At the perimeter of the corporate network, firewall and instrusion detection systems provide excellent protection against external attacks. But they are not designed to control user form within- via authetication, authorization, logging, report, or policy enforcement - in order to create a productive, safe Web environment.

The solution is to use a proxy device-such as the ProxySG series of secure proxy applications from Blue Coat Systems - design specifically to manage and control user communication over the Internet on behalf of the user and the application. A proxy device doesn't replace existing perimeter security devices; rather, it complements them by giving organizations the ability to control communications in a number of ways that firewalls and other externally focused devices cannot.

Firewall protects only against external threats.

URL filtering running on overburdened firewalls or general purpose.

Scans for viruses in "store and forward" content such as email but not designed for the real-time demands of Web traffic virus scanning.

Not able handle malicious code security.

Bandwidth management requires deploying and managing multiple devices.

Legacy software-based proxy server provide limited, scalability and are costly to manage.

Protects against external threats while proxy controls user communications over the Web.

Integrated, on-box URL filtering provides comprehensive control over Web communications and improves end user response time.

Highly capable, policy-based virus scanning optimized to scan Web-based threats in real-time.

Allows flexibility to implement security policies for both uploaded and downloaded Web content.

Integrated caching, content positioning, bandwidth savings and bandwidth management provides superior performance for controlling Web applications.

Optimized appliance designed for web proxing results in higher performance and lower management costs.

Blue Coat System ProxySG secure proxy appliances are the ideal choice for controlling user communications over the Web. With Blue Coat Systems, organizations can effectively control all Web traffic with the following solutions:

Performance Web Proxy
Scalable replacement for existing proxy servers allows administrators to secure, manage and control user access to Web information.

Content Filtering
Integrated URL filtering enables network operators to prevent company resources.

Messaging Control
Allow administrators to implement centralized management and logging on AOL, MSN and Yahoo! instant messaging communications.

Virus ScanningScan once, serve many model provides the real-time performance and scalability required to effectively scan Web content

Bandwidth Management
Provide the bandwith control, bandwidth savings and caching needed to keep your network running optimally and ensure mission-critical applications get the capacity the need.