Blue Coat proxy appliances provide control of web communications to address today's new business risks-such as inappropriate web surfing, viruses brought in via back door channels such as instant messaging and web-based email and network resource abuse due to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and video streaming. Today Blue Coat is trusted by many of the world's most influential organisations with more than 30,000 proxy appliances shipped worldwide.
Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimise security and accelerate performance for all users and applications. Blue Coat is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market.
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., was founded in 1996, (NASDAQ: BCSI) and is a publicly-held company based in Sunnyvale, California.