SRF Ltd : Websense Implementation

Information security is a key challenge that confronts enterprises these
days. Security threats through malware is one of the major causes of Internet
and data links getting choked because of over utilization of bandwidth. This
hits the availability of critical services such as email, enterprise apps,
Internet, etc.

In SRF, the root cause of bandwidth clogs was related to viruses and trojans
on laptops/desktops. Such infections used to generate continuous traffic from
various locations to the data center. Inappropriate use of the costly internet
bandwidth for non business activity needed to be checked to improve performance
of other internet dependant applications like email, patch updating processes,
etc at the two data centers as well as internet browsing at all locations of SRF.
The company found Websense Web Security Suite to be most effective in its
overall functionality and reporting mechanism as well as it has a very user
friendly and detailed categorization of websites which enables easy Policy
implementation. The tool is offered as a service with an annual recurring cost.
It is flexible and can be used through the port mirroring concept as well as
packet forwarding to do URL and content filtering for web access. Active
Directory integration was possible in this tool hence managing the users for
policy application is an easy task. The benefits: proxy avoidance cases got
controlled; vulnerable website access got controlled; bandwidth usage got
optimized; productivity loss happening due to inappropriate use of Internet got
controlled; Internet security risk identification and mitigation got automated
which was another major breakthrough.