Blue Coat Full Proxy Edition of the ProxySG appliance family is part of Blue Coat’s Web security solutions that provides complete Web security and WAN Optimization. ProxySG delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ProxySG enables flexible, granular, policy controls over content, users, applications, web applications, and protocols.
The Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances provides comprehensive protection and control over web traffic. It enables the following functions: Strong user authentication, web filtering, deep inspection of content for data loss or threats, security checks to the WebPulse collaborative defense, inspection and validation of SSL traffic, content caching and traffic optimization, bandwidth management, streaming media splitting and caching, method level controls per protocol. It also has the ability to filter, strip or replace web content. Its new Web Application Policy Engine provides granular visibility and control over web applications. ProxySG is the ultimate foundation for a Secure Web Gateway with its content controls and policy flexibility. It can also provide the unique ability to deliver web security and acceleration in one solution to a branch office. This all enables branch users to have access directly to the internet, with the same security coverage as those users in the main office.
ProxySG deployed with Blue Coat WebFilter automatically includes WebPulse and Blue Coat ProxyClient for remote user protection, filtering and acceleration. ProxySG with ProxyAV enables the highest performing inline threat analysis, including SSL, with a choice of leading anti-malware engines. And data loss prevention integration is securely enabled with S-ICAP or standard ICAP on ProxySG with certified DLP partners.
ProxySG innovations in new hardware platforms with multiple cores and the SGOS operating system with multi-threading. SGOS is a micro kernel built for web object processing, secure and small in design, it rarely needs attention or patches, and it runs year after year at performance levels beyond the competition. Health checks and monitoring provide administrator awareness, plus Director enables centralized device, license and policy management of ProxySG web gateways.
Benefits |
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Consistent, real-time protection against web-based malware and other malicious threats |
Application Acceleration solution at branch offices to improve the often sluggish performance of applications – such as file services, rich media applications, and e-mail – that traverse the corporate WAN or the Internet |
Dramatically reduces bandwidth requirements |
Flexible policies that follow users as they move across locations and networks |
Enforces appropriate Internet usage policies |
Integrated reporting for single-pane-of-glass visibility into all web and user behavior |
Reverse Proxy in the DMZ to isolate web servers from direct Internet access and accelerate web-based applications and public websites. |
