Websense Data Security just works.
June 04, 2014
Websense Data Security just works.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
7.8.x
Modules Used
- Websense Data Security Suite
Overall Satisfaction with Websense
Websense Data Security Suite is used by our customers who want to protect large amounts of intellectual property and other proprietary information. We have seen it implemented in single departments who have specific business needs and across entire organizations who are using it to protect everything from intellectual property to electronic healthcare records to credit card data.
Pros
- Multiple channels for enforcement of policies (web, e-mail, copy/paste, saving to USB, etc.)
- Simple and easy to understand policy definitions
- Built in policies and definitions make it easy to design and publish policies applicable to any industry or type of data
Cons
- The GUI can be a little messy to navigate as advanced configuration items are not always categorized in the sections you'd expect them to be.
- Major upgrades can be a long and arduous process but thankfully come few and far in between compared to other security products.
- Error messages in the GUI are sometimes less than helpful or not verbose enough to diagnose problems without opening the command line.
- Increased visibility into who has access to what types of sensitive data and how they are moved within the organization.
- Changing employee behavior to only handle sensitive types of data through approved communication channels.
- Customers are seeing data security being recognized as a process, not a one time effort, as user behavior changes in response to Websense being implemented within various departments.
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