V-Series Overview

The Websense® V-Series™ appliance analyzes and filters Web traffic, email traffic, or both in real time. You determine the security configuration for the appliance when you first boot it and run the firstboot script. The configuration you choose affects the options available in the Appliance Manager.

Websense V10000™ G2 appliances can run:

Websense Web Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense Email Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense Web Security Gateway (Anywhere) and Websense Email Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense Web Security (no Content Gateway proxy) and Websense Email Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense V5000™ G2 appliances can run:

Websense Web Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense Web Security

Websense Email Security Gateway (Anywhere)

Websense Web Security and Websense Email Security Gateway (Anywhere)

It is possible to change the security configuration of an appliance by restoring it to its factory image. After reimaging, during firstboot, you can select a different configuration. For more details on how to do this, see the V-Series Appliance Getting Started Guide.

If your subscription includes Web Security Gateway, the appliance:

Instantly categorizes new sites and dynamic content, proactively discovering security risks, and blocking malware.

Provides advanced analytics—including rules, signatures, heuristics, and application behaviors—to detect and block proxy avoidance, hacking sites, adult content, botnets, keyloggers, phishing attacks, spyware, and many other types of unsafe content.

Closes a common security gap: decrypting and scanning SSL traffic before it enters the network.

These real-time capabilities on the V-Series appliance integrate with industry-leading Websense Web Security software to provide Web filtering with over 90 default URL categories and control of more than 150 network protocols and applications.

Software on the appliance can be linked with Websense Data Security solutions, to give data security software access to both Master Database URL categorization and user information collected by Websense Web filtering services.

Software on the appliance can also be synchronized with Websense hybrid Web filtering, an on-demand, cloud-based service, to apply your organization's policies to off-site users, or to branch offices, remote campuses, and so on.

If your subscription includes Email Security Gateway, the appliance:

Scans and filters incoming email messages to block spam or virus content.

Provides a hybrid solution that allows the bulk of spam content to be filtered out before the messages reach your network.

Integrates with Websense Data Security solutions to help you monitor and restrict transmission of sensitive or inappropriate information via email.

If your subscription includes Web Security (no Content Gateway proxy), the appliance:

Helps reduce the risks that come with unauthorized applications by offering advanced application controls

Protects organizations from malicious and inappropriate content with continuous security updates approximately every 5 minutes.

If your subscription includes both Web Security and Email Security Gateway or Web Security Gateway (Anywhere) and Email Security Gateway (Anywhere), you receive the benefits of both solutions in a single appliance.