Blue Coat Mobile Device Security (MDS)

Blue Coat vyvovet in the fall of 2012 on the Mobile Device Security market: the new solution ensuring safe functioning of mobile applications and devices in corporate environment.

New service provides to employees such access to network which they want and the organizations - security which is necessary to them.

This service allows the organizations to expand the security perimeter and to turn on in it any IOS-DEVICES where they would not be. The solution of the class SaaS (security-as-a-service), allows the organizations to close a gap in protection which appears when using mobile applications and devices in corporate network.

The Blue Coat MDS service works at the network layer, but not at the level of devices, thereby extending the same level of protection and control which exists in corporate network to mobile systems. Such approach allows the organizations to use bravely mobile devices in corporate environment, providing three key functions:

• Expanded protection. The MDS service uses the cloud system of joint protection WebPulse and the class security system, only in the market, "a day before that day" (Negative Day Defense), allowing to protect devices from the most cunning web threats.
• Granular control of applications and transactions. Unlike the solutions working at device level which just block the application and do not offer an opportunity of control, MDS provides careful control for both types of applications - actually mobile and working via the mobile browser. Similar control allows to use the flexible security policies providing full protection for mobile systems.
• The security policies depending on a context. For ensuring balance between providing the necessary access level to all users and security requirements, MDS service the politician who works at a basis of knowledge of users, devices on which they work of arrangement of these devices and content uses a reliable system. The similar flexibility allows to create the conditions meeting requirements both employees, and the organizations in general without violating at the same time the safety rule.

The MDS service works based on Blue Coat Cloud Service, the global service infrastructure providing the high level of performance and reliability of rendering services of the level of 99.999%.

MDS allows mobile devices to receive the same level of protection which provides use of the Blue Coat ProxySG systems in corporate network because the configuration and use of security policies is performed within the common decision of Blue Coat Unified Security. Blue Coat Unified Security is the only solution in the industry which is used identical structure by the politician and protection for all models of implementation, providing the identical level of protection against threats and control of network for all users, is not dependent on their arrangement.

The service of Blue Coat Mobile Device Security will be available to customers since December 10, 2012. In Russia this service can be ordered through the master distributor of Blue Coat in Russia Web Control company.