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Proxy Solutions to Control Web Communications and protect enterprises from web-based threats.

As organisations grow increasingly dependent on the Internet to communicate with customers, partners and employees, the Web browser is fast becoming the universal window into mission-critical communications and information. When every user on the network has a Web browser, every user also has the means to negatively affect the network infrastructure-whether intentionally or not. Despite their ability to help users communicate more efficiently, evolving applications such as Web browsing, instant messaging (IM), Web-based email, and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing bring numerous risks to the enterprise. These risks include:

• Decreased employee productivity brought about by personal, non-business-related surfing
• Increased legal liability due to the loss of private or protected information-or due to the downloading of copyrighted information
• Intellectual property loss leading to decreased competitive advantage
• Decreased network availability resulting from bandwidth-hogging file-sharing applications or accidentally downloaded viruses.

At the perimeter of the corporate network, firewalls and intrusion detection systems provide excellent protection against external attacks. But they are not designed to control internal users from inappropriate Web surfing, opening back doors for viruses through Web based email or instant messaging, or consuming network bandwidth and storage with P2P file sharing and video streaming. The solution is to use a proxy device, such as the Blue CoatProxySG? series - designed specifically to manage and control user communication over the Internet.

Content Filtering

Enforce Internet access policies that prevent users and employees from accessing inappropriate or unproductive content on the network. Blue Coat ProxySG appliances are deployed between users and the Internet to provide comprehensive visibility and control of user communications over the Web. More

Instant Messaging Control

Instant Messaging (IM) usage has become commonplace within the enterprise and continues to rise. Blue Coat Systems enables organizations to secure and control the IM applications already in use - providing the granular access control, logging and reporting required to turn public IM products into enterprise-class messaging solutions. More

Web Virus Scanning

Virus scanning at the Internet access point plays a critical role in network security by removing harmful content at the security perimeter - before it enters and infects the network. Just as organizations deployed virus scanning on corporate email systems to secure SMTP-based services, they are deploying virus scanning to protect against new Web-based threats that utilize HTTP-based services. More

Web Proxy

To maximize employee productivity, organizations need to ensure a high quality Internet experience for users. In addition, enterprises need to implement content and user policies to manage Web traffic growth, while effectively using network resources. Blue Coat secure proxy appliances are powerful, full featured solutions for both forward and reverse proxy applications. More

Content Security

Blue Coat secure proxy appliances provide a robust and flexible way to manage users and related content-based threats. Additionally, the Proxy SG 800 and Proxy SG 8000 products provide the visibility and flexible policy capabilities needed to manage and enforce enterprise Web policies.

Bandwidth Management

Left unchecked, streaming media and recreational Web surfing can clog corporate networks with unnecessary traffic and starve mission-critical applications of the bandwidth needed to run effectively. Blue Coat Proxy SG products c ontrol streaming media and bandwidth hungry applications, to ensure users do not hog network bandwidth. More

Products

The Proxy SG? family of appliances includes the award-winning ProxySG 400 Series, 800 Series and 8000 Series. The ProxySG 400 enables corporations to extend Web traffic protection and control to the network edge, while significantly reducing the administration and management costs for securing a distributed enterprise. Both the ProxySG 800 and the ProxySG 8000 were designed to meet enterprise requirements for capacity, performance, availability and centralized management. While all three provide the same broad application support and features, the 8000 Series provides an expandable, modular platform for customizing disk size, RAM and network interface cards. More