Web security and WAN optimisation

Riverbed Technology has combined with Websense to offer enterprise customers web security on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP). The Websense Web Security can be deployed on the RSP, a virtualised, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers.

By installing Websense Web Security software on Riverbed Steelhead appliances, organisations can consolidate WAN and web security deployments, making their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more secure. These virtualised appliances, with services such as Websense Web Security, further simplify IT infrastructure at branch and remote offices to reduce costs and operational overhead.

Riverbed Steelhead appliance customers will have the flexibility to deploy Websense Web Security as ‘on premise’ software, as a fully hosted service for remote workers or, in an future release, through a hybrid hosted ‘software-as-a-service’ model. This flexibility should allow joint customers to leverage the power of software-as-a-service (SaaS) to deploy web security ‘in the cloud’ for branch offices and remote users.