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Blue Coat

Product Version Certified: 1.0.12 for RedHat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; Solaris 8; Windows 2000
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation

Product Description:  Blue Coat Web Manager provides unequalled protection and Internet policy enforcement for businesses, government agencies, schools, libraries and homes. Blue Coat has delivered a next generation content filtering architecture using a scalable, dynamic database combined with real-time site rating technology to block objectionable and unproductive web content.

     
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration 		 
 
Company Description: Blue Coat is a leading provider of next generation Internet security solutions protecting businesses, homes, and schools from unwanted and inappropriate web content. Blue Coat was founded in April 2000 after recognizing the need for an efficient and effective Internet management solution among businesses, homes and schools. The company is dedicated to creating a safer Internet experience by providing the ability to filter, monitor, and report on Internet use and activity anytime and from anywhere.
   
Key Features and Benefits

Blue Coat provides unmatched Internet management with Internet policy enforcement and a relevant, always-fresh database of categorized ratings and domains. Blue Coat's next generation Internet management solution secures all types of computers, PDA's, and handheld devices - wired to wireless - resulting in a safer more productive Internet experience. This breakthrough filtering solution, available through a growing list of technology partners, places the technology and processing burden on Blue Coat, offering an organization's overworked team of network professionals, well-deserved relief.

Blue Coat Web Manager is unlike any other filtering solution available. Blue Coat Web Manager eliminates new hardware integration, tedious daily database updates, and constant network alerts commonly associated with filtering application problems and conflicts. While many Web filtering solutions merely replace headaches with new IT aches and pains, Blue Coat uses technology to manage Internet access and improve the overall filtering process.

  • Advanced rating and caching - making response time instantaneous
  • Continuously updated database - staying up with a constantly changing and growing Internet
  • Scalable service platform - global service model with a guaranteed uptime of 99.999%
  • Platform diversity - integrated with and offered on a variety of platforms, Internet appliances, and software solutions.
  • Essential mix of functionality - policy management, reporting, overrides, time, centralized administration, and more
  • Installation ease - intuitive user-friendly installation
  • Modular Check Point management design - utilizes familiar Check Point Smart Dashboard to setup and manage Internet policies
  • Management ease - ability to manage content filtering on multiple Check Point VPN-1 deployments without managing multiple UFP servers.
OPSEC Integration
Blue Coat Web Manager utilizes the UFP protocol to provide a fully integrated outsourced Internet content filtering solution, improving the management and control of Internet use by blocking objectionable Web content. Blue Coat's solution features more than 5 million rated Web sites and domains resulting in an effective coverage of approximately 1 billion Web pages. Blue Coat's advanced Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) technology dynamically rates new Internet content in real-time to ensure up-to-date ratings of Web sites for a constantly changing Internet environment. These combined technologies provide Check Point VPN-1 customers with the most complete comprehensive Internet content filtering solution.