Websense Email Security

Websense Messaging Security Solutions

Stopping today’s email threats requires an expansive view that goes well beyond email. By integrating best-in-class Web security and data security technology with email security, Websense achieves unparalleled visibility into emerging threats and the highest possible levels of protection from inbound and outbound corporate email security risks.

With Websense email security solutions, customers gain mission-critical security while enabling a consolidated security strategy with the trusted leader in Essential Information Protection.

Available as a hosted email security service or on-premise software, Websense email security protects against the convergence of Web and email threats, including data loss and regulatory violations. Only Websense email security provides email compliance and security backed by the intelligence of the Websense ThreatSeeker Network.

Websense Hosted Email Security

Maintaining comprehensive email protection has become difficult, especially with the vast array and volume of complex threats that continue to bombard our networks. Businesses of all sizes are finding that their network infrastructure is under significant strain and their administrative resources are over-burdened. Even the most skilled IT managers are challenged to keep up and costs can quickly get out of hand.

Websense Hosted Email Security is the solution for these business concerns. Websense Hosted Email Security provides leading protection from converged email and Web 2.0 threats by leveraging the power and intelligence of the ThreatSeeker Network. The hosted security model provides reduced costs and complexity while allowing businesses to retain control and eliminate uncertainty through industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs). With Websense Hosted Email Security, customers gain mission-critical security while enabling a consolidated security strategy with the trusted leader in Essential Information Protection.

Websense Hosted Email Security enables customers to:

  • Reduce business costs and complexity with no on-site equipment to install or maintain, savings in bandwidth and storage, no unexpected expenditures, and eased administrative overhead
  • Increase protection with leading security from converged email and Web 2.0 threats backed by industry-leading SLAs and the power of the Websense ThreatSeeker Network
  • Retain control with 24×7 access and flexible customization of policies, configuration settings, quarantine management, and reporting


The Websense messaging portfolio includes Websense Hosted Email Security, Websense Email Security,
and Websense Hybrid Email Security, a solution that combines layered hosted and on-premise security.

Websense Email Security

While email threats remain prevalent, what is less known is that email is also a common source of outbound violations as well, resulting in data loss or regulatory non-compliance. Websense Email Security is a software-based, gateway solution that incorporates multiple layers of real-time intelligence and marketleading Web and data security technology to provide highly effective protection against complex inbound and outbound threats. Websense Email Security provides powerful and flexible rules-based policy controls for enforcing corporate email policies.

Websense Email Security enables customers to:

  • Increase protection with leading security from converged email and Web 2.0 threats backed by the power of the Websense ThreatSeeker Network
  • Enforce outbound compliance and data loss protection with granular and highly accurate content filtering to help organizations achieve better corporate governance
  • Gain visibility through reporting by helping to monitor email usage with a customizable dashboard, interactive drill-down reports, automatic report scheduling, and delivery

Websense Hybrid Email Security

Websense Hybrid Email Security combines Websense Hosted Email Security in the cloud and Websense Email Security at the network gateway. This layered, hybrid deployment keeps administrative overhead down while providing the greatest level of efficiency and protection. Inbound protection is delivered through the hosted solution, filtering spam and viruses, while the on-premise solution provides for a highly granular level of outbound email protection. Through this powerful combination, organisations can configure finely-tuned policies for outbound filtering, ensuring compliance with internal policies and federal regulations, while taking advantage of the simplicity of a hosted model to prevent inbound threats.

For further information on Websense products and solutions please contact a member of the Krome team on 01932 232345 or visit the Websense Literature Store.