Technical briefs are designed to illustrate the features and capabilities of Blue Coat products. They are not intended to solve customer-specific requests; if you need a customized solution to address a specific concern, contact Blue Coat Professional Services at Professional.Services@bluecoat.com.
DISCLAIMER: Technical briefs are not guaranteed to work in every environment. Each technical brief is tested and implemented on newly-configured machines; your existing policy might interfere with the technical brief’s goals. Therefore, use the technical brief as an example and foundation for creating your own site-specific policies.
TECH BRIEFS
Policy Best Practices
This techbrief provides information on how to create robust, optimized policy.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Understand Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, its security challenges, and Blue Coat solutions.
Enhanced Caching of Static Flash Video
While blocking is one approach, another is to aggressively cache and server content from local storage. This combined with appropriate content prioritization can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.
Preventing Malware with Blue Coat Proxies
Learn how to create five different ProxySG policies to block malware in various ways tuned to your organization's needs.
ICAP Integration
This technical brief provides step-by-step instructions for configuring a Blue Coat ProxySG to communicate with a third-party ICAP content-scanning server.
Enhanced Authentication Use Cases
Everyday scenarios for implementing the SG 5.2 Guest Authentication, Permit Authentication Error, and User Management Features
Reporter Frequently Asked Questions
Understand Reporter more with this Blue Reporter Training Course document.
Customizing the database of a Reporter V8 Profile
It is possible to customize Reporter V8 profiles to store additional log fields to the database and/or to create additional pair and triplet sets to support custom reports on either new fields or new combinations of existing fields. This document will explain how to make these changes.
Creating a Bandwidth Management Strategy
Understand bandwidth management, how it works, and create a bandwidth management strategy for your network.
Controlling Skype
Block Skype traffic to address security issues such as breaches of confidentiality.
WebFilter on Blue Coat SG Appliances
Download and configure WebFilter URL database for use on Blue Coat SG appliances.
Identifying and Blocking Spyware
Configure the ProxySG and ProxyAV to stop the installation and communication of spyware in the enterprise.
LDAP Authentication [856KB]
Configure the ProxySG to authenticate user to an existing LDAP directory server.
Creating an IM Policy [3MB]
Learn how to create corporate instant messaging polices including filters, warnings, and DNS re-directs.
Controlling P2P in the Enterprise [919KB]
Learn multiple control options using the ProxySG to control P2P activity in your enterprise.
Reverse Proxy with SSL [1.9MB]
Realize increased security and performance benefits on Web servers by implementing a reverse proxy with SSL solution using the ProxySG.
Enabling NTLM Authentication on the ProxySG [830KB]
Configure the ProxySG to Utilize A Company's Existing NTLM Authentication.
Controlling Tunnelling Applications [70KB]
Get a handle on tunnelling applications that make use of open ports on your firewall through the use of the ProxySG and its powerful policy and control features.
Implementing Exception Pages [972KB]
Utilize the ProxySG exception page functionality by enabling built-in or user-defined exception pages to notify users when Web site access has been restricted.
Web Filter on the ProxySG
Download and configure Web Filter URL database for use on the ProxySG appliance.
Implementing WCCP for ProxySG
Configure a Cisco router to transparently redirect Web traffic to the ProxySG via WCCP.
