Blue Coat Web Proxy Server Appliances - Overview
The
Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances delivers a scalable proxy platform
architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of
business applications.
Deployed between users and applications as a true proxy, the ProxySG
appliance provides a critical point of control for application traffic by
terminating and reinitiating Web and other major application protocols. This
allows the appliance to:
- Secure Web communications by blocking spyware, viruses and other
unwanted traffic
- Control access by user and application to enforce Internet
acceptable use policies
- Accelerate traffic across the Internet or WAN through integrated
caching and compression
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances are designed to deliver a single proxy
architecture that addresses the various proxy requirements across a typical
enterprise network.
- Secure Web Gateway to protect internal users and networks from
spyware and other attacks, enforce appropriate usage policies on Web
access and accelerate external Web content
- 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
- Reverse Proxy in the DMZ to isolate web servers from direct Internet
access and accelerate web-based applications and public websites.