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Websense Enterprise Security Suite. (Virus Notes).


The Websense Enterprise Security Suite is designed to complement a company's existing anti-virus tools and protect a company's network from Web-based virus and mailware infection before an updated virus signature becomes available. Websense Enterprise Security Suite combines the database categories of Websense Premium Group III In the periodic table Group III covered what are now called
  • Group 13 elements: boron (B), aluminium (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), thallium (Tl)
  • Group 3 elements: scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y) plus the Lanthanide and Actinide series elements.
 - protection against Web-based viruses, malicious Web content and spyware Software that sends information about your Web surfing habits to its Web site. Often quickly installed in your computer in combination with a free download you selected from the Web, spyware transmits information in the background as you move around the Web.  - and the company's new Client Application Manager (CAM), an add-on module of Websense Enterprise v5 software.

Websense Enterprise Security Suite provides two layers of security protection at the network and desktop-levels. Websense Premium Group III protects a company against security threats at the network-level by blocking employee access to Web sites infected in·fect  
tr.v. in·fect·ed, in·fect·ing, in·fects
1. To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.

2. To communicate a pathogen or disease to.

3. To invade and produce infection in.
 with Web-based viruses, malicious mobile code and spyware. The Premium Group ill database requires no additional administration because it is updated daily with newly infected Web sites and automatically downloaded to customers.

Additionally, if a virus is introduced through another channel, such as email, the "Outbreak" mode of Websense CAM allows a company to update its enterprise-wide policy with the virus filename file·name also file name  
n.
A name given to a computer file to distinguish it from other files, often containing an extension that classifies it by type.
(s) to immediately stop the spread of the rogue application by blocking its launch at the desktop-level. In addition, Websense CAM enables companies to proactively lockdown Lockdown

A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock.

Notes:
These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has
 employee desktops to prevent the execution of any unauthorised software, whether malicious or not.

Websense Enterprise Security Suite blocks current viruses, including the Fizzer, Palyh, Lentin, and Klez viruses, which spread using a P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point.  file-sharing network, by blocking employee access to P2P Web sites, network-level P2P protocols and malicious applications.

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Date:Jul 1, 2003
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