> STOP THE BAD. ACCELERATE THE GOOD.

Your enterprise faces more competing pressures than ever before. You have to accelerate information mobility but protect vital data. Give workers more flexibility but maintain enterprise control. Drive up performance but lower costs. How can you do it all?

Creating a successful distributed enterprise means managing application performance and data security against unprecedented threats and network congestion. Every day, millions of transactions pass through your global network of internal branch offices and external partner and customer sites. All this traffic includes legitimate business communication as well as casual Web surfing and unauthorized applications, such as spyware, that can drain application performance and put your enterprise at greater risk.

To optimize business performance, you have to be able to see, secure, accelerate and control everything that moves through your communication network. You have to identify what’s important to the business, and enable that information to quickly move back and forth between users and the data center. But accelerating the right information also means eliminating harmful activity that compromises application performance and business security.

So, how do you stop the bad and accelerate the good? With integrated security and performance solutions only Blue Coat delivers.

"We chose Blue Coat because their solution allowed us to improve end-user performance and simplify the management of our Internet connectivity infrastructure."
Toby Penn, Frank Russell Company

> SEE : Identify and manage all the traffic that moves across your network

Attacks on corporate networks are becoming more sophisticated every day, and many security breaches occur within the organization itself. That’s because some viruses can hide in places the network can’t see, such as the application layer. Combined with the growing use of encryption technology, these viruses can easily be transmitted across the network in encrypted messages where they can’t be easily detected. To protect your network, you first have to see everything that resides within it.

"Blue Coat’s proxy appliances ... give me visibility to know exactly who on the network is creating risks for our organization — all while actually improving the performance of Web traffic..."
Paul Erickson, CR England Trucking

In addition to seeing what’s on your network, you have to see who is executing transactions, and when, why and how they are transacting them. All that requires effective policy control and the ability to enforce it across the enterprise from central console. With Blue Coat, you can see all your network users and activities — good or bad.

Blue Coat’s proxy-based architecture enables you to:

> Intelligently recognize all network applications and users, and set policies for usage

> Maintain a single source of policy, management and support

> Optimize your current IT investments

> SECURE : Protect Web users and applications from security threats

To effectively secure your network, you have to know who your users are, the applications they use and how they are using them. You also need to determine if their activities are businessrelated or not. Maintaining real-time information about your users is critical to filtering inappropriate Web content, blocking spyware, scanning for viruses and even discovering malicious content inside encrypted SSL tunnels.

To better secure your enterprise, Blue Coat gives IT granular control over all users, devices and applications.

"With Blue Coat at the gateway, I have been able to nearly eliminate spyware from landing on desktop computers in the first place, and as a result, our help-desk calls have been drastically reduced."
Jeffrey Pelot, Denver Health

With Blue Coat, IT can manage the security criteria unique to each branch office or remote user, and use leading authentication systems to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive content.

Blue Coat minimizes security breaches with:

> The ability to prevent malicious or unwanted applications and content from infiltrating the network

> A combination of best-practice security techniques, including authentication, access control, application control and content filtering

> A full inspection and scanning of application data to mitigate latent attacks

> ACCELERATE : Deliver the right information at the right time

Organizations increasingly rely on highbandwidth network applications for real-time business reporting, customer relationship management, supply-chain management and other mission-critical activities. When these applications are slow or simply unavailable, the consequences can impact the entire business. To ensure business continuity and deliver an exceptional experience to your

customers, you have to enable remote users to access the data they need, whenever and wherever they need it.

Accelerating distributed applications requires the right technology to remove network blockages and automate bandwidth management. Using a fully integrated combination of proven application management technologies, Blue Coat accelerates the delivery of business-critical applications to any branch office or remote user. With Blue Coat, you also eliminate the expense and complexity of managing multiple point products.

See how Blue Coat can help you:

> Accelerate all key business applications and reduce bandwidth consumption

> Manage diverse application types all from a centralized console

> Reduce cost and complexity by eliminating multiple products

> CONTROL : Govern what matters to your business — all from a central location

Every day, you have to make splitsecond decisions that impact your users, customers, partners and your bottom line. Automation can help you simplify business-critical decisions by accelerating the information your business needs, sidelining low-priority tasks and completely eliminating harmful or unnecessary network activity. As a result, you can help your business run faster and keep sensitive data out of the wrong hands.

Blue Coat gives you greater control over all your network transactions with our comprehensive, policy-based management capabilities. With Blue Coat, IT organizations can easily set and enforce granular policies associated with who, what, where, when and how users and applications behave on the network. These policy controls not only improve user productivity and delivery of Web applications, but also help boost ROI by better aligning IT resources with business processes and priorities.

Get the control you need with:

> Centralized policy management for setting and enforcing user performance and security

> The ability to respond instantly to changing organizational, technology and business conditions

> The ability to identify non-critical, unwanted or malicious traffic