VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Blue Coat Systems and NetApp have joined forces and are working together to provide high-density storage solutions that enable extended network forensic analysis. This combination of NetApp’s high-density storage and Blue Coat’s Security Analytics incident response and forensics solution provides customers a high-performance and high-density storage solution that significantly expands the capture window from weeks to months within the same physical footprint. Customers can retain more valuable evidence that can help limit exposure in the event of a breach, together with the ability to replay and reconstruct exactly how the attacker compromised the system and what was extracted. “Security professionals rely on an unprecedented volume of data that they must be able to swiftly capture, control and analyze. At NetApp, we ensure that security professionals have the freedom and mobility to access the data and insights they need and support key data security and complian...

Blue Coat Systems has roped in Nick Noviello as New Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Noviello brings an extensive financial and operational expertise with global, publicly-traded companies. He will report directly to Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat, and will be responsible for leading the company’s finance, information technology (IT), human resources, manufacturing and supply chain teams. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Nick to the Blue Coat team. Nick’s financial leadership experience in large public companies will be invaluable to us. His experience across both technology and the traditional industries of our customers makes him an extraordinary fit for Blue Coat today and our aggressive plans for the future. I have no doubt that he is going to have a significant and immediate impact on the company, as well as serve the strategic long-term objectives of our investors,” said Clark... Read more

Blue Coat Systems has announced it has signed a worldwide agreement with Dimension Data   to deliver its global managed cloud web security service. Dimension Data plans to roll out this new offering worldwide beginning in the first quarter of 2016. Combining Blue Coat’s award-winning Cloud Generation Web Gateway with Dimension Data’s global managed security services portfolio provides customers with real-time threat protection – all without the need for on-site equipment. This new offering also helps organizations deploy new secure, cost-effective cloud service and web applications. In addition, customers are able to enforce consistent global security policies across wired, roaming, and mobile environments... Read more

After the significant acquisition of cloud innovator Elastica by Blue Coat Systems, the company has introduced a new set of cloud generation products and features to its market-leading Blue Coat Security Platform, integrating essential components required for protecting enterprises in today’s rapidly-changing IT environment. These “Cloud Generation” capabilities represent a major evolution of the Secure Web Gateway, combining Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF), and encrypted traffic management (SSL), significantly advancing Blue Coat’s web and cloud security solution. Together with the CloudSOC capabilities from Elastica and the encryption and tokenization technology from the Perspecsys acquisition, Blue Coat’s Cloud Generation Gateway forms a foundation of the Blue Coat Security Platform, leveraging Blue Coat’s expertise in network, security and cloud to ensure protection of both existing ... Read more ...

Blue Coat Systems has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by funds advised by Bain Capital, one of the world’s foremost private investment firms. The company is being acquired from Thoma Bravo, LLC in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.4 billion. Over the past three years, Blue Coat has experienced a significant increase in its market share across the globe, where 80 per cent of the Fortune 500 are its customers. In India, Blue Coat has realized a year-on-year growth rate of 45 per cent and has a customer portfolio of more than 400 companies. Globally, the company has also made several successful strategic acquisitions extending their solutions to the advanced threat defence, security analytics and encrypted traffic management spaces. Blue Coat offers an integrated portfolio of products that lead the industry in effectiveness in stopping today’s threats. “The world’s most-trusted brands use Blue Coat, and the acquisition ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Blue Coat Systems has announced appointment of Michael Fey as President and Chief Operating Officer effective immediately. Fey brings operational and go-to-market expertise that will drive revenue growth and extend the reach of Blue Coat in the market. He will report to Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark. As President and COO, Fey will bring to Blue Coat a critical focus on aligning the company’s leading web security, encryption management, cloud offerings and advanced threat protection solutions with customer requirements. Additionally, he will be responsible for field and customer-facing business operations, and collaborating on strategy. “Blue Coat has successfully established itself as a market leader over the last three years by building an integrated portfolio of security solutions, aggressively acquiring companies to enhance that portfolio and delivering best-in-class threat protection. Now is the time for us to dri...