protocol and bandwidth information – added ability to view application protocol use and bandwidth volume enhancing the ability to measure impact from instant messaging, peer-to-peer
and bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming media
- Source Server IP – added ability to create views by source server IP allowing network administrators to view network traffic and Internet activity by integrated gateway devices to
Websense Enterprise Server
- Full localization support – Full localization support for the Websense Explorer interface, from menus to category data, for seven languages in the Language Pack prior to version 5.1,
Italian and Brazilian Portuguese (released in this version) not supported
- Department-level Reporting – Support for delegated administration feature where administrators can view only Internet activity for users or groups in departments that they have
permission to view
Enhancements to Websense Real-Time Analyzer
Language Pack (Localization)
- Support for Italian and Portuguese (Brazilian) – initial support for categories and block pages (does not include Websense Explorer or Websense Reporter), enhances support from seven to
nine languages
- Websense Explorer™ is fully localized
- CAM Reporter localized for Japanese
Client Application Manager™
- Automated desktop agent deployment and uninstall – one click install or un-install of the CAM Agent from seamlessly within Websense Manager
- Enhanced desktop inventorying – Extends CAM's inventorying and reporting capabilities to applications in addition to executables and enables hardware inventorying and reporting
- Windows 2003 support for CAM Agent
- CAM Reporter localized for Japanese
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Websense Enterprise v5 with enhanced Web filtering functionality will include:
- Dynamic protocol management, which allows IT managers to manage employee access to protocols, such as instant messaging, streaming media and those that tunnel over port 80. Protocols are
updated daily via automatic database downloads.
- Real-time analyzer, an easy-to-use reporting tool that gives IT managers an immediate, real-time snapshot of network traffic, including protocols, bandwidth, Web sites visited and more.
- File-type management, helping customers manage employee downloading of various file types from the Web, grouped into simple, point-and-click categories. File types are also updated daily
via automatic database downloads.
- Central policy distribution, an additional feature that allows large corporations and distributed enterprises to quickly and easily "push out" centralized Websense policies to multiple
Websense servers.
- Trend and risk reporting, the expansion of Websense Reporter that allows customers to monitor Internet traffic trends and highlight specific risks related to employee Web surfing and
other activities.
Bandwidth Optimizer, an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features including:
- Dynamic shaping of network traffic, which provides a means for IT managers to set reasonable limits on non-work-related bandwidth use until network conditions allow more open access.
- Adaptive traffic management, allowing IT managers to ensure business-related traffic flows smoothly, while taking a user-friendly approach to non-work-related requests.
- Flexible policies by protocol and category, helping IT managers block access to high-bandwidth media by content category, protocol, user, group and network policy.
Client Application Manager (CAM), also an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features such as:
- Desktop application management, a productivity- and security-enhancing feature that allows IT managers to set centrally managed policies on which applications can run on individual
desktops by category, user, group or network. As an example, IT managers can allow employees to open gaming applications only during lunch hours, while denying access to spyware and rogue
executable applications at all times.
- Desktop lockdown, a powerful feature that allows IT managers to secure certain desktops by only allowing authorized applications, scripts and executable programs to run. All other
executables, not known by the central policy server, are blocked.
- Outbreak mode, a feature that helps IT managers halt the spread of viruses, worms, and rogue executable programs and applications in real time, by being able to prevent the launch of a
particular filename across the enterprise.
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