Dynamic, interactive Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the Web into a core business application platform. Traditional customer relationship and payroll applications are now delivered interactively over the Web, while applications like social networking are used on a daily basis for recruitment, lead generation, and other business processes.
Along with Web 2.0, however, comes new risk as dynamic and user-generated content renders traditional security technologies, such as antivirus and URL filtering, ineffective. These technologies also do not provide control over sensitive outbound data posted to Web 2.0 sites.
Websense® Web Security Gateway leads the secure Web gateway market by providing the best protection against modern Web 2.0 threats with the lowest total cost of ownership. Web Security Gateway secures the use of Web 2.0, with its real-time dynamic threat protection, and Web content categorization that classifies content within Web pages “on the fly,” helping to maintain productivity and compliance with acceptable use policy.
Based on ability to execute and completeness of vision, Gartner positions Websense in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway.
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Gartner recently released its analysis and published the 2009 Gartner MQ for Content-Aware DLP.
In reviewing the results, there don’t seem to be any surprises:
- RSA, Symantec, and Websense are the only vendors in the leaders quadrant
- MIA are Reconnex (now McAfee) and Vericept who have dropped from the leaders quadrant
The one thing to note, is that the report has been renamed to ‘content-aware DLP’ which is meant to highlight identification techniques that go beyond the basic keywords and pattern matching.
It helps differentiate the vendors in this report and helps parse out the ones that toss around the term ‘DLP’ just to grab customer attention.
The true DLP product developers/vendors in the leaders quadrant provide:
- the most comprehensive set of capabilities both at the network AND client
- technologies that prevent loss of a wide array of data, including regulated and IP.
- Breadth and depth in technological capabilities
- Innovation and vision to address data loss from a broader perspective
Don’t get me wrong, the rest may be suitable to address specific use cases, but in my view, they lack in various areas to truly approach data loss in a holistic fashion.
This is the third report of its kind from the team at Gartner. Other analyst firms have released their take on DLP and the technology vendors in this space. For example The Forrester Wave on Content Security also provides a great analysis.
On a side note: Great to see Websense pull off a 3-peat !
