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Control Security Risks
While Enabling Educators
The three key challenges for IT and security teams in education establishments
are how to control the use of the following, without having to shut off online
services that can be extremely useful to both educators and students:
• Proxy avoidance
Websense V10000
securely enables the use
of web based tools while
controlling the use of
newborn proxy avoidance
servers, social networking
websites and YouTube.
• Social networking sites
• YouTube
The Websense® V10000™ Web Security Gateway appliance can offer a real
solution to these concerns, providing visibility and control over dynamic
content, as and when it is requested by the end-user.
Websense V10000 Appliance
The Websense V10000 Web security gateway appliance platform is the
industry’s most accurate and effective solution for Web 2.0 content control and
threat protection, enabling organizations to accelerate business without having
to worry about security, productivity, and liability threats such as malicious and
inappropriate content and data loss. Utilizing a hardened operating system
optimized for analyzing Web traffic and content, the Websense V10000 appliance
meets the performance requirements of high-throughput enterprise networks.
The Websense V10000 appliance provides lower cost of ownership by minimizing
the amount of hardware required to deploy and manage a secure Web gateway
and by delivering unparalleled price performance. The Websense V10000
appliance helps organizations reduce capital and operating costs, including space,
power, management, and maintenance.
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Sample Network Diagram
Websense V10000
Proxy Avoidance
Problem
Solution
Challenges arising with updating new
proxy avoidance sites. Students setting
up their own private servers or using
SSL encryption to circumvent detection.
The Websense V10000 appliance can
identify proxy avoidance sites, even
private sites, newborn sites, or those
using encryption, in real-time, and can
stop students from accessing them.
Social Networking
Problem
Solution
Difficulty in striking a balance between
educator requests for social networking
and IT concerns about managing risk.
The Websense V10000 appliance allows
schools to say YES! to Facebook and other
social networking sites by identifying and
blocking inappropriate and malicious
dynamic content while allowing the
appropriate content to be accessed.
YouTube
Problem
Solution
Concerns about the risks associated with
YouTube; resources unnecessarily allocated
to manually controlling who can access
what content as educators request it.
The Websense V10000 appliance provides
the ability to filter malicious and inappropriate content embedded within YouTube
videos, allowing users to reap the benefits
of this educational tool.
The Websense Web Security Gateway offers:
• Visibility and control over dynamic Web content and outbound data loss,
including SSL encrypted traffic
• Protection against Web 2.0 threats such as dynamic scripts
• Advanced protocol and application controls for IM, P2P, and more
• Leading price and performance
• Easy-to-use, centralized management and granular reporting
• Integrated Web proxy and caching
• Built-in extensibility for future-proofed security
To learn more about how Websense addresses these challenges and other security and
networking risks, contact your local Websense sales representative or channel partner.
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