Complete Protection and Control
ProxySG provides comprehensive protection and control over web traffic. It enables the following functions: Strong user authentication, web filtering, deep inspection of content for data loss or threats, security checks to the Blue Coat WebPulse collaborative defense, inspection and validation of SSL traffic, content caching and traffic optimization, bandwidth management, streaming media splitting and caching, and method level controls per protocol. It also has the ability to filter, strip or replace web content. Its new Web Application Policy Engine provides granular visibility and control over web applications. ProxySG is the ultimate foundation for a secure web gateway with its content controls and policy flexibility. It can also provide the unique ability to deliver web security and acceleration in one solution to a branch office. This all enables branch users to have access directly to the internet, with the same security coverage as those users in the main office.
Layered Defenses Security Framework
When deployed with Blue Coat WebFilter, ProxySG includes WebPulse, the collaborative cloud defense uniting over 75M users for web awareness and response to web content and threats. Together they create a hybrid design providing the best of on-premise controls with the collective intelligence of a cloud service. ProxySG integrates seamlessly with the Blue Coat Cloud Service to offer a hybrid solution for mobile device and remote user protection and filtering. ProxySG with ProxyAV enables the highest performing inline threat analysis, including SSL, with a choice of leading anti-malware engines. And data loss prevention integration is securely enabled with S-ICAP or standard ICAP on ProxySG with certified DLP partners.
Unmatched Performance and Reliability
ProxySG innovations in new hardware platforms with multiple cores and the SGOS operating system with multi-threading provide up to 1Gbps throughput for high availability deployments and scale 5X beyond the previous generation. SGOS is a micro kernel built for web object processing, secure and small in design, it rarely needs attention or patches, and it runs year after year at performance levels beyond the competition. Health checks and monitoring provide administrator awareness, and Blue Coat Director enables centralized device, license and policy management of ProxySG web gateways.