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In order to automate advanced threat protection at the internet gateway,  Blue Coat Systems  has introduced the  Blue Coat Content Analysis System with malware analysis . The Content Analysis System blocks known threats, as well as detects and analyzes both zero-day and advanced malware, sharing new threat intelligence to continually fortify the network. This will allow organizations to bridge the gap between the day-to-day security operations team and the advanced security team that is focussed on incident containment and resolution. Ambarish Deshpande, Managing Director, Blue Coat Systems , stated, A recent Economist Intelligence Unit survey reported, 74% of the Indian companies believe empowering employees to be Tech Autonomous will make their business more efficient, while 69% believed it had a direct positive impact on revenue growth. This makes our Advanced Threat Protection Solution, which uniquely allows b...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Blue Coat Systems Inc  has entered into an agreement to  acquire Crossbeam Systems Inc.  The buyout brings two tech giants together for offering complementary technologies to scale and secure complex networks.  By acquiring  Crossbeam , Blue Coat is laying the foundation for a broader strategy to transform the way businesses secure and optimize their networks. “Our service provider and enterprise customers are excited that we are bringing together two complementary technologies,” said  Greg Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Coat Systems. ....... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Blue Coat has introduced its Secure Web Gateway Virtual Appliance for small branch offices . The new Virtual Appliance will provide customers the flexibility to choose the deployment model that best meets their security requirements on a location-by-location basis.  “The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway Virtual Appliance is a simple and powerful way to seamlessly extend the same on-premise threat protection and policies that ProxySG appliances provide at the corporate gateway to branch offices in India with limited IT staff,” said Ambarish Deshpande, Blue Coat Managing Director – India Sales... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Blue Coat has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway by research and advisory firm Gartner. Ambarish Deshpande, Managing Director, India Sales, Blue Coat, said, "The achievement was a reflection of the company's continued leadership in security. Blue Coat leads Web security with its Unified Security solutions that are now imperative for protecting companies against increasingly devastating Web threats. At the same time, our unique Unified Security safely enables companies to embrace mobility, and bring your own device initiatives." In its latest report, Gartner revealed that leaders in the Magic Quadrant must possess certain characteristics. This includes the chosen vendors becoming high momentum players with established track records in web gateway security. In addition, these companies must possess the vision and business investments, which indicate that they are wel...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has achieved certification for EAL4+level security under the Canadian Communications Security Establishment's (CSE) Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS) for its SGOS 6.1 operating system on its Blue Coat ProxySG 600, 900 and 9000-10 and 9000-20 appliances. "The EAL4+ certification reflects Blue Coat's strong commitment to security and the strength and quality of our products. By meeting or exceeding the most stringent government and military requirements, we provide every customer with the confidence of knowing they have the industry's leading Web security," said Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Senior Vice- President, Corporate and Business Development, Blue Coat Systems. In order to facilitate completion of the Common Criteria certification, Blue Coat contracted with Corsec Security, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in assisting commercial vendors through the complex proces...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has issued its 2012 Web Security Report that identifies and analyzes trends in malicious attacks over the past year and makes recommendations on strategies to keep companies safe. In 2011, the most significant evolution in the threat landscape was the use of malware networks, or malnets, to launch Web-based attacks. These complex infrastructures, which outlast any one attack, drove a 240% increase in the number of malicious sites during the year and are expected to launch as many as two-thirds of all new attacks in 2012. The Blue Coat2012 Web Security Report details the strategies and tactics that malnet operators deploy to snare users and funnel them to dynamic malware payloads, or software which surreptitiously installs on users computers designed for malicious or criminal purposes. "In 2011, the ease of buying, customizing and deploying malicious software kits, coupled with a faster rotation through domain names, dr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems Inc. has announced that it has added the ability to scale and optimize encrypted Adobe Flash video in addition to the video delivery capabilities already integrated with Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances. The MACH5 solution includes a combination of stream-splitting, pre-population and advanced video caching technologies to scale the use of live or on-demand internal company video, as well as external Web video, with minimal network impact. This prevents video from saturating a company's Wide Area Network (WAN) or Internet gateway, or crippling the performance of other business critical applications while making video available to employees throughout the company. Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Blue Coat Systems Inc. said, "Most companies want to significantly increase their use of internal video for training and communication but are limited by the capacity constraints of their existi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers by Gartner, Inc. Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances and virtual appliances is believed to provide traditional and WAN optimization to reduce network costs and accelerate performance of important enterprise applications, file access, backup and email in addition to, live and on-demand video, Web content and Web-based and cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Blue Coat Systems said, "The requirements for WAN optimization are changing dramatically. The increasing adoption of video, Web-based applications and cloud computing services require that a next generation of WAN optimization solutions support new performance needs. Blue Coat uniquely addresses WAN optimization requirements for both traditional data types and applications...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by San Francisco-based private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. The Blue Coat Board of Directors has approved the agreement and resolved to recommend that the shareholders of Blue Coat adopt this agreement. The investor group is led by Thoma Bravo and includes the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Teachers') through its private investor department, Teachers' Private Capital. Under the terms of the agreement, Blue Coat shareholders will receive $25.81 in cash for each share of Blue Coat common stock they hold, representing a premium of approximately 48% over Blue Coat's closing price on December 8, 2011 and a premium of approximately 62% over the 60-day trailing average for the period ended December 8, 2011. "Blue Coat has strong, differentiated products for protec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has appointed Ambarish Deshpande as Managing Director of India, responsible for sales, alliance strategies and growth of the Indian market. Deshpande will report to Steve Rowland, Vice President of Sales for Blue Coat in Asia Pacific. Steve Rowland said, "An established sales veteran with more than 17 years of experience, Ambrish has an impressive record in building teams, driving market expansion and putting successful channel strategies in place. His extensive network and proven business acumen will help Blue Coat provide next generation WAN optimization and Web security solutions to enterprises throughout India." Deshpande said, "Blue Coat is uniquely positioned with its forward-thinking solutions and technology that help enterprises safely and effectively leverage the transformational forces of the Web and Cloud for their networks. I look forward to leading the team and increasing our presence in India, w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ambarish Deshpande, Former Director, Alliance, Channels & Mid-Market, South Asia, McAfee, India will now join Blue Coat India operations with a focus on channel expansion. He is expected to join by November 15. Deshpande said, "I will be joining Blue Coat by the mid of November. My focus will be to consolidate the company's pan-India presence. In addition, I will be responsible for driving the company's channel roadmap." With more than 17 years of experience in the security industry, Deshpande will bring his experience in growing new businesses and driving growth through channel and enterprise sales. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. Cloud-Connector allows companies with Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions deployed in branch or remote offices to instantly apply Web security from the Blue Coat Cloud Service. Having secure "branch-to-cloud" direct Internet access, enables companies to stop the common practice of backhauling Internet traffic to and from the corporate data center and offers a chance to re-architect the Wide Area Network (WAN) to meet the new application realities. Branch-to-cloud topology lowers networking costs and speeds access to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. "With the rapid adoption of cloud-based services and applications, companies are re-thinking the typical enterprise standard of routing Internet traffic from branch offices through a central data center or headquarters. If an enterprise can easily get...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has announced that its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliance has won the Computerworld Singapore Readers' Choice Award 2011 in the WAN Accelerator category. The Readers' Choice Awards are conferred on IT vendors selected by professionals in the IT community based on price, performance, functionality and ease of use. "This third consecutive win of the Computerworld award affirms the value and uniqueness of our next-generation approach to WAN optimization by solving a broader set of challenges facing IT. The Readers' Choice Award signals that the industry is expecting WAN optimization solutions to work harder at solving wider business challenges particularly given the swift growth of video and Cloud- or Web-based applications," said Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Senior Vice- President, Blue Coat Systems. "WAN optimization requirements are evolving in ways never seen before, as IT seeks to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has announced that its WebPulse collaborative defense reached a significant milestone by serving one billion requests in a single day. The high volume of requests gives Blue Coat comprehensive visibility into Web and malware ecosystems, allowing Blue Coat Security Labs to more effectively identify and track malnets (malware networks) to proactively protect 75 million users from new attacks. Of the one billion requests, there were more than one million requests to Malware Sources and an additional 1.4 million requests for Malicious Outbound Data/Botnets, indicating that a significant number of infected computers were attempting to contact command and control servers. More than 3 million requests were for content categorized as Suspicious, which is often associated with known malnets. Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Marketing, Blue Coat Systems "WebPulse is a powerful defense that analyzes and correlates a mass...