Cybersecurity vendor Raytheon|Websense has unveiled its new name, Forcepoint, which will build on its recent acquisition of Stonesoft next-generation firewall (NGFW) business from Intel.
The rebrand comes as the firm attempts to address what it says are the “constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges and regulatory requirements facing businesses and government agencies.”
Forcepoint CEO, John McCormack says the new company 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.”
Andy Philpott, SVP sales for EMEA at Forcepoint, told Channel Pro that the firm has more to offer the market and the channel, hence the move away from the old Websense brand. With Raytheon and Stonesoft products under its wing, ForcePoint would be focused on what it calls “4D security”, which stands for ‘detect, defend, decide and defeat’.
“We are looking at relentlessly protecting end users throughout the threat lifecycle,” he says. “The exciting piece about this is that we have got the technology that has a tremendous depth of backing in terms of innovation.
“We have the power in terms of the heritage of the company and the power of a large financial business backing us.”
He continues: “We have a very loyal channel in Websense, we have spent the last couple of years enhancing what we already had. The excitement coming from the channel is that they are able to sell more technologies to their customers from a single vendor in Forcepoint.”
The firm also made a number of new product announcements – the first being its new SureView Insider Threat early warning system that automatically identifies the riskiest users within an organisation, as well as information received from Forcepoint’s data loss prevention solution.
The second product launched its cloud-based protection for Microsoft Office 365 using Forcepoint’s Triton platform, natively hosted in Microsoft Azure. The platform enforces consistent policy across the cloud, on premise and at endpoints, providing a hybrid defence for distributed and mobile organisations.
The last builds on the Stonesoft acquisition, and will see the NGFW delivered as a product providing visibility, responsiveness and policy enforcement across hundreds or thousands of locations with a single management console.
