ZSCALER’S ADVANTAGES OVER WEBSENSE
SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE AND
SCALABILITY
With Zscaler, you get a single solution with the
industry’s most advanced web and mobile security,
with no hardware or software required. And with
Zscaler’s cloud architecture, you can secure branch
offices and road warriors without backhauling
traffic to a central location, potentially saving your
organization millions of dollars each year. This
section contrasts the performance and scalability
of Zscaler Cloud Security Platform with security
solutions from Websense (now Forcepoint).
Zscaler has the largest global
cloud footprint, with more than 100
enforcement nodes in 30 countries.
– “Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways,” Gartner
28 May 2015
Built for performance
Unlike appliance vendors that are now “moving
into the cloud,” the Zscaler cloud platform was
built in the cloud and today is comprised of
more than 100 data centers spread out around
the world—at least four times as many as any
other vendor on the planet. Traffic generated by
Zscaler customers is intelligently routed to the
nearest cloud-based point of presence. Zscaler
can therefore combine ultra-fast processing with
patented compression technology to deliver the
industry’s most advanced security with near-zero
latency. Since Zscaler never impacts the user’s
web browsing experience, IT doesn’t need to worry
about users attempting to bypass your security
measures to improve performance.
Websense/Forcepoint offers both appliancebased gateway solutions and hybrid solutions
that combine enterprise-based appliances with
cloud-based solutions in “Websense TruHybrid
Deployments,” which Websense defines as, “Mixed
appliance/cloud deployment(s) enabling cloud for
remote or small offices and appliances for main
locations, plus cloud as failover for appliances.”
There are hundreds of companies offering some
form of IT security. The difference is that Zscaler is
a pure cloud solution that requires no hardware or
software. Unlike appliances from our competitors
that are static and sit at the server or corporate
network, Zscaler is built from the ground up to
enable web, mobility, and cloud applications for
business. Enterprises can avoid the performance
degradation of appliances by relying on the Zscaler
Cloud Security Platform.
Enterprise-class scalability
While Websense solutions burden the customer
with deploying, maintaining, and upgrading
appliances, Zscaler is transforming enterprise
networking and security with the world’s
largest cloud security platform, which securely
enables the benefits of cloud, mobile, and social
technologies without the cost and complexity
of traditional on-premises appliances and
software. Scaling is a function of the cloud
infrastructure, not of the enterprise IT resources.
Your organization can become more agile and
scale your security resources more nimbly with
the Zscaler platform. Zscaler has more than 5,000
enterprise cloud security customers in over 180
countries, and offers customer lists, case studies,
and videos you can sort by vertical markets and
geographic regions on the Zscaler Customer page,
so you can find companies similar to yours and
learn more about their experiences growing their
security infrastructure with Zscaler.
ZSCALER’S ADVANTAGES OVER WEBSENSE
Backed by measurable SLAs
Unless there are real consequences for failing
to meet a service-level agreement (SLA), an SLA
is merely a best-effort intention. Zscaler offers
documented SLAs for both availability and
latency with stated financial penalties—next
month’s service credit—if Zscaler fails to meet
its obligations. Websense offers a 100% SLA for
protection from known viruses with subscription
to its cloud anti-virus service and offers 99.999
percent minimum availability SLA for its Hosted
Email Security Service and 99% spam detection
for its Websense Cloud Platform, but otherwise
doesn’t even seem to make significant reference
to the need for SLAs on its public website.
A non-relational data store optimized for logging
and reporting, NanoLog is purpose-built with 65:1
compression to allow IT organizations to quickly
analyze massive log histories such as web page
downloads, web mails, and attachments sent, posts
published on social networking sites, or instant
messaging transcripts—all in just seconds. This
unique capability brings together massive logs from
various locations to a central logging server for easy
reporting and analysis, while sophisticated indexing
technology fetches detailed historical information.
Mobile-based apps
Cloud-based apps
SUPERIOR FUNCTIONALITY
Social media
CLOUD SERVICES
Zscaler offers several key advantages over
Websense solutions, including the following:
Reporting
Websense offers separate user interfaces (UIs)
for its appliances and cloud services, forcing the
enterprise to learn two UIs to manage and develop
reports on Websense solutions. Meanwhile, Zscaler
offers true real-time reporting and dashboard
analytics, enabling users to interact with data in
real time. Zscaler’s patented NanoLog technology
is an entirely new kind of web logging, reporting,
and analytics application built from the ground up
to address today’s Big Data challenges.
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Authentication
Both Zscaler and Websense support single signon (SSO) authentication using local databases,
LDAP, SAML, and Active Directory, but Websense
lacks support for Active Directory Federation
Services (ADFS). Zscaler supports ADFS, a software
component developed by Microsoft that can be
installed on Windows Server operating systems
to provide users with SSO access to systems
and applications located across organizational
boundaries. It uses a claims-based access control
authorization model to maintain application security
and implement federated identity management.
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