Re: [SAGE] Websense implementations on Linux

["Nathan Hruby" <nhruby@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 10, 2008 11:58 AM, Brian Landers <brian+usenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone on this list have experience with running Websense on
> Linux or Solaris? My preference is to not bring another 10+ Windows
> boxes into our environment to manage, but I need some ammunition to
> reassure the bosses.

I mentioned doing our websense on Linux once.  The idea got shot down quickly.

I also posit that:
- the kind of people who like websense tend to be large corporate
types, who tend to run windows as their main platform and are still
"unsure about this whole Linux thing"
- the kind of people who have the competency to roll out websense on
Linux are also the kind of people who would tend to think squidguard
or dansguardian were equally as good, considering the cost [1]
- the kinds of services websense provides are now staring to be
integrated into multi-purpose network appliances (eg: Fortinet
firewalls) which makes paying for a websense deployment a lot harder
to swallow [1]

So, I'm not surprised that your websense contacts don't see a lot of
linux deployments.

-n

[1] - when considering the security aspects of wensense only.  I'm not
sure there's a lot else out there that does the kind of "Big Brother"
reporting on people's browsing habits that websense does.  Since most
people savvy enough to deploy websense on linux, I would think,
consider the Big Brother aspect rather onerous, using something else
without those features has "additional benefits." :)
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