The first fruits ofWebsense'spurchase last year of Surfcontrol and PortAuthority were
evident as the malware scanner launched itsThreatseeker Honeygridweb and email
scanning service.
The Honeygrid Network offers a tenfold increase over Websense's
previous offering, Websense said. It now uses more than 50 million
real-time data collecting systems worldwide to monitor and to
classify Web, messaging and data content.
Dan Hubbard, Websense's vice-president for security and
technology, told Computer Weekly the Honeygrid Network uses both
honeypots and advanced grid computing systems to parse more than
one billion pieces of content daily to find security threats.
The new system also includes new technology to test the
trustworthiness of networks, domains, Web 2.0 sites and structured
and unstructured data, he said.
The new system uses content classification and data
identification with binary, lexical and statistical analysis along
with heuristics, image recognition, machine learning, pattern
detection, natural language processing and data 'fingerprinting',
he said.
Websense's 'Honeyclients' mine and analyse more than 100 million
web sites daily, and more than 50 million real-time data collecting
systems parse a billion pieces of content daily, he said.