Blue Coat ProxySG

The software of Blue Coat ProxySG is intended for increasing the level of security of web communications and acceleration of delivery of business applications from the enterprise deleted to the central office.

ProxySG works on the SGOS operating system (Secure gateway Operation System) with the integrated compressed file functions and caching and popular Blue Coat-mechanism of processing corporate the politician includes.

Main Features

• Web traffic filtering.
• Anti-virus scanning of traffic and fight against potentially dangerous objects.
• Analysis of contents of traffic.
• Interpretation and the analysis of the ciphered traffic.
• Optimization of traffic.
• Monitoring of actions of users on the Internet.
• Traffic observation.
• Fight against information leak.
• Acceleration of work of network applications, stream media of contents and mail.
• Reduction of use of capacity of the channel and economy of traffic.
• Applications politician of access to the Internet.

Blue Coat ProxySG devices give the chance to the organizations actively to transfer users to more protected the web observer of Internet Explorer. The flexible policy of management and restriction of transition to the set pages promote reduction of risk of the browsers connected with vulnerabilities.

ProxySG devices can help the organizations to transfer users to Internet Explorer 9. Flexible management by ProxySG devices allows clients to implement policy of the user agents blocking access for employees who use earlier versions of Internet Explorer (for example, 6 or 7), to any website, except the website of loading Internet Explorer. Such blocking will be active until users do not update the observer to newer and safe version.

According to the report of Blue Coat on web security for 2011 the number of computer crimes using an exploit, the malicious code detecting vulnerabilities and unspecified updates in systems for the possible attack by malware increased. The service provider of a computer security of Secunia who is engaged in search of vulnerabilities in the software and operating systems published 115 warnings of 227 weak spots in Internet Explorer 6 and 51 warning of 152 weak spots in Internet Explorer 7 from the moment of an exit of each of them. Earlier versions of the observer and not updated operating systems can put safety of users at bigger risk from selective, target delivery of malware which are difficult for detecting.

In addition to forced application of policy of the ProxySG device can perform monitoring of all user agents and software versions in network of the company, providing IT managers with tools for determination of the user agents and software versions requiring updating and assessment of possible risks. ProxySG devices also give the chance to IT managers to create pages which will direct users to the website of loading Internet Explorer or the internal server on which updates of the observer are located.

With the advent of Internet Explorer 9 the Microsoft company actively recommends to users to pass with Internet Explorer 6 to more advanced versions of the observer. Now Internet Explorer 6 occupies 11 percent of all market of Internet observers with a significant amount of users in the Pacific Rim while users of Internet Explorer 7 make 8.8 percent of the market.

ProxySG devices are principal components of the solution Secure Web Gateway of Blue Coat and provide flexible management that gives the chance to the organizations to implement corporate security policy. Devices work in interaction with service Blue Coat WebPulse which integrates more than 70 million users for protection on the basis of cloud computing to provide general awareness and the analysis of new and unknown web contents, including malware.

Web Control received the FSTEC certificate on the software of Blue Coat

In the summer of 2012 the Web Control company, distributor of security systems and the master distributor of Blue Coat, certified the software of Blue Coat company (SGOS ver. 6.2) as an information security product, not containing the data which are the state secret (certificate of conformity No. 2676). The certified software is the operating system which is built in flagman Blue Coat devices - ProxySG.

Now devices on the basis of software of Blue Coat can be used for data protection in all information systems working with personal data to the 2nd class inclusive including public institutions.

According to laws and regulations of the Russian Federation, the software certified by FSTEC is recommended to be used to the state organizations and the organizations working with personal data of citizens. Application of the certified software allows to standardize also jobs of users that is necessary for obligatory certification of automation objects in the state organizations.