RSA Joins Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner Programme

Blue Coat Systems, a player in the WAN application delivery and secure Web gateway space, has announced that RSA, the security division of EMC, has joined the Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner Programme. As part of the programme, Blue Coat has certified interoperability between the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Network and Blue Coat ProxySG appliances. This interoperable solution will enable enterprises to monitor and control network data and enforce policies that are engineered to proactively prevent traffic, including SSL-encrypted traffic, from leaving the network.

To ensure that sensitive data does not escape the corporate network, the solution monitors and blocks data leaving through Web-based applications or as SSL-encrypted traffic. RSA DLP Network, part of the RSA DLP Suite, is designed to identify sensitive information and act accordingly, based on a set of established policies that can be customised to apply customers’ specific security drivers. Blue Coat ProxySG appliances decrypt SSL traffic and pass the decrypted content to RSA DLP Network for analysis. By making encrypted traffic visible to the RSA DLP Network, ProxySG appliances eliminate a source of potential data leaks that could expose the organisation to financial losses.

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Blue Coat ProxySG appliances further protect against data loss by acting as an enforcement point. With ProxySG appliances, organisations can set and enforce access privileges based on a wide range of attributes such as user, application, location, destination and content to align security policies with corporate priorities. With visibility into encrypted traffic, ProxySG appliances also enable enterprises to apply security and control measures to SSL-encrypted traffic.

“Effective compliance with privacy and other regulations requires not just monitoring all types of data transactions on the network but also being able to proactively prevent the data from leaving the network,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Blue Coat Systems. “Blue Coat and RSA can now deliver an interoperable solution that provides visibility into the traffic and is designed to enforce corporate policies that prevent sensitive data from leaving the network.”