WEBSENSE REPORTING TOOLS

Websense Reporting Tools provide organizations with mission-critical information for identifying, analyzing, and reporting on internet activity. Included at no extra charge with all Websense products, Reporting Tools help identify risks related to network security, legal liability, productivity, and bandwidth loss. Reporting Tools' monitoring and reporting capabilities offer real-time and historical views of internet usage and provide organizations with the information they need to effectively reduce the many risks associated with their computing activities.

Websense Reporting Tools

Websense Explorer – Provides interactive, drill-down analysis and reporting of internet and application use.

Websense Reporter – Generates internet and application use reports, instantly or scheduled, based on pre-set templates or custom reports.

Websense Real-Time Analyzer™ – Graphically displays a snapshot of real-time network activity and quickly answers important network-related questions.

Identifying Risk Areas

Websense Reporting Tools help your organization address such questions as:

• Are users creating a security risk by visiting websites that secretly install malicious mobile code or spyware?

• How much network bandwidth is being consumed by users swapping files over peer-to-peer file sharing networks?

• Are users inside or outside of the network spending too much of their work time at non-work related sites and could any of these sites expose the organization to legal liability?

Key Features of Websense Reporting Tools

Ease-of-Use

Websense Reporting Tools' interactive point-and-click reporting and powerful drill-down capabilities allow non-technical and technical personnel to easily access the information they need.

• Provide increased visibility of network activities and risks to those responsible for individual areas through role-based reporting.

• Choose from a variety of standard reports, included with your Websense product, that provide the most frequently-used network activity categories and tailor them to meet your reporting needs.

• Create your own reports by saving a set of criteria as a "Favorite" for future use.

• Customize how you see your organization's data with flexible detail views.

• View all outliers or individual user activity by day or by month.

Breadth of Reporting Options
Websense Reporting Tools provide a variety of options to help you get the information you need.
• Identify the risks to your organization categorized in Security Risk, Legal Liability,
Productivity Loss, Network Bandwidth Loss, and Business Usage risk classes.
• Choose from Trend, Management, Detail, and Summary report formats.
• Drill down into data views and customize reports to show detailed information on selected users or workstations, dates, categories, applications, and more.
• Display multiple dimensions simultaneously for comparison or additional details.
• Role-based reporting allows the interface to change dynamically based on user reporting profiles.

Flexible Report Generation and Distribution Options
Websense Reporting Tools enable you to determine report timing, file formats, and distribution.
• Schedule standard and user-defined "Favorite" reports to run a single time or at daily, weekly, or monthly intervals.
• Establish reporting intervals based on relative dates, specific dates, or all dates.
• Export results into multiple file formats for further analysis or printing.
• Email reports automatically to specified individuals.

Immediate Information Availability
Websense Reporting Tools give you access to real-time data from any web browser.
• Determine the effectiveness of filtering policies and track their progress immediately.
• Discover internet usage trends by risk class, request status, and protocol traffic.
• Monitor the overall health of your system and of Websense filtering.

Privacy Protection
Websense offers the reporting flexibility you need to enforce your acceptable-use policies while
balancing those with your organization's culture and business processes.
• Ensure only those with the appropriate authority have access to information.
• Generate data views and reports with or without names or internet protocol (IP) addresses to
ensure compliance with corporate or national privacy policies, union regulations, or related local laws.