Stories about: Surfcontrol

With last year's acquisition of Port Authority, a data loss prevention (DLP) vendor and SurfControl, a Web and e-mail security company, Websense has since evolved from being known as a Web solution company to establishing itself as one that also provides DLP and e-mail security solutions.

This month marks two years of "In Security." Over the past year, some of my more popular columns have dealt with data aggregation and theft, the limits of risk management, getting along with human resources, how to spot and handle rogue security staff, encroachments on personal privacy, and the humor we find in the nonsensical things we hear from security consultants and the consulted. Sometimes it's the laugh of recognition; sometimes it's the laugh right before everyone looks away nervously and changes the subject. In either case, it's worth taking a look back before considering what's next.

Be careful what you wish for. The iPhone has realized the old promise of the mobile Web. But it's not clear whether the wireless networks can handle the load.

A UK-based Web filtering company, Bloxx, is setting up shop in Australia this month competing against a long list of companies already established locally including Websense and Content Keeper Technologies.

Servcorp engineering and IT services manager, Brett Olsen, estimates the company's e-mail volumes has inceased tenfold in the last four years.

Frost & Sullivan has named Websense the leader of the Asia Pacific (APAC) web content filtering market.

Former SurfControl general manager, Phil Vasic, has been appointed ANZ country manager for Websense.

The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager's head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of start-ups, then even more quickly dwindled down to a few independent companies as larger vendors cherry-picked smaller ones to add data leakage to their own product portfolios.

As part of its global expansion, Web specialist Email Systems today opened its regional operations in Sydney which will provide support to businesses in the Asia Pacific region.

It still weighs heavily on Bryan's mind, what he found on that executive's computer, especially when he thinks of his own daughters. He's particularly troubled that the man he discovered using a company computer to view pornography of Asian women and of children was subsequently promoted and moved to China to run a manufacturing plant.

SurfControl on Wednesday announced an upgrade to its e-mail security filter software that adds reputation services and new compliance features, while also easing policy management.