Websense Vs. Blue Coat ProxySG/AV

Overview:

• Blue Coat is a leader in WAN optimization
• Blue Coat Proxy SG provides accleration for network applications and when used with other appliances and 3rd party products can provide basic Web AV and URL filtering capabiltities

• Increase the speed of network applications from branch offices and remote locations
• Increase the speed of streaming video broadcasts by caching common video content

• Dynamic protection against modern threats
• Web 2.0 dynamic website policy enforcement
• Low management overhead and lower costs
• Consistent protection on and off network
• Integrated enterprise-class data loss prevention
• Block and throttle web protocols, sites and categories

• How to you detect attacks from web pages not accessible by your cloud based scanner or by standard AV engines?
• Can I manage and report on both on-premise and cloud protected users with a single policy?
• Do I have to buy a separate appliance to protect against data loss over the web?
• How many Blue Coat appliances does it take to provide URL filtering, AV inspection, Web DLP, comprehensive application control, centralized reporting and centralized management?
• Can I monitor user activity in real time?

Reviews and Awards

Miercom Labs:

Gartner, Inc.:

Positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway"

Source: Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway" by Peter Firstbrook and Lawrence Orans, January 8, 2010.

Why Websense Web Security Gateway is better:

Websense’s advanced real-time in-line security scanning protects users from modern threats that signature based malware detection and anti-virus does not detect. When a reputable web site has been compromised and is delivering malicious code to browsers, anti-virus, URL lists and cloud based reputation systems can’t deliver the protection you need.

Control for Web 2.0:

Dynamic Web 2.0 pages within sites such as Facebook or Twitter change minute by minute. Websense’s real time, in-line categorization accurately categorizes content in over 90+ categories and 50 languages,. Blue Coat attempts to categorize dynamic content from the cloud for a limited number of categories doesn’t work on sites requiring credentials like Facebook and other Web 2.0 sites.

TruHybrid capabilities:

Websense TruHybrid unifies cloud and on premise protection seamlessly with a single console, unified reports and unified protection engines.

Web DLP:

Web Security Gateway Anywhere delivers enterprise class data protection efficiently and inexpensively with over 1500 pre-defined templates and patented Precise ID detection technology.

Advanced protection for outbound threats:

Websense detects and blocks outbound “bot” clients that communicate to hackers over the Internet even on non-HTTP ports which Proxy SG can’t detect.

Application and Bandwidth Control:

WSG/A enables blocking and bandwidth control of thousands of applications and more than 125 protocols using advanced application signatures versus 15 protocols in the Blue Coat Proxy SG

Real Time Monitoring:

The Websense Real Time Monitor provides visibility into your web activities as they happen, enabling proactive security and control not available with Blue Coat.