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.