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ProxySG 210 Series

The Blue Coat ProxySG 210 provides an affordable appliance solution for remote offices where direct Internet access requires accelerated performance of business applications and granular control of web communications. At the edge of an organization’s application delivery infrastructure, the ProxySG 210 provides controlled acceleration of business applications across the globally-distributed enterprise.

 

Leveraging Blue Coat’s MACH5 technology, users located at remote locations enjoy the same LAN-like performance and user experience as those located at headquarters or the data center. The ProxySG 210 platform also provides effective control of the enterprise’s Internet traffic, including gateway protection from web-based threats such as spyware, malicious mobile code, and phishing attacks.

Performance and Reliability — SGOS

The purpose-built proxy appliance provides flexible control with wire-speed performance allowing a company to advise, coach and enforce granular policies down to individual users. Key SGOS and platform highlights include:

• Secure object-based operating system with small footprint
• High-speed Web caching with advanced object pipelining and adaptive refresh
• Built-in pass-through network card, compression services, bandwidth management, plus optional SSL services
• Network functionality including:
  - Active/Active bridging support using virtual IP addressing for failover and remote installations
  - Routing configurations for gateway, route tables, RIP, DNS, and WCCP
  - Health checks performed on a forwarding host or external servers to verify status and availability of device
  - Configurable Time Services (UTC, NTP)
  - 19” Rack mountable (with kit) or portable use
• Integrated support services
  - View & submit service requests via the Blue Coat management interface
  - Send snapshots (trace files) to Blue Coat Support Services for faster problem resolution

Manageability — Policy Processing Engine

The patent-pending Policy Processing Engine enables sophisticated security triggers based on individual users, groups of users, time of day, location, protocol, user agent, content type and other attributes to initiate policy actions. These comprehensive capabilities include:

• Powerful management interface
  - Web-based management interface
  - Optional command line interface
  - SSH v2 and SSL/TLS administration
  - Alerting via SNMP, SMTP and logging administrative events
• Comprehensive policy definitions
  - Three policy files with settable evaluation order
  - Graphical Visual Policy Manager with layered policy definitions
  - Definable triggers and actions for policy definition
• Content Policy Language (CPL)
  - Create custom text-based policies to address unique policy requirements
  - Built-in text editor for CPL allows sample code to be copied and pasted from Blue Coat TechBriefs or Support Services advisories
• Authentication
  - Utilize a company’s existing authentication including local password files, NTLM, LDAP (Active Directory, eDirectory, SunOne), Netegrity Siteminder, Oblix, RADIUS and certificates
  - Multi-realm authentication sequencing
  - Forms-based authentication support
• Extended Management with Director
  - Distribute, backup, restore policy files for multiple ProxySG appliances
  - Manage policies by device, group, or region
  - Job scheduling/job status reporting

Control — Proxy Services

The ProxySG provides a layered policy approach allowing companies to balance their Web communication needs with current business and Internet risks. The ProxySG provides unmatched flexability and scalability.

• Proxy support for multiple protocols
  - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, SOCKS, P2P, AOL IM, Yahoo IM, Microsoft IM, MMS, RTSP, QuickTime, TCP-Tunnel, DNS
  - Compression services (HTTP + TCP)
  - Bandwidth management on all proxy services
• Content Filtering
  - On-proxy support of leading URL lists, popular regional lists, custom lists, or custom categories
  - Performance gains through integrated caching
• IM Logging and Controls
  - MSN, Yahoo!, AOL Messengers
  - Method level control settings
  - IM reflection for privacy
• Content Security
  - Block active content
  - Strip and replace Web content
• Web virus scanning
  - ProxyAV integration with ProxySG
  - Unmatched scalability and performance
  - Choice of anti-virus engines
• P2P file sharing controls
  - Log and block P2P traffic
  - Control BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella, and FastTrack
• Spyware Prevention and control
  - Block spyware while allowing legitimate applications, plus page views
  - Control pop-ups and phishing scams
• Streaming controls
  - MS, Real, QuickTime
  - Stream splitting & caching
• SSL Termination & Reverse Proxy
  - Application front-ending (e.g. MS OWA, CRM/Siebel, Lotus Notes), with optional SSL off-loading
  - Application acceleration to remote offices

Visibility — Management Reporting

Visibility is the key to managing employee Web communications in the enterprise. Blue Coat provides the tools needed to log and track user interactions over the Internet and across corporate boundaries.

• Default logging
  - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, SOCKS,P2P, TCP-Tunnel, ICP, IM, Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, DNS
  - Global log file limits and upload sizing
  - Client upload settings and scheduling
• Custom logging and trace files
  - Selectable fields/text/log formats
• Secure log transport off box
• SNMP Support
  - Trap settings, community strings
• Statistics
  - System usage
  - HTTP/FTP history
  - IM data
  - Streaming history
  - Resources
  - Efficiency
  - SOCKS client, connections, bytes
• Aggregate ProxySG logs with Reporter
  - Predefined report capability by user, network, security, IM, Top-10 summaries
  - Secure browser access/role-based viewing
  - User/session tracking/monitor by category
  - Stream logs aggregation with scheduled email reports

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