Websense Wireless recently announced the launch of a novel software, which is claimed to allow the wireless operators and service suppliers to make available best-of-the-breed security features to give protection to both end-users and the network from pernicious internet-borne content and to stick on to regulatory, industry and government regulations developed to defend minors from inapt and unwanted Internet content.
The latest software - the Websense Wireless URL Categorisation Engine - claims to enable operators to raise revenue streams by installing value-added services like first-class content offerings for subscribers, customised parental controls, updated wireless security identification offerings, plus mobile advertising and marketing capabilities.
The Websense Wireless URL Categorisation Engine makes use of Websense technology that gathers URLs from Internet sites and categorizes them. Founding upon the content filters deployed with the individual wireless service supplier, right to use Internet sites can be permitted, stopped, or made available just subsequent to a ‘continue’ option is provided to the subscriber. Wireless operators, or their subscribers, are enabled to set filtering policies for over 90 categories of Web sites, starting from adult content to spyware.
