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Websense Enterprise® Tested and Certified For Interoperability With NetScreen Security Solutions
Customers Benefit from High-Performance Network Security Solution Combined With Market Leading Web Filtering Solution
San Diego and Sunnyvale, CA - December 10, 2003—Websense, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), the world’s leading provider of Web filtering solutions, according to Frost & Sullivan and IDC, and NetScreen Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSCN) today announced that the patented capabilities of Websense Enterprise® v5 have been extensively tested and verified as interoperable with NetScreen’s integrated firewall and virtual private network (VPN) security solutions, ensuring effective functionality and scalability for joint customers.
NetScreen firewalls deployed with Websense Enterprise v5 can protect customer networks from internal and external Web content-related threats. In addition, the combined solution allows organizations to manage how employees use the Internet to improve workplace productivity and preserve network bandwidth by limiting access to time-wasting Web content.
“The combined NetScreen and Websense security solution enables a company to effectively control what Internet content should be allowed into the network,” said Janine Roth, vice president of business development for NetScreen. “NetScreen is committed to working with our alliance partners, including Websense, to deliver world-class security solutions that improve the integrity of our joint customers’ infrastructures while optimizing performance, reliability and scalability.”
“Since 1999, customers have trusted Websense Enterprise combined with firewall technology to provide enhanced network security, improved employee productivity and reduced legal liability,” said Kian Saneii, vice president of marketing and business development, for Websense Inc. “With our best-of-class Websense Enterprise v5 now available to NetScreen customers and tested for interoperability, our joint customers may now also benefit from Websense’s unique policy enforcement mechanisms to ensure highly effective employee policy management.”
The Websense® software interfaces real-time with a sophisticated database of more than 5 million Web sites, which is used to verify all Internet users’ requests based on the company’s acceptable use policy. The database classifies approximately 1.1 billion active Web pages. Organized into more than 80 categories in 52 languages and used in coordination with eight flexible policy options, Websense provides a granular approach to assessing and managing employee access to Web content.
Visit http://www.websense.com/netscreen for more information or to download a free, fully functional 30-day trial of Websense Enterprise v5, NetScreen Edition.
About The NetScreen Global Security Alliance
Websense is a member of the NetScreen Global Security Alliance where participating companies provide products complementary to NetScreen’s integrated network security solutions. These products undergo testing to verify functionality and interoperability with NetScreen solutions. Consequently, information technology professionals can obtain an array of scalable solutions integrating NetScreen and alliance members’ products to create an interoperable and effective end-to-end security infrastructure. For more information about the NetScreen Global Security Alliance, visit: www.netscreen.com/alliances/index.html.
About Websense, Inc.
Websense, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN) is the world’s leading provider of employee Internet management solutions. Websense Enterprise software enables organizations to manage how employees use their computing resources, including Internet access, desktop applications and network bandwidth. These solutions help improve productivity and security, conserve information technology resources, and mitigate legal liability for our customers. Websense serves more than 20,000 customers worldwide, including many of the world’s largest corporations. For more information, visit www.websense.com.
About NetScreen Technologies
NetScreen Technologies, Inc., is a leading developer of network security and access solutions for enterprises and carriers worldwide. NetScreen's solutions offer customers multiple layers of network and application-level protection in purpose-built appliances and systems that optimize performance and reduce total operating costs. NetScreen is located at 805 11th Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif., 94089. More information on NetScreen's products can be found at www.netscreen.com or by calling toll free at 1-800-638-8296.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements about events and circumstances that have not yet occurred. For example, words such as “will”, “expects”, “provide”, “continue”, and “allows”, or other statements in the future tense, are forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from expectations in this press release due to a number of risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include whether the market for security products will grow as projected, if at all, whether demand for NetScreen products will continue, whether new products, if and when introduced, will be successful and whether products will perform as expected.
