Blue Coat advances hybrid secure web gateway

New Delhi: Blue Coat Systems announced that it is expanding its hybrid secure web gateway solution with new Blue Coat ProxySG series and ProxyAV series appliances, as well as 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,
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 and additional defenses against web-based threats added to the Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service.

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. The ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances can each scale to support enterprises with 250 to 60,000 users on a single appliance.

The Blue Coat secure web gateway solution provides centralized device, license 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.

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 analyzers, sandboxing, third party feeds, machine analysis and web correlation tools that provide security intelligence for human raters, to validate new web threats and content.

WebPulse dynamically analyzes real-time URL requests and immediately shares threat intelligence with more than 62 million users worldwide. The Blue Coat secure web gateway architecture delivers innovations in design, power, scalable defenses and extended service and support to provide customers with long term protection for their Blue Coat investments and lower operational costs.

Bob Hansmann, Senior Product Marketing Manager-Secure Web Gateway, Blue Coat Systems remarked, “With a collaborative and scalable cloud-based service to deliver on-demand security intelligence, the Blue Coat secure web gateway solution continuously adapts to the dynamic web-based threat landscape that is challenging legacy security architectures. By combining a high-performance Internet gateway appliance with remote user protection and a collaborative cloud environment in a hybrid architecture, Blue Coat provides enterprises with a security foundation that is built to last.”