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White Papers
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Blue Coat WebFilter Technology
The nature of Web traffic and browsing habits has evolved far beyond early generation URL filtering architectures. Enforcing appropriate use policy and providing robust Web content security requires a truly dynamic filtering solution. This white paper examines the requirements for a dynamic content filtering solution to perform an effective policy enforcement and gateway security role, and details Blue Coat WebFilter’s approach.
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The Evolution of Data Loss Prevention: Reducing Complexity
In recent years, organizations have come to recognize the critical importance of safeguarding sensitive information. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies fill an important role in maintaining the security of sensitive data. The technologies we know today as DLP have evolved significantly from their initial conception.
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Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle
It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new demands on their IT infrastructure and often unknowingly threatening their company’s security every day. Recent studies indicate that within three years, there will be over one billion mobile workers worldwide, so the problems of secure, fast, and reliable remote access will only escalate.
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A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
Caching is a widely-used, industry-recognized technology for improving user response time and minimizing bandwidth utilization. Today, this requirement is essential to keep up with the exponential increase in enterprise WAN traffic caused by server consolidation, centralization, and outsourcing. Read this white paper to learn more about the role of caching, how object caching and byte caching work, and how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
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Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
Delivering applications over long, skinny WAN pipelines is no easy feat, and the presence of impenetrable SSL tunnels made it impossible to accelerate a growing part of that traffic. To regain control over application delivery when almost anything business related is encrypted, organizations need SSL-aware solutions that can intercept, understand, and accelerate. Read this white paper to find out how, with the help of Blue Coat MACH5 technology, IT can once again gain control over their WAN links, accelerating the good and denying the bad, regardless of SSL encryption.
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Case Studies
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Avocent Accelerates Critical Applications over WAN While Ensuring Distributed Web Security
This case study discusses how Blue Coat’s SG appliances accelerate file transfer, SSL encrypted traffic and other business-critical applications while delivering web security and control for Avocent.
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Charlotte County Public Schools: Accelerating Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL
This case study shows how Blue Coat can optimize a diverse network while providing the security and control needed to protect thousands of students and faculty from Internet-borne risks.
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Gartner Case Study: Woods Bagot-Blue Coat
This case study details an example of a global design service provider using wide-area network (WAN) optimization to enable live multisite collaboration and remote access to its large graphic files and documentation through a direct connection to the Internet. This approach enabled the company to avoid significant bandwidth upgrade costs and increased overall usage of the network.
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Policy-Based Acceleration for Business Applications, Including SSL,While Adding Security and Control
Using Blue Coat’s SSL interception and MACH5 technology, this case study shows how Richardson Financial was able to exceed their customer’s expectations and improve the user experience.
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SNL Financial Accelerates Information Flow to and from Branch Offices
This case study discusses how Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate file Services and business-critical applications while delivering web security and control to SNL Financial.
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Podcasts
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Gartner Secure Web Gateway podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats.
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The Secret to Sizing WAN Optimization Appliances
Listen to this podcast to find out the true way to size and budget for your WAN Optimization projects. Relying on TCP connections alone may work for packet-level devices like routers, switches, and firewalls, but with sophisticated Layer 7 acceleration products, better understanding of the application layer is critical.
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Transparency and WAN Optimization
Ever wonder what network transparency means with respect to application acceleration and WAN Optimization? Discover more about all aspects of transparency including: deployment options, network management tools and reporting, and what specific requirements to consider when investing in a WAN Optimization solution.
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Gartner Security Podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats. The lead author of Gartner’s Secure Web Magic Quadrant will discuss the functions a secure web gateway must perform, in the face of performance requirements, encryption, and application-level threats.
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Malware Defenses
Blue Coat's Chief Scientist and its Security Expert discuss Malware Defenses and a new industry concept - the honey grid. The honey grid is like a community watch. Download this podcast to learn more.
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Webcasts
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Turning Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
Customers rely on business critical information; this makes it imperative for IT departments to protect against unexpected data loss from disasters. Both replication and backup involve large amounts of information transferred globally but limitations in the WAN can make it difficult to execute the plan effectively. A preventative plan in place should always include WAN acceleration to facilitate disaster recovery.
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Gartner: New Era for Web Security Challenges
More and more we’re conducting business via the Web, due largely to the adoption of external applications. But as businesses move to the Web, so is malware, utilizing dynamic links in fast moving attacks. This has put a large strain on legacy defenses. But with constrained budgets and fewer IT resources to upgrade security defenses, how do you protect your company?
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Got Content? Making Rich Media Networking Work
After many delays, false-starts and disappointments, rich media is staging a silent return to the priority list of many organizations. Yet there were reasons for past disappointments: the latency-sensitive, bandwidth intensive nature of these applications makes them difficult and expensive to provision over existing networks. Learn what cost-effective techniques network administrators are using to support these demanding applications.
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Healthcare Industry Solutions Webinar: Network Systems Security and Application Acceleration
Healthcare providers face dueling challenges: get real-time patient information directly to the point of care, while storing data in secure locations. Providers need a way to expand existing network investments while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Join our webcast to hear how healthcare providers can solve WAN application-performance issues, while providing utmost security in preventing leakage of confidential patient information.
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Islands in the Clouds
With increasing reliance on the Internet and semi-public MPLS any-to-any networks, corporate infrastructure no longer resembles the fortress of old. Rather, it`s more a series of interconnected islands. This new model creates specific challenges and opportunities for the application delivery infrastructure. Explore security, control and network optimization ideas for successful application delivery in a sea of islands.
