Websense Grew to 49.6% of the Web Filtering Market Share in 2005

The San Diego, California-based web security and web filtering productivity software provider Websense has revealed via a press release that its share of the web filtering market for 2005 has grown to almost 50%, with a 25% advantage over the runner up. The announcement was catalyzed by the July 2006 Gartner Dataquest report "Market Share: URL Filtering, Worldwide, 2005," by Nicole S. Latimer-Livingston. The report indicates that Websense is on a continuous ascendant trend that has ensured its position of global leader in the market segment. The results reported by Gartner are based on the revenue generated by the Web filtering market the previous year.

Websense's share of the market accounted for a revenue of $148.6 million as the company experienced a 33% increase over 2004. The market also jumped 23.6% compared to 2004 and has totaled revenue of $300 million.

"Websense provides a critical layer of web security that closes gaps left by traditional security solutions by proactively searching for and blocking new and emerging threats, delivering the most powerful protection to more than 24 million people worldwide," said Leo Cole, vice president of marketing, Websense. "We believe the Gartner report indicates Websense is not giving up any of its hard-earned market share; instead, the company is driving the market forward and delivering unique security solutions to resellers and their clients."