Resources

Blue Coat's CEO, Brian NeSmith spoke with Tech Target at Interop 2008 about the Packeteer acquisition, life at Blue Coat and the future of WAN optimization.

What are government agencies, like yours, doing to meet the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) deadline and establish a strategic Internet gateway architecture to meet future security, regulatory and application demands? On the webinar, learn how customers like the Department of Homeland Security's US Customs & Border Protection agency recently consolidated its gateways to comply with TIC. In addition to reducing the number of its public-facing gateways, CBP also found it was able to boost security and implement new policies for managing web traffic and actually accelerate the delivery of web content to the end user by implementing the right edge solution.

Application performance is one of the biggest challenges network managers face today, requiring them to extend their skills and work across multiple disciplines to ensure all applications are running optimally across the entire environment. In this video, expert Robin Layland discusses why applications delivery is so critical, how traffic can be optimized on the WAN, and how security and virtualization affect the performance of applications on the network. Robin also describes his vision for the future of application delivery.

Listen to this podcast with the Sarrel Group discussing the findings of their competitive tests on WAN optimization appliances. The test focused on comparing the impact on end user experience and WAN performance of deploying a WAN optimization solution in a distributed environment complete with a data center and branch client workstations. Measurements were taken for different real life WAN optimization scenarios including file caching of static and changed HTTP and CIFS files with proxies deployed at various locations. Learn the level of WAN performance improvement yielded by the Blue Coat Proxy SG over the competition. You can also read the Sarrel Group report.

Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats. The lead author of Gartner’s Secure Web Magic Quadrant will discuss the functions a secure web gateway must perform, in the face of performance requirements, encryption, and application-level threats.

Everyone knows data at rest is growing – the question is where? Is it locked in a safe, secure but far away datacenter, or out in the field where users need it most? Server consolidation and storage virtualization are great cost and risk management plans, but as content gets richer – and larger – it means that wide area networks have to evolve. How will you meet today’s need for corporate video and massive patches, and tomorrow’s integrated document and SOA applications?

Blue Coat has an answer – get the data close to the users, without the risk and cost of remote video, file and web servers at the branch office. A Blue Coat Content Delivery Network can position all kinds of data all the way to the edge of the business. That makes e-learning, corporate “egocasts” and large patches a breeze, and prepares you for the next generation of integrated file and rich media applications. All with the control and acceleration you expect from the leader in Application Delivery.

As more rich internet applications (RIAs) migrate to the enterprise, it’s vitally important that network engineers and security architects work together to optimize application performance and security. This is particularly true for a highly distributed user community where multiple points of access mean that network reliability and security cannot be guaranteed.

To learn more about these trends and how to rise to the challenges of efficiently and effectively enhancing both application performance and network security, join this live TechRepublic Webcast with Mark Bouchard, Analyst for Missing Link Security. This Webcast will show you how to:

- Deliver application content quickly and securely -- to any user over any network
- Simplify and unify policy management
- Maximize network infrastructure investment

Bouchard will also explore the business case and selection criteria for choosing a combined solution that addresses both your performance and security needs. This webcast will offer expert tips and advice on simultaneously enhancing application performance and network security. Register today!

Today’s web content changes quickly, often with multiple publishers via interactive web applications and feeds. Plus image searching, translation services and search engine web content caches provide backdoors around traditional URL filtering solutions for students, not to mention octal/hex and 32-bit integer web addresses for well known adult sites, plus proxy avoidance tools. A proxy based URL filtering solution combined with a real-time scanning service for new web content provides 24/7 protection as traditional update cycles leave a window of opportunity for objectionable content and web threats.

Join us February 7th as Perry Drayful from Widener University reviews their proxy implementation for URL filtering for Delaware’s K-12 school districts, plus Tom Clare from Blue Coat reviews key features of ProxySG and WebFilter for complete web content control. Educational environments provide the strongest test of web content filtering and control as students test multiple avenues to objectionable content by the minute. Attend this 60-minute event to:

-Learn from Widener University’s K-12 ProxySG deployment and experience
-Understand common backdoors around traditional URL filtering solutions
-Review WebFilter’s real-time URL rating service for new web content and threats
-Ask questions about proxy based URL filtering and web content controls

Join this webinar and learn more about the situation the Air National Guard (ANG) was facing with its network, which connects more than 200 locations in 54 states and territories. Instead of increasing bandwidth, the proper solution turned out to be the Blue Coat ProxySG. Enforcement and acceleration go hand in hand because of the network overhead in policy enforcement.

Join us Tuesday, January 29, 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT for this informative case study webinar.

Web 2.0 opens the door for small scale, short duration attacks aimed at specific organizations. Learn how these attacks function and mitigation steps to protect your organization. IT organizations are facing increased complexity in the Web 2.0 world where employees expect collaborative information sharing and just in time delivery of content. A new set of criteria for web gateway security is required, and solutions must scale to enterprise levels, deliver zero-hour protection with dynamic ratings, and allow blended threat protection upon a high performance architecture, often with hardware acceleration.

Learn how to protect your organization from emerging Web 2.0 threats hidden in collaborative content, here-and-gone phishing sites, and unproductive web surfing. Every employee click in a client browser can open a doorway into your enterprise network, and backdoor activities often fly below network radar monitoring tools. Make your organization's migration into the Web 2.0 world a secure and scalable solution by attending this ISSA webinar.

With increasing reliance on the Internet and semi-public MPLS any-to-any networks, corporate infrastructure no longer resembles the fortresses of old. Rather, they more closely resemble a series of interconnected islands, often punctuated with bridges to partners, service providers and other outsourced services. While business and telecom providers have been quick to exploit the cost benefits and flexibility this new model offers, it creates specific challenges – and opportunities – for the application delivery infrastructure. This webcast explores the requirements for successful application delivery in a sea of islands, including new ways of thinking about security, control and network optimization in this any-to-any world.

This six minute Flash presentation provides an overview of Blue Coat RA, a next generation SSL VPN that delivers unprecedented support for unmanaged devices, such as employee home desktops.

After many delays, false-starts and disappointments, rich media is staging a silent return to the priority list of many organizations. From executive ego-casting to compliance mandated e-learning, going beyond text and pictures and into video, podcasting and interactive Flash is more and more seen as the best way to engage employees. Yet there were reasons for past disappointments; the latency-sensitive, bandwidth intensive nature of these applications makes them difficult and expensive to provision over existing networks. In this webcast, you’ll learn what cost-effective techniques network administrators are using to support these demanding applications.

Customers rely on business critical information; this makes it imperative for IT departments to protect against unexpected data loss from disasters. While a disaster recovery plan is a good start it should also include pre-emptive plans (or a preventative disaster recovery plan) to identify and address potential problems. This will ensure critical data is replicated and backed up in a secure location.

Both replication and backup involve large amounts of information transferred globally but limitations in the WAN can make it difficult to execute the plan effectively. A preventative plan in place should always include WAN acceleration to facilitate disaster recovery. This webcast will discuss today’s WAN technology that is available to assist IT managers’ ability to offer their enterprise a preventative plan.