Blue Coat Web Antivirus
As technology evolves, so do technology-based threats. Email and Web access,
critical applications for today's connected businesses, provide a new set of
open doors into corporate networks. Virus scanning at the Internet access
point plays a critical role in network security by removing harmful content
at the security perimeter - before it enters and infects the network. Just
as organizations deployed virus scanning on corporate email servers to
secure SMTP-based services, they are deploying virus scanning to protect
against new Web-based threats that utilize proxy server based services.
In today's Web-enabled businesses, effective network security requires
implementation of a proxy server that operates at the content level. To
protect against web-based threats from both outside and inside the network,
more organizations implement Blue Coat secure web proxy server appliances
specifically designed to secure web traffic from viruses and malicious code.
These dedicated appliances complement firewalls and existing anti-virus
products as part of an overall security architecture. Optimized for content
and object level processing, these servers incorporate powerful,
patent-pending technology needed to inspect the web traffic and handle that
content according to policies set by the administrator.
The Blue Coat Solution
Blue Coat Systems security appliances in conjunction with leading virus
scanning products provide a policy-based approach to real-time virus
scanning for Web content.
Comprehensive Internet Antivirus Solution
Blue Coat Systems has developed strategic partnerships to complete its Web
traffic virus scanning offerings. The company has strategic partnerships
with Trend Micro
and Symantec for integrating those virus scanning solutions with the Blue
Coat Systems secure proxy server appliances. Leveraging the Internet Content
Adaptation Protocol (ICAP), the companies partnership includes joint
development, testing and marketing of Web virus solutions. For the first
time, organizations have complete policy-based control over high performance
Web virus scanning. For example, administrators may choose to have data
deemed safe, like images from trusted sources, not vectored to the virus
servers for scanning. Other data requested from internal sites could be sent
to a service for light scanning, while all other content could be sent to a
second virus scanning service for deeper inspection.
The Blue Coat Systems Director adds a critical element to the web security
solution - providing centralized configuration management and security
policy administration for all enterprise web traffic.
Finally, Blue Coat Systems Reporter provides identity-based reporting and
monitoring to evaluate Web security policies, usage and resource management.
Ideal for the complex web traffic patterns, Reporter translates raw network
and user data into meaningful, easy-to-use reports for planning purposes.