Blue Coat
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., founded in 1996, (NASDAQ: BCSI) is a publicly-held company based in Sunnyvale, California. Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimize security and accelerate performance for all users and applications.
All of this functionality is complemented by powerful management and reporting tools that make it fast and easy to deploy, configure and administer Blue Coat appliances and technology throughout the distributed enterprise.
Blue Coat appliances come in a broad range of configurations and are typically deployed in enterprise branch offices, internet gateways, data centers, PCs and global service provider organisations.
Blue Coat and Proofpoint partner to make available a comprehensive security solution
Blue Coat® ProxySG Appliances
Blue Coat SG appliances establish points of control to secure Web communications and accelerate business applications for users across the distributed enterprise.
Delivered as a rack-mountable appliance for simple installation and management, Blue Coat SG is offered in a wide range of sizes and configurations appropriate for remote / branch offices, Internet gateways, data centres, and global service providers. Blue Coat’s product portfolio includes powerful reporting, policy and configuration management software – delivering a scalable proxy solution for centralised or distributed enterprise environments.
Blue Coat® ProxyAV Appliances
The Blue CoatAV appliances give organisations the ability to scan for viruses, worms and trojans entering through Web-based backdoors including:
- Personal Web email accounts where a majority of viruses and worms propagate
- Web spam or email spam which unknowingly activate trojan downloads
- Browser based file downloads that bypass existing virus scanning defenses
The Blue Coat AV combined with the Blue Coat SG provides scalability for virus scanning, plus complete visibility and control of enterprise Web communications.
Blue Coat® ProxyRA Appliances
Blue Coat RA appliances enable organisations to extend rich application connectivity with integrated endpoint security to remote employees, partners and customers. A single solution for both corporate-owned and unmanaged devices, Blue Coat RA appliances leverage the industry’s only application-independent proxy architecture and patent-pending Connector technology to provide:
- On-demand access to Web and non-Web applications without the installation of VPN client software
- Comprehensive support for unmanaged endpoints (such as partner desktops and home PCs) without ever requiring local admin rights and including features to block inadvertent or malicious information leakage
- Integrated endpoint security services, such as host integrity checking and automatic spyware identification and suppression
Blue Coat RA represents the next generation of SSL VPNs that provides a single mode solution with integrated endpoint security and information protection features.
WebFilter
Blue Coat WebFilter is an industry-leading enterprise and service provider URL filtering database and hosted service made relevant and accurate by a world-wide WebPulse ecosystem with over 100M user requests per day for new ratings. By analysing web site content, forms, links, originating URLs and web reputation scores, WebFilter provides comprehensive coverage of spyware, malware, MMC, viruses, Trojans, botnets, phishing and other forms of malware and fraud, as well as offensive and non-productive web activity.
Reporter
Blue Coat Report provides comprehensive, identity-based reporting on Web communications, enabling enterprises to evaluate web policies and manage network resources more effectively.
Director
Blue Coat Director enables policy, configuration and device management for Blue Coat appliances. Built as a management appliance, Director reduces managment cost and complexity by providing centralized management of Blue Coat appliances across the distributed, global enterprise.
SG Client
Blue Coat SG Client extends appliation delviery to mobile users and small branch pffices, enabling application acceleration to the desktop. SG Client offers several acceleration and optimization techniques to provide a LAN-like end-user experience for telecommuters, mobile employees, remote third party contractors and others who need access to internal or hosted resources but are potentially thousands of miles away.