The Company
Blue Coat® enables organizations to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet. Blue Coat proxy appliances provide visibility and control of Web communications to protect against risks from spyware, Web viruses, inappropriate Web surfing, instant messaging (IM), video streaming and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing -- while actually improving Web performance. Trusted by many of the world's largest organizations, Blue Coat has shipped more than 20,000 proxy appliances.
Blue Coat has a tremendous opportunity for growth as organizations become increasingly, dependent on the Internet to communicate with customers, partners and employees. The Web browser has become the universal client for mission-critical communications and information, but it can also lead to increased risks for the enterprise, when every user on the network has Internet access, every user also has the means to negatively affect the business, intentionally or not.

The Opportunity
While security devices such as firewalls block internal networks from external access, it's proxy appliances that provide visibility and control of all user-initiated Web communications. As a result, more and more organizations—including 70% of the Dow Jones Industrial companies—are relying on Blue Coat high performance proxy appliances to control how their employees use the Internet. Highlighting the growing customer demand for Blue Coat proxy appliances, leading market research firm IDC recently recognized Blue Coat as the overall appliance leader in the secure content management market with 33 percent market share, more than triple that of its nearest competitor. IDC estimates that this market will grow to more than $1.6 billion in 2007, and Blue Coat is well positioned to capitalize on this tremendous market opportunity.

The Products
The Blue Coat Proxy SG™ and ProxyAV family of proxy appliances provides total visibility and control of Web communications while actually helping web performance. Based on Blue Coat SGOS™, a custom, object-based operating system with integrated caching, these proxy appliances leverage existing authentication systems to enable flexible policy enforcement down to the individual user. Proxy SG provides comprehensive proxy support of all Web protocols with integrated content filtering, spyware prevention, web virus scanning, instant messaging control, peer-to-peer (P2P) control, streaming control and pop-up ad blocking. Blue Coat's end-to-end product portfolio includes powerful reporting, policy and configuration management software - delivering a scalable proxy system architecture for centralized or distributed enterprise environments.

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