Blue Coat K9 Web Protection Earns Australian IIA Family Friendly Filter Accreditation
Award-Winning Internet Filtering Software now Recommended by Australian ISPs
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 14, 2007 -- Blue Coat® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that Australia’s Internet Industry Association (IIA) has accredited Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection as an IIA Family Friendly Filter, effective for all age ranges. The IIA is a national, non-profit, industry organization in Australia that develops best practice solutions for businesses so that people of all ages can enjoy greater confidence in being online Accreditation by the IIA enables K9 Web Protection to be listed as one of the recommended filtering solutions available through Australian ISPs. K9 Web Protection enables parents to block and manage unwanted Web content such as pornography, violence, and hate speech. K9 is offered through the Blue Coat Community Outreach Program (www.k9webprotection.com), which provides materials and resources to educate this first generation of Internet parents about the impact of the Internet on children and on parenting strategies.
“The certification of K9 Web Protection to the IIA Family Friendly list makes it easier for Blue Coat to help Australian families keep their children safe on the Internet,” said John Carosella, vice president of content control for Blue Coat Systems. “As part of our community outreach, we stress to parents that filtering and monitoring software is only part of Internet parenting. Parents must treat the Internet as a public place where they proactively supervise and protect their children. By becoming involved in their children’s Internet use, parents are protecting them in one of the most effective ways possible. We are excited to be part of a valuable program that will raise awareness and help safeguard Australian families as they use the Internet.”
Designed for parents, K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat’s enterprise and government customers worldwide. K9 Web Protection divides the Internet into 60 categories, relying 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 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.
The Internet Industry Association provides policy input to government and advocacy on a range of business and regulatory issues to promote laws and initiatives which enhance access, equity, reliability, and growth of the Internet within Australia. The IIA identifies three age range classes: Class 1 (15 years and over), Class 2 (10-15 years), and Class 3 (children under 10 years).
Test results are based on effectiveness, ease of installation, ease of use, configurability, and availability of local support. The accreditation of IIA Family Friendly Filters is designed to enable Australian ISPs to recommend Internet software filters that comply with IIA standards. For more information, please visit www.iia.net.au.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems’ expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems’ products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems’ business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems’ most recently filed Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2007 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2006, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
