Blue Coat’s John Carosella to Speak at Family Online Safety Institute Annual Conference
Conference theme Rights and Responsibility: Child Protection in a Web 2.0 World provides platform for Carosella to discuss Internet parenting in the 21st Century
SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 26, 2007 -Blue Coat Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced John Carosella, vice president of content control, will participate in a discussion roundtable titled "What methods and messages do we need to effectively reach parents, teachers and children?" at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The conference will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Thursday, December 6, 2007.
The discussion roundtable, will be moderated by Tim Lordan, executive director of the Internet Education Foundation, and panelists will include Marsali Hancock, president, Internet Keep Safe Coalition; Marian Merritt, Internet safety advocate, Symantec; and Rudi Vansnick, president/CEO, Internet Society Belgium and Treasurer ISOC-ECC, Barcelona Spain.
The Family Online Safety Institute and the Annual Conference and Exhibition is a place for the national and international Internet industry to identify and promote best practices, tools and methods of online safety. This annual gathering will bring together the very best thinkers, the most innovative technologies, the most effective educators and the most enlightened legislators from around the world. The purpose is to raise awareness of the extraordinary challenges facing parents, teachers, industry leaders, legislators and the kids themselves in the new digital world, while highlighting a range of evolving solutions to protect children from Internet dangers.
Mr. Carosella is responsible for the award-winning K9 Web Protection Internet filtering product and Blue Coat's associated community outreach program. Through the program, Mr. Carosella hosts speaking engagements to educate and assist first generation Internet parents on the impact the Internet has on children and on parenting strategies in the 21st century. Mr. Carosella is a frequent speaker on the topic, and has been published in several parenting magazines and is included in the feature-length documentary Traffic Control: The People's War on Internet Porn. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University, and can be reached through his parenting blog www.theinternetparent.blogspot.com.
Designed for parents, K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat enterprise and government customers worldwide. K9 Web Protection divides the Internet into 60 categories, and relies on Blue Coat's commercial filtering service that processes 80 million Web site rating requests per day. Parents can configure the software to block or allow content from specific categories such as pornography, spyware, and adult/mature content, and also block access to the web at selected times of day-after bedtime, for example. K9 Web Protection is available at no charge through the Blue Coat Community Outreach Program (www.k9webprotection.com), which also provides materials and resources to educate Internet parents about the impact of the Internet on children and on parenting strategies.
For more information and to review the conference agenda, please visit http://www.fosi.org/conference2007/.
About FOSI
The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) is an international non-profit organization that actively works to identify and promote best practices, tools and methods in the field of online safety. The organization facilitates the meeting of thought leaders in technology, policy and education, culminating in its Annual Conference. FOSI also incorporates the work and mission of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA), the world's leading content labeling system for the Internet, providing families with the tools they need to protect their children and ensuring continued freedom of expression for content providers. FOSI is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has additional locations in the UK, Germany and Austria. For more information, please visit www.fosi.org.
About Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Blue Coat WAN Application Delivery solutions “stop the bad and accelerate the good,” optimizing application performance and security for any user, anywhere, across a distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s proxy architecture completely understands users and applications on the network, affords granular control over security, and permits fast, secure delivery of all of the applications critical to running the business. Blue Coat is the world’s largest provider of WAN Application Delivery solutions. Over 6,000 of the world’s most demanding enterprises, including 93 of Fortune’s Global 100 organizations, trust Blue Coat to secure and accelerate mission-critical applications. Additional information is available at www.bluecoat.com.
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