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WEBSENSE: OMNIAMERICAN BANK PUTS ITS TRUST IN WEBSENSE

Financial Services Institution Protects Customer Data and Improves Business Practices With Websense Data Security Suite

/noticias.info/ SAN DIEGO, CA, May 22, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) today announced that OmniAmerican Bank, a leading full-service financial institution in Texas, is using Websense(R) Data Security Suite(TM) to protect its essential information from inbound security threats and outbound data loss.

"Websense Data Security Suite gives us deep visibility into how information is used within our organization so we can apply the right protection policies to our sensitive and regulated data," said Matt Tucker, vice president of IT at OmniAmerican Bank. "It has also helped us meet compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards and helps us better protect our customers and their personal information."

OmniAmerican Bank, with 17 branch locations, began by using Websense Data Security Suite for monitoring only, to gain a greater understanding of who is using sensitive data, what data they are accessing, where they are sending it and through which channels. After being alerted to suspicious activity earlier this year that revealed an attempt to compromise customer data, OmniAmerican Bank accelerated their plans to upgrade the solution and begin using the enforcement capabilities within Websense Data Security Suite. Today, the data loss prevention solution proactively protects customer information such as account data and social security numbers by stopping policy violations before they can occur.

"Websense Data Security Suite allowed us to discover exactly where sensitive data exists in our environment and identify if any one employee had too much access to confidential information, which could create a greater risk for data loss," explained Monty Johnson, security administrator, OmniAmerican Bank. "Because it alerts employees if they have violated a policy by accidentally attempting to misuse data, Websense Data Security Suite actually reinforces better business practices with our staff. The number of data security incidents has decreased because employees have learned the correct policies to follow when it comes to handling confidential data."

Monitoring confidential data in motion as it is sent through communication channels including email, instant messaging and Web mail was paramount to OmniAmerican Bank. With Websense Data Security Suite, the bank is able to control sensitive data in motion by automatically routing it to an encryption gateway, quarantining the communication or blocking the action completely.

"For financial services institutions some of the most valuable corporate assets are customer and regulated information," said Leo Cole, vice president of marketing at Websense. "By using Websense Data Security Suite, OmniAmerican Bank has adopted a data-centric security approach that proactively protects its customers' information and its corporate data from both internal and external threats." notas_de_prensa_archivo