Websense Selects Image-Analyzer

Websense announced last week that they selected Image-Analyzer, a company that has a product with the ability scan images and determine their appropriateness for the corporate or organization, essentially another layer of protection for those companies that block pornography.

Right now, it's just an announcement of a partnership, but the eventual goal for Websense is to include the technology in their Triton solution. There's no date for when this will be accomplished yet, so stay tuned.

Image analysis technology isn't new, it's been around for a while, and this company in particular has been in existence since 2005. The reason technology like this hasn't gotten more traction in the past has been the latency involved in scanning images, as well as what has traditionally been extremely high false positive rates. It remains to be seen how Websense handles these issues when they integrate image analysis into their product.