Wednesday underscores the growing interest among IT security companies in data management products. Increased regulatory requirements, rising incidents of data loss and a stronger desire on part ...

Websense, which makes software that detects spyware, phishing, and other malware, has leapfrogged SurfControl in recent years to become the market's biggest seller of Web filtering and end-user ...

Websense’s technology (which it calls ThreatSeeker Cloud) isn’t a Facebook app in the traditional sense and won’t have access to a user’s name, date of birth, wall, networks, friends list ...

Security software provider Websense (WBSN) has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners to explore the sale of the company, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing "people familiar with the matter." ...

Websense, based in San Diego, makes Internet filtering and security software, which it sells to businesses as well as manufacturers who in turn install the software on systems they sell.

Websense acquired PortAuthority Technologies in late 2006 shortly after I reviewed PortAuthority 5.0. Renamed Websense Content Protection Suite, version 6 blends in some Websense technologies ...

Websense has revealed one of its methods for monitoring malicious web activity. The security company revealed its technique on Sunday at the Defcon show in Las Vegas. The company uses a series of ...

Facebook has partnered with Web security gateway software company Websense. The two companies announced today that Websense's technology will help to protect Facebook's 800 million active users ...

Shares of Websense, which sells Web filtering enterprise software, rose 75 cents, or 3.5%, to $22.15 at midday. In April, Websense announced its agreement to buy U.K.-based SurfControl, which ...

Websense Data Security Endpoint re-used the gateway data characterization engine it acquired from PortAuthority, a process not without its headaches for the development team.

Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam. The social network just hired Websense to help with that. Here's what they're up to ...

Everything Channel spoke with Gene Hodges, CEO of Web security company Websense, San Diego, Calif. in a phone interview to get his take on the impact of the challenged economy on the channel, end ...