Though Websense has been up 4.7% in the three months starting Sept. 20, the stock is down more than 26% in the year to date.

Websense said that its subsidiary, Websense SC Operations, has made a pre-conditional cash offer to acquire all shares of SurfControl, which makes on-demand Web and email security products.

Websense reported its fourth-quarter results after U.S. markets closed on Tuesday. Its stock closed at $19.65, up 49 cents, or 2.6 percent. Its shares dipped 14 cents to $19.51 in extended trading.

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 ...

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 wrote its own HoneyJax bots, which it has been using for six months. Open-source social-networking bots are also available, as are commercial bots.

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.

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 ...

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’s role is to protect Facebook users from deliberate attacks introduced by users as external links. Because it has access to every link posted, ever, this approach decreases the risk of ...

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 ...

Websense's proprietary technology is powered by the Advanced Classification Engine (ACE), which can not only block known malware sites, but also those which the system has never encountered before.