BLUECOAT

Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions.BlueCoat offers solutions that provide the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere.
This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and enhance the end-user Web experience.

 Blue Coat products

• ProxySG
• MACH5
• PacketShaper
• CacheFlow
• Web Security Module
• K9 Web Security

ProxySG

The industry-leading secure web gateway.

Get world-class threat protection backed by Blue Coat’s real-time WebPulse technology and more than 75 million users.  ProxySG provides complete control over all your web traffic with robust features that include user authentication, web filtering, data loss prevention, inspection and validation of SSL-encrypted traffic, content caching, bandwidth management, stream-splitting and more.

MACH5

 Appliances combine protocol acceleration, compression, object and byte caching and QoS to help accelerate key applications such as file access, email, web, storage replication and backup. For advanced applications, MACH5 integrates specialized live and on-demand video optimization for Adobe Flash, Windows Media, Silverlight, HTML5 and all video. MACH5 cloud-caching engines enable faster SaaS application access with no impact to the cloud infrastructure.

PacketShaper

PacketShaper gives you content-aware control of today’s web-integrated WAN. Prioritize important applications like Oracle and SAP. Assure quality for VoIP and videoconferencing. Contain recreational traffic to any level you specify. PacketShaper’s unique integration of application and web content intelligence gives you the x-ray vision needed to monitor today’s network traffic, and enforces your rules with priority, partition and rate control technologies.

PacketShaper analyzes and positively identifies traffic generated by hundreds of business and recreational applications.

CacheFlow

Faster performance. Half the bandwidth.
The Blue Coat CacheFlow appliance is a high-performance web caching solution designed to help service providers save significantly on bandwidth and accelerate the delivery of rich Web 2.0 content, including video. CacheFlow easily scales to support more users and greater traffic volumes over time, plus provides built-in tools for web traffic reporting and filtering to protect users.

With CacheFlow, you don’t have to keep buying expensive bandwidth to meet performance goals. Using CacheFlow, you can dramatically cut infrastructure costs and deliver a more responsive web experience.

And with the patent-pending CachePulse technology, customers can be confident the CacheFlow solution will sustain high bandwidth savings and user experience gains over the long haul. CachePulse tracks the ever-changing web, so as new sites emerge or popular sites change how they deliver content, new caching rules and instruction updates are automatically delivered from the CachePulse cloud to the CacheFlow appliance.

Web Security Module

On-demand web security.
The Web Security Module for the Blue Coat Cloud Service is a scalable, Internet-delivered service that gives IT administrators all the benefits of real-time security without the need to update appliances, servers or user desktops. This security service leverages Blue Coat’s proven security technology and WebPulse collaborative defense of over 75 million users to provide comprehensive protection against web-based threats for all users regardless of location.

With detailed, customizable reporting that provides visibility into web traffic and granular web application and operation controls, IT administrators have actionable intelligence to instantly create and apply new policies to all users, including roaming workers on external networks. Just as important, the Blue Coat Cloud Service identifies and categorizes new web content in real time with 99+% accuracy. And rest assured, knowing that the Blue Coat Cloud Service is backed by our guaranteed 99.999% uptime agreement.

K9 Web Protection

• Blue Coat K9 Web Protection gives home users and families a whole new arsenal in the fight against adult content and malware —
• Whether you want to protect your kids or yourself, K9 Web Protection provides enterprise-class protection from pornography and other adult content on the Internet.
• In addition, K9 delivers comprehensive anti-malware protection automatically. That means you don’t have to wait for the latest security patch or upgrade, which can leave your computer vulnerable to fast-moving web threats.
• K9 uses Blue Coat WebPulse, the same advanced web filtering technology used by enterprise and government institutions worldwide — all with a user-friendly interface that allows you to control Internet use in your home.

K9 delivers:

• Web filtering that enables you to block entire categories of content, such as pornography or gambling
• Real-time malware protection that blocks illegal or malicious content
• Automatic content ratings that identify the category of an unrated web page
• Customized policies to allow or block any specific web site, such as Facebook or YouTube
• Caching technology that delivers continuous protection without impacting Internet performance
• Available for Windows, Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod)