Together, Websense and Network Appliance are offering customers a platform that eliminates redundant and unproductive Web traffic, while greatly reducing the load on the network. By coupling Websense Enterprise with NetCache appliances, customers can boost network performance by caching frequently visited Web pages and removing unproductive, bandwidth-intensive content. Employee requests to the Internet are checked with Websense's management application to ensure that the Web content is appropriate according to the customer's particular Internet access policy. In addition to blocking and permitting access, Websense software lets organizations use a host of flexible management options, such as Postpone, Defer and Continue. This enables employees to postpone personal Web surfing until appropriate times, such as lunch, before or after work.
Administrators can also schedule specific times to generate reports.
The largest, most accurate database of sites in the Internet filtering category, the Websense Master Database consists of more than 2.2 million sites comprised of 400 million Web pages and is organized into more than 65 categories. The database is automatically and incrementally updated daily, with subcategories that allow finer control of Internet access policies. PG II allows managers to limit employee use of streaming or bandwidth-intensive content that can choke corporate networks, such as Internet radio, Internet telephony and others. This collaboration allows our customers to reduce Web traffic and feel more secure that the content reaching their employees is the right content. The Websense and Network Appliance joint solution will be available in June 2001.