PALO ALTO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 19, 2006 -- Blue Coat® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, and PortAuthority Technologies™, the leader in Information Leak Prevention, have teamed up to create an integrated security solution to prevent costly information leaks and ensure regulatory compliance. The integration of Blue Coat SG appliance and the PortAuthority Information Leak Prevention appliance now enables companies to reliably and accurately prevent information leaks over encrypted (SSL/HTTPS) and non-secure Web communications (HTTP), and FTP. The combined offering helps provide data privacy, allows the protection of confidential information, and enables the meeting of regulatory compliance with a comprehensive real-time solution for all network channels and all types of information.

“We rely on PortAuthority to accurately prevent data breaches because they are the only security solution to go beyond just monitoring our data. Now, they have gone one step further by adding support for encrypted Web communications,” said Kirk Drake, vice president of Information Technology at the National Institute of Health Federal Credit Union. “Before PortAuthority added this support we had to manually block the use of any external webmail systems that could jeopardize our sensitive information. With this integrated solution from PortAuthority and Blue Coat, we now know that all of our customer and sensitive corporate data is secure across the entire network and at every connection point, we now can automate and enforce our security policies with 100 percent confidence.”

While email has been the most common way for sensitive information to leak, enterprises have been increasingly vulnerable to data leaks over outgoing web communications. Business-critical applications that have been web-enabled use SSL to protect the confidentiality of the data for the enterprise. At the same time, SSL encrypted traffic creates a security blindspot for the enterprise since IT security lacks visibility and control into outgoing data in such secure communications. According to risk assessment data collected in PortAuthority deployments, security breaches of customer data and confidential information are growing across multiple communication channels including web communications and instant messaging.

“The market has shifted from simply monitoring the network for outgoing sensitive data to requiring the prevention of communication of such data to unauthorized recipients,” said IDC Analyst Brian Burke. “In order to provide policy enforcement and prevent information leaks, solutions must be able to accurately identify sensitive or protected data and must do so over all enterprise communications channels like email, web mail, corporate email, IM as well as encrypted communications.”

The Blue Coat SG family of appliances provides a scalable proxy platform to accelerate delivery of business applications and secure web communications in order to protect internal users and networks from malware and enforce policies. The SG appliances bring visibility into encrypted Secure Socket Layer (SSL) communications between internal corporate employees and external Internet applications. The PortAuthority appliances allow companies to reliably, accurately, precisely, and selectively stop information leaks over multiple communication channels including outbound mail, web communications, internal email, and networked printing. The combined solution of Blue Coat and PortAuthority gives customers the ability to detect and enforce data privacy policies through encrypted Web communications, which protects them from both external attacks and internal information leaks.

“SSL encrypted communications have been a significant blind spot for IT organizations, presenting security threats, possibilities for unauthorized information leakage and the lack of ability to accelerate traffic, if appropriate,” said Steve Mullaney, vice president worldwide marketing, Blue Coat Systems. “We are pleased to be working with Port Authority to add information leak prevention capabilities and provide customers with a more comprehensive solution.”

PortAuthority 4.0 uses ICAP to integrate with the Blue Coat SG proxy appliance providing enterprises with standards-based interoperability between the two products. With PortAuthority’s patented PreciseID™ technology, any outgoing sensitive information that would result in a policy violation of regulatory or corporate security requirements is very accurately identified. Such policy violations can be audited and selectively enforced with the joint PortAuthority and Blue Coat solution.

“With increasing regulatory requirements and the high cost of data security breaches, it is critical for enterprises to have full visibility and control into all outgoing data,” said Raj Dhingra, vice president of products and marketing at PortAuthority Technologies. “PortAuthority has been the pioneer for information leak prevention for external and internal leaks. Our partnership with Blue Coat extends our comprehensive information leak prevention to outgoing encrypted web communications, file transfers, and instant messaging.”

PortAuthority Technologies and Blue Coat have completed a compatibility testing and certification process to ensure seamless operation. Blue Coat utilizes an enterprise-class implementation of the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) to share information between the PortAuthority appliance and the Blue Coat SG appliance. The products are available immediately.