Email security. And so much more.

Websense email solutions. Protection you need, options you want.

All three Websense® email products – Email Security Gateway Anywhere (ESGA), Cloud Email Security (CES), and Email Security (ES) – give you protection against:

  • Traditional email threats such as spam, phishing, and viruses
  • Blended threats that combine email, web, and data
  • Data loss through email

Our products also offer:

  • Single console setup
  • Easy upgrade to expand coverage
  • Significant cost savings over multiple, independent solutions

Email security product choices

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Product Why it's unique Who might choose this package
Email Security Gateway Anywhere
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Websense exclusive: This is the only email security product anywhere that offers embedded, enterprise-class data loss prevention (DLP) that:

  • Screens incoming email for blended threats that contain links to malicious websites, invasive script, or other web threats
  • Lets you set extremely granular policy controls to guard against outgoing malicious or accidental data loss
  • Gives you enterprise-class accuracy without extra expense and complexity of multiple vendors, dashboards, or equipment
  • Boosts performance up to three times when compared to other vendors by intercepting all spam and other unwanted email in the cloud, freeing up your servers and preserving bandwidth
  • Also includes all Cloud Email Security features listed below

Companies who want the most comprehensive and lowest-cost DLP coverage available anywhere for email.

Cloud Email Security
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  • Ensures consistent availability of email delivery, with workflow operating on enormous, reliable, and redundant in-the-cloud servers
  • Runs automatic spooling of email in case of outages in your systems

Provides these additional security features:

  • 99% detection level for spam
  • 100% detection level for known viruses
  • Content filter for data loss prevention
  • Server-to-server encryption

Companies looking for basic email security at reduced operational costs.

Email Security
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Offers multipurpose protection against wide-ranging risks, including:

  • Spam, viruses, and phishing
  • Malicious web links within email
  • Employees who email confidential information
  • New and ever-evolving attack strategies

Offers extreme granularity in configuration, controls, and preferences – plus the option to run on dedicated hardware or in a virtualized environment.

Available as software running on either Websense V-Series appliances or your own servers

Includes optional add-ons for additional cost:

  • Websense Image Analysis: Advanced algorithms analyze images embedded in or attached to emails in real-time for inappropriate content such as pornography
  • Websense Advanced Email Encryption: Encrypts email from end-user to end-user based on policy, protecting confidential communications with business partners and customers
  • Websense Email Archive: Gives employees unlimited mailbox size for archived Outlook or Notes email, plus accelerates e-discovery by letting you easily search and retrieve messages within seconds

Companies looking for basic email security installed on-premise.

Deployment options include:

  • Software on-premise, with the Websense V5000™ appliance
  • OR
  • Software on-premise, with Websense software installed on local servers

Email security feature comparison

Feature Websense Email Security (WES) Cloud Email Security (HES) Email Security Gateway (ESG) Email Security Gateway
Anywhere (ESGA)
Deployment model Software Cloud Appliance Hybrid
Websense Advanced Classification Engine
- Antivirus ++
- Antispam and antiphishing
- URL and reputation filters
Websense Image Analysis*
TLS encryption
Websense Advanced Email Encryption*
Websense Email Archive*
Websense Discovery Archive*
Websense Email Continuity*
Deep content filtering for DLP
Websense TruEmail DLP™
Spam filtering in the cloud
Websense TruHybrid™
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Managed through Websense TRITON console
*Optional Add-On