Websense, Inc. announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention (Eric Ouellet and Paul Proctor, June 22, 2009). Gartner evaluated Websense Data Security solutions. Vendors in the Magic Quadrant are selected based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.
The report concludes: “The leaders have demonstrated good understanding of client needs and offer comprehensive capabilities in all three functional areas – network, discovery, and endpoint – either directly or through well-established partnerships and tight integration. They offer aggressive road maps, and they will need to execute on those road maps, fully incorporate enhanced features currently in development and address evolving market needs to remain in the Leaders quadrant.”
Websense DLP solutions provide customers with visibility and control over their information to prevent data loss, secure business processes and manage compliance and risk. The Data Security suite includes the modules Data Monitor, Data Discover, Data Protect and Data Endpoint and enables organizations to identify confidential data, monitor its use, and create and automate content-use enforcement policies for users both on and off the network.
“We believe being included in the Leaders Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention validates our continuous innovation to stay on top of our customers’ emerging needs by protecting their data from both inbound threats and outbound leaks,” said John McCormack, president, Websense.
According to the Gartner report, “[…] Content-aware DLP technologies are emerging as important information security and privacy controls. One of the key drivers of adoption in this market is the need to address a broad range of mandates including: regulatory and commercial compliance requirements; IT frameworks (for organizational compliance); (and) governance.”
Websense Data Security solutions include easy-to-use policy wizards to quickly select from more than 950 policy templates, ranging from the PCI DSS, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and more. They are available as standalone solutions or can be integrated with Websense Email and Web Security solutions. In 2008, Websense secured new data security customers in 26 countries and achieved 73 percent year over year growth in DLP product sales. (Quelle: Websense, Inc./GST)