Blue Coat Systems has introduced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) family of appliances, which provide data loss protection for traffic on the network, including email and web content, and data at rest in databases or on servers with a unified management system in a single, integrated platform.
The company claims that the new appliances can typically be operational in one day or less, including installation and configuration; policy definition and content fingerprinting; initial monitoring and inspection of traffic; and incident analysis. They enable administrators to configure the most critical functions first and add additional functionality over time.
According to Blue Coat, the DLP appliances incorporate advanced fingerprinting technology and support over 600 document types and most common languages, including those that require multi-byte characters. They integrate with ProxySG appliances using the ICAP protocol, which enables the DLP appliance to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic and serve as the enforcement point to block, forward or encrypt sensitive information.
Blue Coat said that the new appliances add an additional layer of defence to the Secure Web Gateway offering that combines presence at the corporate web gateway with a collaborative cloud defence. The integration of the DLP appliances into this offering extends data loss policies to SSL-encrypted traffic, such as webmail, and prevents endpoints infected with malicious software from sending sensitive data and confidential information to ‘phone-home’ websites.
Carrie Oakes, vice president of product marketing at Blue Coat Systems, said: "The Blue Coat DLP appliances provide a no compromise approach to data loss protection that supports enterprise-class DLP functionality in an easy-to-deploy solution.
"By extending the Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution to include our new DLP appliances, we now provide our customers with layered, comprehensive security that prevents malicious content from entering the network and sensitive content from leaving the network."