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Product Literature
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Blue Coat Reporter: Complete Web Visibility and Control
Blue Coat Reporter gives managers powerful visibility into all web-related user activity. Beyond URL filtering, Reporter provides customizable, at-a-glance dashboards and reports along with intuitive drill-down capabilities making it an invaluable part of security, compliance, bandwidth management, and other business critical efforts necessary in today’s competitive environment.
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Control Access to Web Content and Block Web Threats
As part of the Application Delivery Network (ADN), an infrastructure that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security, Blue Coat WebFilter protects user productivity, blocks malware downloads and Web threats, and enables compliance.
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Get the World’s Leading Proxy Appliance: Blue Coat Full Proxy Addition ProxyAV 210 510 810
ProxySG is the ultimate foundation for a Secure Web Gateway with its content controls and policy flexibility, or a branch office providing security and acceleration in one solution. The Blue Coat security framework scales in many ways resulting in lower TCO for customers.
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Get the World’s Leading Proxy Appliance: Blue Coat Full Proxy Addition ProxySG 9000
ProxySG with WebPulse, the collaborative cloud defense uniting over 62M users for Web awareness and response to Web content and threats, creates a hybrid design providing the best of on-premise controls with the collective intelligence of cloud service.
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Stop Malware at the Web Gateway: Blue Coat AV 1200 1400 2400
Blue Coat ProxyAV offers advanced malware detection at the gateway as part of the Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Revving Up Your WAN
eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza talks with eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Henry Baltazar about Henry`s look at WAN acceleration products and technologies.
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Research Reports
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Ashton, Metzler and Associates: The 2009 Handbook of Application Delivery
Over the last few years application delivery has become a priority for virtually all IT organizations. However, while many IT organizations have become better at application delivery, the majority of IT organizations struggle with this highly complex task. This handbook is designed to provide the end-to-end guidance that the typical white paper cannot provide. An unfortunate side affect of providing that guidance is that the handbook is lengthy. To compensate for that, this executive summary is intended to provide a summary of the key topics found in the handbook and to provide the online reader with a hyperlink to specific sections of the handbook that provide greater detail.
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Broadband Testing Web Threat Report
90% of Web threats now come from trusted web sites. Multiple, dynamic defense layers are now required and users should see cloud-based URL filtering as their first layer providing most of the protection. Broadband-Testing put the multiple top URL filtering solutions to the test against several competing products, using a range of tests including URL samples of around 900,000, collected globally over a seven day period, direct web threat comparison finds and a Facebook specific test. Read this report to find out which company has the most accurate URL filter.
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Forrester Research Paper: The Evolution of the Enterprise Network
Businesses are turning to IT to drive down expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Embracing network-centric applications and services will allow for various savings in the form of capital and ongoing operational expense savings.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant WAN Optimization Controllers 2006
The market for WAN optimization controllers remains dynamic, with vendors offering different feature sets. Organizations should identify their specific needs and look to real-life trials before committing to any purchase.
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway 2010
The secure Web gateway (SWG) market continues to experience solid growth as enterprise customers scramble to improve defenses from an increasingly hostile Internet and safely use increasingly interactive Web applications. The SWG is a critical tool for protecting endpoints from various forms of malware and other security risks, and for monitoring and controlling potentially dangerous Web traffic.
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Reviews
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Blue Coat SG800
Despite the fact that its byte-caching technology is only a couple of months old, Blue Coat Systems’ SG800 appliances performed reasonably well in our WAN acceleration tests. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Top 10 Security Trends for 2008
Security threats still abound and some can be disastrous to company IT infrastructure and corporate data.
Download this tech brief to learn more about how to protect yourself.
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5 New Year’s Networking Resolutions for 2009
Time to ring out your old-school networking, ring in an Application Delivery Network. Let Blue Coat help make 2009 the year you get your network in shape (both performance-wise and economically). To kickoff a great year, here are some resolutions to set for yourself and the team.
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5 Reasons Why You Need Better Visibility of Your Network
Ever try hammering a nail with your eyes closed? That’s because you need visibility to perform certain tasks and finding a solution to your network is no different. This technology brief describes 5 reasons why you need better visibility with your network.
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Accelerating Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
End-to-end plans for turning disaster recovery into full business continuity are very complex, but from an IP-network perspective it can be reduced to three main challenges.
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Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
This brief discusses ways to dramatically improve remote file services using Blue Coat’s MACH5 suite of acceleration and control technologies.
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Videos
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Video on the Web - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on pre-population and stream splitting for video delivery. With Blue Coat you can enhance end-user experience by eliminating buffering pauses or choppiness, providing faster start times and smoother audio and video playback.
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WAN Optimization - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on WAN Optimization. No matter where your users work, Blue Coat solutions can accelerate application performance to LAN speeds – securely and cost-effectively. Apply policies to stop, speed up or slow down content. Make room for business critical applications and slow down recreational usage.
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Articles
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Top 5 Myths on Direct-to-Net
Direct-to-Net (sometimes Referred to as Split Tunneling) means allowing users to access the Internet and download files and applications directly without “backhauling.” This article contains the top five most commonly held myths about Direct-to-Net.
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Top 5 WAN Optimization Myths
A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to a costly and incorrect IT investment, not to mention online downtime, potential data loss and/or corruption, and human resource wastage. Read this article to learn five of the most common WAN misperceptions and how to better address the issues.
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WAN Optimization for Executives
All users need fast, secure access to critical applications wherever they are working. Conversely, for ease of management, enhanced security and compliance, the trend is to consolidate applications and servers to fewer, centralized locations. In many cases, a centralized application is a poorly performing application. Read this article to find out why this is so often the case.
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