Websense Web Security can be deployed on the RSP, a virtualized, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers. By installing Websense Web Security software on Riverbed Steelhead appliances, organizations can consolidate WAN and Web security deployments, making their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive, and more secure. Customers can deploy these virtualized appliances, with services such as Websense Web Security, to further simplify IT infrastructure at branch and remote offices to reduce costs and operational overhead.

Riverbed Steelhead appliance customers will have the flexibility to deploy Websense Web Security as "on premise" software, as a fully hosted service for remote workers, or, in an anticipated future release, through a hybrid hosted "software-as-a-service" model. This flexibility will allow joint customers to leverage the power of software-as-a-service (SaaS) to deploy Web security "in the cloud" for branch offices and remote users with Websense Hosted Web Security quickly and cost-effectively.