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Keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet

The Proxy SGT family of appliances includes the award-winning ProxySG 400 Series, 800 Series and 8000 Series. Based on Blue Coat SGOST, a custom, object-based operating system with integrated caching, these proxy appliances leverage existing authentication systems to enable granular policy enforcement down to the individual user. Blue Coat's end-to-end product portfolio includes powerful reporting, policy and configuration management software - delivering a scalable proxy system architecture for centralized or distributed enterprise environments. Delivered as a rack mountable appliance for simple installation and management, these ICSA-certified solutions easily integrate with existing security and network infrastructure.

The ProxySG 400 enables corporations to extend Web traffic protection and control to the network edge, while significantly reducing the administration and management costs for securing a distributed enterprise. Both the ProxySG 800 and the ProxySG 8000 were designed to meet enterprise requirements for capacity, performance, availability and centralized management. While all three provide the same broad application support and features, the 8000 Series provides an expandable, modular platform for customizing disk size, RAM and network interface cards.

The ProxyAV family of appliances integrates with the ProxySG to provide scalability and performance in real-time scanning of Web-based file downloads for viruses, worms and trojans. Pairing the ProxyAV with the ProxySG provides significant advantages for high-speed Web virus scanning that standalone systems cannot match. Both the ProxyAV 400 and ProxyAV 2000 provide the same comprehensive features with easy deployment - and a choice of virus scanning engines from Sophos and McAfee.

Stop Spyware Installations

Spyware often secretly installs via "drive-by" installers, which install spyware in the background without any user interaction. Blue Coat combats this with anti-spyware policy controls that inspect, filter and block Web content associated with spyware installation software. This preventive approach is critical when spyware originates from an unknown Web site and when there is no known signature available to detect the malicious program. Blue Coat's ProxySGT appliances provide these necessary policy controls over Web content down to individual users - with the flexibility enterprises need to ensure availability of Web applications.

Block Spyware Web Sites

Blue Coat combines reporting features and on-proxy URL filtering to block known spyware and adware Web sites. These capabilities can block both attempted infections from known spyware Web sites, as well as spyware attempting to "phone home" to a known spyware domain. The Blue Coat ProxySG supports five leading on-proxy URL filtering databases, plus custom categories, overrides and exceptions to advise, coach and enforce users on spyware protection.

Scan for Spyware Signatures

Blue Coat leverages its high-performance ProxyAVT Web anti-virus appliance to scan Web traffic for known spyware signatures using proven third party anti-virus scanning engines. The ProxyAV provides high-performance Web traffic virus scanning with low latency.

Detect Desktop Spyware and Target for Clean-Up

As a proxy, Blue Coat sits in the middle of the Web data stream and can see all Web traffic traversing the network perimeter, including spyware. This powerful position in the network allows Blue Coat to leverage custom logging and reporting features to trigger a targeted spyware clean-up across desktop systems.

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