Websense has unveiled a global network of adaptive security technologies and processes designed to continuously monitor the Internet for changes and emerging threats. The resulting intelligence is immediately incorporated into the company's Web security, messaging security and data loss prevention solutions. As a result, organizations can advance their objectives using the Internet as a business platform while managing risks to their essential information, systems and employees.

The New Websense® ThreatSeeker(TM) Network, which features the world's first "Internet HoneyGrid(TM)" melds both honeypots and advanced grid computing systems to parse through more than one billion pieces of content daily, searching for security threats. The new system uses more than 50 million real-time data collecting systems worldwide to monitor and to classify Web, messaging and data content -- giving Websense visibility into the state of content on the Internet.

According to a recent IDC study, two-thirds of organizations are currently using at least one Web 2.0 application. But using these emerging technologies without effective security could be disastrous. In a January 2008 IDC report, Program Vice President Chris Christiansen wrote that "Web 2.0 and Business 2.0 applications and communities will become a major source of identity fraud, privacy violations, and corporate data loss."