Websense Enterprise, v5.2
Release date: 05.03.04
Now available

Websense Enterprise

Installation and Deployment

• Introduction of Websense Enterprise^® Install Manager
• Allows customers to download and begin configuring Websense Enterprise and its add-on modules with a single click (small 1MB file)
• Includes installation of a full complement of the company's products such as Websense reporting tools and the recently introduced Websense Enterprise Client Policy Manager™
• Remembers if you've already downloaded a product package

Product Renaming

• Web filtering product formerly called "EIM" is now called Websense Enterprise
• The actual service that provides the policy lookup for URL and protocol filtering is now called "Websense Filtering Service"
• The desktop application formerly called "Client Application Manager (CAM)" is now called "Client Policy Manager (CPM)"
• Websense Enterprise is consistently used before all product and product component names

Websense Enterprise, Web Filtering

Filtering and Policy Management

• Export Websense Enterprise policies to a text file for easy import into Excel or other applications
• Install-time selections of users' initial policy - either a predefined filtering policy or a monitor-only policy

Enhancements to Network Agent

• Support for IM Attachment Manager
• Protocol management across Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms
• Performance enhancements for single CPU and multiple CPU environment

Inclusion of new directory services

• eDirectory Agent - users can use eDirectory Agent with eDirectory Server running on Netware
• RADIUS Agent

Operating System Support

• Microsoft NT, 2000, 2003
• Sun Solaris 8, 9
• Dropped Solaris 2.6 and 2.7
• Red Hat Linux 9, Enterprise 3
• Added Red Hat Enterprise 3
• Dropped Red Hat Linux 8

Afterwork.com / Defer filtering option removed

Websense Enterprise Client Policy Manager v5.2

Network Access Lockdown

• Blocks application network access to specific ports and protocols by application category

Explorer for CPM

• Interactive, browser-based forensic and reporting tool that identifies application launch and network access attempts by employee, department, date, disposition, and application category

Protocol Catcher

• Automatically and anonymously forwards network access behavior of applications to Websense for inclusion in the Application Database

Operating System Support

• CPM Server
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 3 or greater) or Windows NT4 Server (Service Pack 6a or greater)
• CPM Client
• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows 98 SE

Websense Reporting

Consistent UI for Websense Enterprise Explorer and Explorer for CPM

Enhancements to Websense Explorer for CPM

• Addition of information for "Network Attempts"
• Information on applications that attempt to access the network and resulting action
• Highlight applications that do more than launch and run locally
• Addition of "Unclassified Network Access" button
• Quick link to info on uncategorized applications that attempt to access network

Websense Enterprise, v5.1
Release date: 11.10.03
Now available

Websense Enterprise, Internet filtering

Installation & Deployment

• General installation and configuration enhancements
• Streamlined install
• Automatic IP detection – Product components automatically detect their IP address and self-configure themselves
• Enhancements to Network Agent
• Streamlined Network Agent installation – Added wizard-based configuration for Network Agent
• Network Agent support for servers with multiple NIC's –
• Ability to run in "stealth" mode – Network Agent runs without an IP address, minimizing the potential of being hacked
• Platform support enhancements
• Network Agent support on Red Hat Linux 8 - 9
• Across-the-board support for Windows 2003 for all components
• Extended support for Red Hat Linux support for Websense Enterprise Server to version 9.0

Filtering & Policy Management

• Enhancements to customizable block pages – added support for user-specific variables
• Embedded URL filtering – blocks URL translations from public proxies or sites that cache Web content

Reporting

Enhancements to Websense Explorer™

• Protocol and bandwidth information – added ability to view application protocol use and bandwidth volume enhancing the ability to measure impact from instant messaging, peer-to-peer and bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming media
• Source Server IP – added ability to create views by source server IP allowing network administrators to view network traffic and Internet activity by integrated gateway devices to Websense Enterprise Server
• Full localization support – Full localization support for the Websense Explorer interface, from menus to category data, for seven languages in the Language Pack prior to version 5.1, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese (released in this version) not supported
• Department-level Reporting – Support for delegated administration feature where administrators can view only Internet activity for users or groups in departments that they have permission to view

Enhancements to Websense Real-Time Analyzer

• Updated user interface

Language Pack (Localization)

• Support for Italian and Portuguese (Brazilian) – initial support for categories and block pages (does not include Websense Explorer or Websense Reporter), enhances support from seven to nine languages
• Websense Explorer™ is fully localized
• CAM Reporter localized for Japanese

Client Application Manager™

• Automated desktop agent deployment and uninstall – one click install or un-install of the CAM Agent from seamlessly within Websense Manager
• Enhanced desktop inventorying – Extends CAM's inventorying and reporting capabilities to applications in addition to executables and enables hardware inventorying and reporting
• Windows 2003 support for CAM Agent
• CAM Reporter localized for Japanese

Websense Enterprise, v5.0.1:
Release date: 06.30.03
Now available

Web Filtering

• Enhanced Network Agent installation and configuration
• Added support for Squid as a new integration solution
• Added support for Volera as a new on-box integration solution
• Added support for Red Hat Linux 9
• Multiple smaller known issues

Reporting

• Explorer support for MSDE databases

CAM

• Support for Windows 98 clients

Websense Enterprise, v5:
Release date: 03.17.03
Now available

Websense Enterprise v5 with enhanced Web filtering functionality will include:

• Dynamic protocol management, which allows IT managers to manage employee access to protocols, such as instant messaging, streaming media and those that tunnel over port 80. Protocols are updated daily via automatic database downloads.
• Real-time analyzer, an easy-to-use reporting tool that gives IT managers an immediate, real-time snapshot of network traffic, including protocols, bandwidth, Web sites visited and more.
• File-type management, helping customers manage employee downloading of various file types from the Web, grouped into simple, point-and-click categories. File types are also updated daily via automatic database downloads.
• Central policy distribution, an additional feature that allows large corporations and distributed enterprises to quickly and easily "push out" centralized Websense policies to multiple Websense servers.
• Trend and risk reporting, the expansion of Websense Reporter that allows customers to monitor Internet traffic trends and highlight specific risks related to employee Web surfing and other activities.

Bandwidth Optimizer, an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features including:

• Dynamic shaping of network traffic, which provides a means for IT managers to set reasonable limits on non-work-related bandwidth use until network conditions allow more open access.
• Adaptive traffic management, allowing IT managers to ensure business-related traffic flows smoothly, while taking a user-friendly approach to non-work-related requests.
• Flexible policies by protocol and category, helping IT managers block access to high-bandwidth media by content category, protocol, user, group and network policy.

Client Application Manager (CAM), also an add-on module sold at an additional per-employee subscription price, will offer features such as:

• Desktop application management, a productivity- and security-enhancing feature that allows IT managers to set centrally managed policies on which applications can run on individual desktops by category, user, group or network. As an example, IT managers can allow employees to open gaming applications only during lunch hours, while denying access to spyware and rogue executable applications at all times.
• Desktop lockdown, a powerful feature that allows IT managers to secure certain desktops by only allowing authorized applications, scripts and executable programs to run. All other executables, not known by the central policy server, are blocked.
• Outbreak mode, a feature that helps IT managers halt the spread of viruses, worms, and rogue executable programs and applications in real time, by being able to prevent the launch of a particular filename across the enterprise.