Websense launches new security app for Facebook

To protect users from encountering malicious links, inappropriate content, viruses or spam

Websense, a provider of unified web, data and email security offerings, has launched new Defensio 2.0, which analyses and classifies user-generated content on Facebook to prevent the posting of malicious and inappropriate content and enhances the real-time threat intelligence of the Web Security Gateway.

The company said that it has worked with Facebook to create a security application that helps protect Facebook users from encountering malicious links, inappropriate content, viruses or spam. It also provides Facebook page owners real-time content and security analysis of comments, wall posts, third party applications, links and other content posted to their Facebook page.

The Web 2.0 threat detection and analysis conducted by Defensio is incorporated into all Websense offerings, including the Web Security Gateway, protecting customers from emerging threats and malicious content before they spread beyond the social web, Websense said.

According to Websense, the Web Security Gateway and Defensio analyse the links on the social web before users try to access them, gaining intelligence of the site, content and embedded links on it. In addition, the gateway also leverages security intelligence gathered from the 50 million real-time data collecting systems of the Websense ThreatSeeker Network and continuously updated database of millions of classified URLs.

Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer of Websense, said: “With the combination of the security intelligence captured by Defensio and the real-time content analysis of Websense Web Security Gateway, Websense users benefit from having early threat detection sensors within the very fabric of the dynamic Web and the ability to proactively identify and protect from new malware, emerging exploits or potentially unwanted applications before they become a problem.”

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