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Anti-Spyware Solution has inbound and outbound URL filters.
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To enhance Web visibility and control, gateway spyware prevention solution has 2 separate URL filtering categories for applying policy to inbound spyware installs and outbound spyware communications. Pre-defined spyware reports give administrators granular visibility of spyware infections across enterprise, graphically showing traffic, spyware-infected client computers, and spyware blocked at gateway. Proxy-based controls stop drive-by spyware installations.
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Blue Coat Gateway Spyware Prevention First to Include Inbound and Outbound Spyware URL Filtering Categories
Continues Leadership in Gateway Spyware Prevention by Adding Pre-Defined Reports and New URL Categories to Enhance Web Visibility and Control
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 24 -- Blue Coat(R) Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), a leading provider of proxy appliances, today continued its leadership in delivering gateway spyware prevention by introducing two new URL filtering categories for applying policy to inbound spyware installs and outbound spyware communications. Blue Coat is also delivering pre-defined spyware reports that give administrators granular visibility of spyware traffic and infections.
Leading research firm Gartner states that anyone doing general Web surfing can fall prey to spyware(1), and with an increasing number of commercial Web sites distributing spyware, simply blocking all known sources of spyware will result in common Web use being severely restricted. Blue Coat is proactively addressing this by bolstering its existing anti-spyware solution with two separate URL filtering categories -- one for applying policy controls to known spyware sources and one for applying policy controls to known destinations where spyware attempts to "phone home." This enables organizations to apply policy controls that could limit inbound spyware traffic without completely blocking access to sites that may have spyware advertising, while also blocking outbound spyware communications.
Visibility is also important to any enterprise anti-spyware solution for obtaining and measuring infections across the organization, as well as gauging and maximizing the effectiveness of the solution. Blue Coat has enhanced its existing enterprise anti-spyware solution with multiple pre-defined reports that quickly and easily enable administrators to track spyware activities across the enterprise -- spanning departments, groups, and individual users. Blue Coat reports graphically show spyware traffic traversing the network, spyware-infected client computers and spyware blocked at the gateway.
"Spyware was generating 25% of our help desk calls, forcing us to spend hours each day reacting to spyware by manually installing multiple software packages at the desktop," said Jeffrey Pelot, CTO of Denver Health. "With Blue Coat at the gateway, I have been able to nearly eliminate spyware from landing on desktop computers in the first place, and as a result, our help- desk calls have been drastically reduced."
Blue Coat's existing gateway anti-spyware solution utilizes advanced proxy-based controls designed to stop "drive-by" spyware installations, a critical area of spyware prevention when signatures, patterns or known spyware URLs do not exist. This Blue Coat technology and the new URL filtering categories are also complemented by the power and performance of Blue Coat's ProxyAV(TM) solution that scans Web content for known spyware signatures. Reporting capabilities round out the solution by giving administrators visibility into spyware infections, activity and removal across the network.
"Organizations are wasting countless IT help-desk hours dealing with spyware in a reactive manner," said Steve Mullaney, vice president of marketing for Blue Coat. "Blue Coat continues to advance enterprise spyware prevention as the only vendor to offer two separate URL filtering categories for spyware sources and destinations, as well as increased visibility with pre-defined spyware reports."
Availability
Blue Coat's enterprise spyware prevention with two new URL categories and enhanced reporting is available today from Blue Coat and its global network of reseller partners. For preventive spyware protection, Blue Coat recommends using the integrated ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances to identify spyware activity, stop spyware installs, block spyware Web sites and scan for known spyware signatures. More information can be obtained at www.bluecoat.com or by calling 408-220-2200.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat enables organizations to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet. Blue Coat proxy appliances provide visibility and control of Web communications to protect against risks from spyware, Web viruses, inappropriate Web surfing, instant messaging (IM), video streaming and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing -- while actually improving Web performance. Trusted by many of the world's largest organizations, Blue Coat has shipped more than 20,000 proxy appliances. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at 408-220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
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(1) Gartner Report "A Field Guide to Spyware Variations" by John Girard.
July 9, 2004.
CONTACT: Tony Thompson of Blue Coat Systems, Inc., +1-408-220-2305, or tony.thompson@bluecoat.com; or Dara Sklar of Schwartz Communications, +1-415-512-0770, or bluecoat@schwartz-pr.com, for Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
