Blue Coat

Director/Reporter

Director

Powerful centralized change, configuration and policy management, Blue Coat Director automates change, policy and configuration management. It enables enterprises to easily standardize the configuration of Blue Coat appliances creating policies that can be globally applied or customized by region or to a logical group of devices. By using a single point of administration, IT staff no longer need to touch every device, maximizing productivity and allowing effective management of new issues and threats in a timely manner.

Business Problem:

Policy, configuration and device management enablement.

End User Core Features & Benefits 

  • Centrally manage new policies and configurations by device, group of devices, or region. 
  • Rapidly configure and deploy new devices. 
  • Easily upgrade installed systems. 
  • Proactively manage your network to prevent problems. 
  • Conserve valuable network resources with bandwidth policies and content pre-positioning.

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Reporter

Blue Coat Reporter analyzes comprehensive log files from Blue Coat ProsySG® in over 150 pre-defined reports, including spyware, IM, P2P and popular sites.  Beyond URL filtering, Reporter provides visibility to Web content, performance, threats, and trending over defined time periods.  

Business Problem:

Inability to quickly and adequately analyze large log files that contain web threats and overall visibility information of all Web-based user activity.

End User Core Features & Benefits

  • Quickly processes robust log data, providing easy-to-view reports for department managers, HR managers, security specialists, and network administrators. 
  • Interactive Reports Dashboard – Provides an intuitive, “drill-able” overview of user activity that’s automatically updated as new logs become available.
  • Real-Time Reporting – Continuous log uploads from one or more Proxy SG appliances provides up-to-the-minute views of users’ activities. 
  • Instant Reports – over 150 pre-defined reports for tracking all user web activities with analysis for traffic profiles, spyware, security/web AV, filtering categories (URLs), web content, users/authentication, technical profiles and sessions.
  • Scalable Performance - rapid processing of even the largest logs, while minimizing the amount of server disk space required.
  • Content Filtering and Trend Analysis - track users’ Web usage patterns.  Summary reports include access
  • attempts, blocked sites, access by category and much more.
  • Zoom Filters - dynamic drill-downs into comprehensive ProxySG log files. Spreadsheet style table allows virtually unlimited query flexibility.

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