provides proxy appliances that control user communications and content over the Internet.
Its ProxySG family of appliances includes the ProxySG 400 Series, the ProxySG 800 Series, and the ProxySG 8000 Series.
The company’s ProxyAV Web antivirus appliances include the ProxyAV 400 Series and the ProxyAV 2000 Series.
The company also offers Visual Policy Manager that provides a graphical way to develop and implement an organization’s Web security policies; The Blue Coat Reporter, a log processing and reporting product that generates out-of-the-box reports tailored for the ProxySG appliance; The Blue Coat Director that delivers scalable change management for ProxySG appliances; and Blue Coat WinProxy SecureSuite, an Internet sharing software package.
It offers its products through it sales teams, resellers, systems integrators, and distributors.
The company was founded in 1996 as CacheFlow, Inc.
and changed its name to Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
in 2002.
Blue Coat Systems is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
