Secure Web Gateway Classifies Specific Content on Web Pages in Real-Time, Enabling Organizations to Take Advantage of Benefits of Web 2.0, With Up-to-the-Second Protection From Threats and Inappropriate Content

SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/25/09 -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) today affirmed its advanced content security solutions provide protection from the growing number of shortened URLs used and shared on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and in blog comments.

Unlike other Web security solutions that rely primarily on antivirus signatures to detect malware -- unique to Websense and only available with the Websense® Web Security Gateway -- if the shortened URL leads the user to a Web 2.0 Web site with dynamic content, the Websense secure Web gateway in real-time classifies the content on that page and will either allow the user to go to the site if its deemed safe and appropriate or prevent the user from visiting the page. Websense Web Security Gateway is the only secure Web gateway that can scan Web 2.0 properties in real time for content across more than 90 categories.

"For years, Websense Web Security solutions have protected customers from URLs that attempt to redirect users to malicious Web sites," said Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Bill Gardner, Websense. "Many of today's Web 2.0 sites used for business purposes are 'mashups' of different applications. Additionally, Web 2.0 sites allow third party applications and user-generated content that can change from minute-to-minute.