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Volume 1

February 2016

FORCEPOINT BRINGS FRESH APPROACH TO SAFEGUARDING USERS, DATA AND
NETWORKS FROM INSIDER AND OUTSIDER THREATS
Global cybersecurity leader Raytheon|Websense today
unveiled its new company name, Forcepoint™ , and multiple
new products. Built on the successful integration of
Websense®, Raytheon Cyber Products and the recentlyacquired Stonesoft next-generation firewall (NGFW)
business, Forcepoint brings a fresh approach to address the
constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges and regulatory
requirements facing businesses and government agencies.
Forcepoint was created to empower organizations to drive
their business forward by safely embracing transformative
technologies – cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and
others – through a unified, cloud-centric platform that
safeguards users, networks and data while eliminating the
inefficiencies involved in managing a collection of point
security products. The Forcepoint platform will protect
against threats from insiders and outsiders, rapidly detect
breaches, minimize “dwell time” – the period between compromise and remediation – and stop theft.
“With Forcepoint, organizations can protect users, networks and data in the cloud, on the road, and in the office. We simplify compliance, enable better
decision-making and streamline security so that our customers can concentrate on what’s important to them,” said Forcepoint CEO, John McCormack.
“We will provide a unified cloud-centric platform to defend against attacks, detect suspicious activity sooner, and give the context needed to decide what
actions to take to defeat the attack and stop data theft. Defend, detect, decide, defeat – this is our vision for Forcepoint 4D Security. We have the
expertise, financial commitment and ongoing access to unique, defense-grade security technology necessary to deliver on this vision.”
“A platform solution that both simplifies and strengthens security as part of a holistic strategy that includes people, process and technology is a far more
compelling value proposition than a simple point solution,” said Dan Wilson, Executive Vice President of Partner Solutions for Optiv, a market-leading
provider of end-to-end cyber security solutions.
“Forcepoint’s platform focuses on insider threat protection, cloud data protection and network security. We’re seeing clients ask for these capabilities
and are excited to see how Forcepoint delivers.”
Stone sof t & Sid ew inde r Acqui si ti ons
Forcepoint finalized the acquisition of the Stonesoft next-generation firewall and Sidewinder proxy firewall technologies and teams from Intel Security in
January 2016. These technologies will expand the cloud and hybrid capabilities of the industry-leading Forcepoint TRITON® security platform. Terms of
the transactions were not disclosed.
Prod uct Announcem ents
As part of the company debut, Forcepoint is launching three new products to address insider threats, cloud-based protection of Microsoft Office 365™
and best-in-class, massively distributed, next-generation network security.
• Inside r Threa t De te ctio n
Forcepoint’s new SureView® Insider Threat 8.0 gives customers an early warning system, automatically identifying the riskiest users within an
organization, based on their behaviors as well as on information received from TRITON AP-DATA, Forcepoint’s data loss prevention (DLP) solution.
SureView Insider Threat gathers and provides rich context around user behaviors, including record and playback of user activities before, during
and after risky behaviors.
• Cloud-ba se d Protectio n of Of fic e 365
With the move of enterprise applications to the cloud, data must be protected everywhere. The Forcepoint TRITON platform is now natively hosted
in Microsoft Azure™, enforcing DLP for Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365, directly from Microsoft’s own cloud. Forcepoint’s TRITON security

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