Websense Incorporated (WBSN)

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Websense, Inc. provides integrated Web, data, and email security solutions. The company offers Web filtering and security, data loss prevention (DLP), and email anti-spam and security solutions that protect organizations? employees and critical business data from external Web-based and email-based attacks, as well as from internal employee-generated threats, such as employee errors or malfeasance. Its portfolio of Web filtering, Web security, DLP, and email anti-spam and messaging security software allows organizations to prevent access to undesirable and dangerous elements on the Web, such as Web sites that contain inappropriate content or sites that download viruses, spyware, keyloggers, and malicious code; identify and remove malicious applications from incoming Web traffic; filter ?spam? out of incoming email traffic; filter viruses and other malicious attachments from email and instant messages; manage the use of non-Web Internet traffic, such as peer-to-peer communications and instant messaging; prevent the unauthorized use and loss of sensitive data, such as customer or employee information; and control misuse of an organization?s valuable computing resources, including unauthorized downloading of high-bandwidth content. The company?s customers use its software products to provide a secure and productive computing environment for employees, business partners, and customers. It sells its products to customers primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. The company was formerly known as NetPartners Internet Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to Websense, Inc. to reflect the shift in its business focus to a developer of Web filtering solutions. Websense, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.