Blue Coat ProxyClient

Blue Coat ProxyClient Overview:

Blue Coat ProxyClient helps deliver a headquarters work experience to all employees wherever they are. With ProxyClient, you can define which applications to accelerate and which to block based on security and bandwidth requirements. ProxyClient is administered with the ProxySG management console for easy provisioning, configuration and maintenance. It can also be distributed to end-user machines using standard software provisioning services and is automatically updated to minimize ongoing administrative time and resources.

With Blue Coat ProxyClient, you can:

• Improve the performance of applications, file access and downloads up to 35 times.
• Continuously analyze background Web content for hidden malware and rate new Web content.
• Optimize network efficiency and ProxySG network deployments.

Benefits:

Protect Remote Users from Malware and Threats
Leverages Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service that uses a large communitywatch grid of web gateway appliances and remote users to detect malware in both popular and unrated sites, adding a second-layer of protection in addition to anti-virus software on the laptop.

Ensure Productivity on the Road
Minimize lost end-user productivity from slow networks, malware and frivolous web surfing with remote web control and application acceleration of up to 35 times.

Accelerate Remote Access Performance for Business Processes
Accelerate access and reduce bandwidth of critical files, email and business applications for all remote users. This enables users to work from anywhere with an Internet connection, allowing them to be close to customers, partners – or home – and still drive the business forward.

Integrated, No-Cost, Easy to Deploy Solution
As an integrated part of the Blue Coat solution for application delivery, Blue Coat ProxyClient is a no-cost addition to your existing Blue Coat ProxySG infrastructure. Administered, deployed and centrally managed from any ProxySG, Blue Coat ProxyClient installs in seconds, is self-updating and requires no expensive management appliances or separate licenses.

Regain Control
The Client Manager provides centralized policy management that unifies acceptable Internet use by remote users. Encrypted logs are aggregated into centralized reports and drill down into remote client web activities for HR and IT requirements.

Any User, Any Network, Anywhere
Deployed for traveling employees, home workers, outsourced services, or key business partners, Blue Coat ProxyClient delivers the WAN optimization and Internet safety features that keep users productive by extending your corporate policies outside of the LAN and all the way to the endpoint.

Meet the Demands of Global Business

• Safely and confidently put employees close to customers and partners
• Maintain “local” response times and service levels – across key enterprise applications for all users
• Protect traveling and home workers from Internet threats
• Provide filtering policies to individual users of ProxyClient
• Keep remote, home and roaming users productive while surfing
• Accelerate backup of remote user data to protect against theft, accident or disasters
• Remove the need for IT services for small branch offices – or small branch offices entirely
• Speed up business processes – no more waiting for application responses with customers “on hold”

Features:

Remote Acceleration

Byte Caching
Reduce bandwidth usage and improve response times for remote users by removing redundant pieces of data (such as corporate logos in documents) from network traffic.

Object Caching
Store files (Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc.) locally to provide LAN-like performance for remote workers without the overhead of traditional wide area file services.

Protocol Optimization
Reduce inefficiencies within the CIFS protocol over unpredictable public networks and dramatically improve CIFS file sharing performance.

Compression
Reduce predictable patterns within TCP applications to improve utilization of network bandwidth by TCP applications.

Remote Web Filtering

Cloud Service Protection from Internet Threats
ProxyClient has a real-time relationship to the WebPulse cloud service that continuously analyzes web content in the background for hidden malware. ProxyClient is part of a larger "community watch" where each ProxyClient user requests benefits the entire community to detect malware and rate web content.

Real-time Rating Service
ProxyClient can utilize the dynamic web content rating service for unrated or newly published web content to enhance web content categorization and policy enforcement.

Log and Audit Internet Access and Potential Threats
Collect information on all remote web browsing, or just early warning on new malware and spyware attacks with logging and reporting integrated into your Blue Coat infrastructure.

Manageability & Reliability

Centralized Management
Configure, deploy and maintain ProxyClients through the Client Manager interface on your ProxySG with the ability to provide filtering policies to individual users and groups.

Automatic Load Balancing and Failover
Detect and failover to alternative ProxySGs when the primary concentrator is unavailable.

Location Awareness for Maximum Performance
Enable administrators to enable or disable ProxyClient acceleration and web filtering depending on ProxyClient's network location in relation to the ProxySG.

VPN Transparency
Deploy ProxyClient to VPN users without any changes to VPN configuration.

Visibility

Client-side Logging and Trace Files
Trouble shoot end-user problems quickly and easily through comprehensive logs and trace files.

Real-time Client Statistics
Monitor performance statistics in real-time through graphical client-side displays.

Technical Specifications:

Documentation:

Download the Blue Coat ProxyClient Datasheet (PDF).