Security & Performance Solutions for the Enterprise
Today's enterprise often has no clear boundaries. Employees are distributed across various branch offices and are typically connected via the corporate WAN, but remote/mobile Internet access is also a necessity. In addition, customers, partners, suppliers, and mobile users can all leverage the Internet for authorized, “on-demand” access to the enterprise – regardless of their physical location.
Within this "boundaryless" enterprise (or any type distributed organization), applications are hosted in the main corporate data center(s) or, increasingly, applications are hosted by 3rd party organizations outside the company.
Collectively, this creates three distinct challenges for IT organizations:
- Security – IT must make the Web safe for business, blocking Internet security threats and inappropriate content, while granting authorized users access to necessary applications and content.
- Performance – IT must strive to optimize performance of critical business applications – such as e-mail, file systems, multimedia, and Web applications (including encrypted SSL applications) being delivered to remote users in branch offices, as well as mobile users.
- Control – The requirements above cannot be effectively addressed without granular visibility and policy-based control capabilities. Control is necessary to ensure that the business is providing superior security and performance for all users and critical applications.
Blue Coat appliances and software technology help IT organizations secure Web communications and accelerate delivery of business applications for all users across the distributed enterprise - including Internet gateways, branch offices, data centers, and even individual end points. Blue Coat appliances function as intelligent points of control wherever users and applications are connected to the network. This enables IT organizations to ensure that individual users are safe and productive, critical business applications perform well, security threats are contained, and costly application and network resources are delivering maximum value to the business.
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