Wave Report

The Forrester Wave™: Web Filtering, Q2 2009

Websense And McAfee/Secure Computing Lead, With Trend Micro, Cisco, Symantec/MessageLabs, And McAfee Trailing As Strong Performers

April 16th, 2009
Chenxi Wang, null
Chenxi Wang
With contributors:
Allison Viglianti , Robert Whiteley III

Summary

Forrester evaluated leading Web filtering technology vendors across 53 criteria and found that Websense and McAfee/Secure Computing lead the pack because of their broad functionality and focused strategy vision. Trend Micro, Cisco Systems, Symantec/MessageLabs, and McAfee are Strong Performers but fall short in certain areas of technology. Google, Marshal8e6, Microsoft, and Symantec lack either strong capability or cohesive vision, and trail the field.

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