Blue Coat Advances Hybrid Secure Web Gateway Solution

Blue Coat Systems, a technology player in Application Delivery Networking, is expanding its hybrid Secure Web Gateway solution with new Blue Coat ProxySG Series and ProxyAV Series appliances, new cloud-based defenses in the Blue Coat WebPulse service and extended remote user protection through Blue Coat ProxyClient software. These new additions include:

* Blue Coat ProxySG 9000 Series appliances
* Blue Coat ProxyAV 1400 and 2400 Series appliances for high performance inline malware scanning
* Enhanced security checks for Web-based threats in the ProxySG family of appliances
* Extensible custom filtering for Blue Coat ProxyClient software
* Additional defenses against Web-based threats added to the Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service

The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution is a scalable, hybrid architecture that combines ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances with ProxyClient software and the cloud-based WebPulse service to provide Web awareness and on-demand intelligence about the latest Web threats across the extended enterprise at a lower total cost of ownership.

Performance Scalability without Compromise

The new Blue Coat ProxySG 9000 and ProxyAV 1400 and 2400 appliances connect to the WebPulse collaborative cloud defense service to obtain threat intelligence and Web awareness. Additionally, the ProxySG 9000 appliances support a full Gigabit per second of throughput when deployed in high availability configurations. With these advances, the ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances can each scale to support enterprises with 250 to 60,000 users on a single appliance.

Blue Coat has also significantly advanced the threat analysis capabilities in its Secure Gateway Operating System (SGOS) version 5.5, enabling in-depth scanning of suspicious attachments, including compressed files, without compromising performance.

Extensible Management Simplifies Policy Control and Reporting

The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution provides centralised device, licence and policy management, simplifying the creation and administration of global IT security policies across the extended enterprise. Security administrators can easily replicate and export policies through the intuitive visual policy manager in Blue Coat Director and make policy changes across the extended enterprise through secure remote access to the management console.

With the addition of identity-based filtering to ProxyClient, the Blue Coat security and application acceleration client software, security administrators can set, enforce and report on unique policies for remote users. This extension of custom filtering policies to remote users delivers protection against Web-based threats and enables compliance, reporting and visibility across the enterprise.

Cloud-Based Defense Eliminates Upgrade Cycles

To enable enterprises to keep pace with today’s continually evolving Web-based threat landscape, Blue Coat has added new defenses and enhancements into the WebPulse service, including custom script analysers, sandboxing, third party feeds, machine analysis and Web correlation tools that provide security intelligence for human raters to validate new Web threats and content. With these new defenses, Blue Coat combines Web intelligence and expertise with advanced malware detection technologies to identify Web 2.0 threats that utilise dynamic link chains across multiple websites to evade detection.