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Blue Coat Visual Policy Manager

Managing Web-based security is a complex task that requires the right tools. As the number of users and Web applications increases, so does the complexity of developing web security policy and the risk of error. 
The Blue Coat Visual Policy Manager simplifies security policy creation and management. Administrators can rapidly create complex policy rules and easily evaluate their impact. The intuitive graphical user interface, familiar to security administrators, makes it easy to define granular, multi-layered security policy across a network of Blue Coat Secure proxy server appliances. 

Visual Policy Manager enables administrators to: 

Blue Coat Systems Visual Policy Manager provides a powerful graphical tool for developing, implementing and managing an organization's web security policies.  

With the Blue Coat Visual Policy Manager, security and network administrators can quickly create policy rules that leverage the powerful flexibility of the Blue Coat Web Knowledge Framework and Policy Processing Engine to build powerful security rules for SG Series secure proxy servers. 

Features

Intuitive Policy Creation Interface
Quickly create sophisticated web security and control policies. Base rules on user, group, network, and/or directory attributes, as well as content type, browser type, protocol, and much more. 

Policy Layering
Group similar policy rules for easier management. For example, content filtering policies and virus scanning policies can be grouped into separate layers for easy administration. In addition, security personnel can define exception policies as needed, without disrupting existing standard policies. 

Multiple Authentication Realms
Define what authentication server/realm must be used for authentication. Administrators can define a consistent security policy for users even if the users are defined in separate authentication systems. For example, administrators can define a single policy across an organization even if some of the employees are set up in an NT Domain and others in an LDAP directory. 

Automated Policy Distribution
Combined with Blue Coat Director, allows administrators to distribute policy to different proxy servers by region and automate the distribution of changing policy. 

Content Policy Language (CPL)
In addition to visual policy creation, administrators can also create Content Policy Language definitions, providing the power of a sophisticated macro language for policy definition. 

Temporary Disable
Choose to disable policies without deleting them altogether for troubleshooting purposes or to make a temporary exception to a given policy rule. 

Browser-based
Java-based interface runs as a snap-in to any Java-enabled web browser. 

Requirements
System Requirements
Blue Coat Visual Policy Manager requires Java Runtime Environment 1.3.1 to run in Microsoft and Netscape web browsers. If the JRE is not present, it is automatically downloaded and installed the first time VPM is run.

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