Blue Coat advances secure web gateway

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 250-60,000 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.