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Blue Coat Application Delivery Network solutions provide intelligent control of your network through the combination of visibility, acceleration and security technologies that optimize application and network performance for any user, anywhere, across a distributed organization. Blue Coat's application performance management, WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway solutions enable IT to provide greater business efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness.

Blue Coat is a leading provider of the most comprehensive Application Delivery Network solutions. Over 15,000 of the most demanding organizations, including 81% of the Fortune Global 500, trust Blue Coat to accelerate and control mission-critical applications. Additional information is available at www.bluecoat.com.

TechnologyBrief Top 10: To Trust or Not
To eliminate the gray area of what your employees should and should not trust, know your Web defense. Download this Top 10 list of risks that your employees may assume they can trust but your Web defense should not.
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TechnologyBrief Top Ten Security Trends for 2009
Web developers- unsurprisingly - focus on the development of new and better Web sites and applications and tend not to focus nearly as heavily on security, leaving their applications vulnerable to a host of ever-more virulent and more sophisticated attacks. Until security becomes a sufficiently high priority, Web sites and related applications will continue to be ripe for attack by cyber criminals. One strategic step to take is to look at the top 10 security trends for 2009 to see what defensive action can be taken now.
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TechnologyBrief Top Ten Web Trends for 2009
Mobile devices continue to account for a growing share of individuals' access to email, Web sites and Web-based applications, including a growing proportion of the sensitive data they receive and generate. As a result, mobile devices represent an increasingly serious threat for organizations of all sizes. This will require additional protection, including encryption, so that sensitive data cannot be accessed, sold or otherwise used in inappropriate ways. DLP will be a critical technology-given the security risks introduced by mobile devices, mobile DLP will be even more important. Learn more about this and other web trends for 2009.
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whitePaper Data Centric Security for Enterprise WANs
Enterprises of all kinds need to protect valuable data, whether to comply with industry regulations or to guard intellectual capital. Unfortunately, it's all too easy and common for users to leak this data to outside parties, either accidentally or with malicious intent.
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whitePaper Monitor & Control Recreational Traffic
The explosive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, personal networking sites like MySpace, and video-sharing sites like YouTube are all examples of the dramatic changes in how we communicate socially, particularly among younger populations. The underlying problem is how drastically these recreational applications can drag down your network performance. Learn how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today.
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whitePaper The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet
Despite over $7 billion a year being spent on anti-virus and other security software, the dangers of becoming a victim of cybercrime are increasing. This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.
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whitePaper Voice, Video and Data Convergence: A Approach for Transitioning Your Network Infrastructure
The business benefits of network convergence are clear: fast, dependable, real-time communication, unprecedented information mobility and worker flexibility, and the ability to instantly transmit a variety of data types to almost any device, anywhere in the world. And that's just the beginning.
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whitePaper Protecting Against the Wave of Web Threats
Cybercriminals are realizing enormous profits from placing hidden malware in popular Web sites and infecting innocent visitors to these sites. This white paper discusses the extent of today's Web threats and provides recommendations on key aspects of a defense against them. It also provides information on Blue Coat's offerings.
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TechnologyBrief Top 5 Security Best Practices for your Web Gateway in 2009
Online security will remain a top concern for both individuals and corporations throughout the next year and beyond. Here are a few ways to protect your vital data from increasingly sophisticated malware and network attacks.
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TechnologyBrief 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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whitePaper 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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technologyBrief Top 10 Ways to Protect Against Web Threats
This technology brief details the top 10 ways to secure and accelerate your business by thwarting many web attacks with protections at the Web Gateway.
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technologyBrief Accelerating Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
This Technology Brief outlines how, using WAN optimization with Blue Coat MACH5 technology, businesses expand their scope of coverage, reduce operational expenses and accelerate disaster recovery into business continuity.
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TechnologyBrief 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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ResearchReport 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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ResearchReport IDC: Managed Services Delivery - From Packets to Applications
Managed services have been a fixture of the enterprise networking space for quite some time now. Telecom carriers and other types of service providers have developed value-added extensions to connectivity services, typically involving the procurement, management, and monitoring of the access devices located at the customer premises. Currently, however, a number of business and technology issues are converging to create even greater opportunity in the managed services arena.
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TechnologyBrief Top 10 Reasons Hackers Use the Web for Attacks
This technology brief details the vulnerabilities hackers use to take advantage of the web for attacks. Secure and accelerate your business with protections at the Web Gateway.
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ResearchReport Webtorials: Application Acceleration Challenge
Accelerating and optimizing are not the only reason to implement an acceleration solution. An acceleration solution provides an important level of control over the WAN to make sure everything runs smoothly. For example, video and voice traffic can't be accelerated or optimized, it is already compressed. Bandwidth management techniques in accelerators can ensure that other traffic does not negatively impact voice traffic.
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ResearchReport Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway
Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbent providers have been slow to respond to changing demands, while new vendors are struggling to get the right product mix and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market.
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