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Blue Coat Partners with Lancope to Enhance Analysis by PacketShaper Appliances and Improve End User Experience

^{Published on 2009-01-26 06:38:17, Last Modified on 2009-01-26 06:40:05 - Market Wire}
 

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Lancope^®, the provider of the StealthWatch^® System - the most widely used Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and response solution, has joined the Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner program to enhancethe application intelligence provided by Blue Coat^® PacketShaper^® appliances with behavioral analysis to further improve end user experience. The Blue Coat and Lancope solution combines an application view of the network with a host-centric view, providing enterprises with the intelligence they need to optimize applications and improve business processes.

Limited, minimally integrated views of network usage, performance and host integrity, typically make it difficult to diagnose the source or root cause of a network incident, significantly delaying response time. Together, Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances and the Lancope StealthWatch System provide a comprehensive view into the network with advanced analysis that gives enterprises the tools they need to align application performance and end user experience with business processes.

"With PacketShaper appliances, we know which applications are on our network and can set bandwidth limits accordingly to enforce acceptable usage policies," said Mike Goodnow, senior network engineer at Concord Hospital, a New Hampshire-based healthcare company that is using the solution to gain a comprehensive view of applications and host information in a single console. "StealthWatch extends the benefits of PacketShaper by using the information from the appliances to rapidly troubleshoot network issues and pinpoint problem segments, ensuring maximum network availability."

By utilizing historical and trend analysis data, the Blue Coat and Lancope solution provides IT managers with the information they need to optimize network as well as to detect anomalies, zero-day security threats and application policy violations. Additionally, the solution facilitates forensic analysis and simplifies troubleshooting. The combination of Lancope's StealthWatch network behavioral analysis and the application visibility and control of Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances provides a window into host and user network activity, bandwidth utilization and application usage across the distributed enterprise network.

"Increasingly, distributed enterprises require more intelligence and visibility into the applications running on their networks and a more efficient way to analyze the information to better align network resources with business goals," said Dave Asprey, vice president of technology and corporate development at Blue Coat Systems. "By coupling the intelligence of PacketShaper appliances with the behavioral analysis of StealthWatch, enterprises gain a valuable set of tools that will help them to further optimize their networks and improve application performance."

Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances can automatically discover more than 650 applications and can track up to 2,048 classes or instances of each application. PacketShaper appliances also allow enterprises to monitor, in real-time, the performance of more than 100 statistics abouteach of those application instances, including bandwidth usage, end user response times and key troubleshooting stats. By building a profile of each application instance, PacketShaper appliances provide enterprises with a view into the end user experience.

Lancope's StealthWatch System continuously monitors, collects and analyzes flow data with rich application knowledge from Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to build and maintain a behavioral model of applications, systems and users. StealthWatch constantly monitors the flow data and compares it to the established model, looking at anomalies and isolating known and unknown threats at both network and host levels that may affect the availability of critical applications. By leveraging the flow data, enterprises can create and enforce application use policies and best practices.

"Flow-based behavioral profiling provides a low cost, low maintenance approach to optimizing network performance," said Adam Powers, chief technology officer at Lancope. "StealthWatch further extends the application analysis of PacketShaper appliances to provide enterprises with a holistic, real-time view of user behavior across the network environment from Layer 2 to Layer 7."

Learn more about how the joint solution provides unified application and host visibility for security and network operations at [ http://www.bluecoat.com/doc/direct/10195 ].

The Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner Program is designed to promote solutions that help organizations build a flexible and scalable application infrastructure. By partnering with best-in-class vendors to deliver interoperable solutions, Blue Coat offers customers a wide range of options for comprehensive Secure Web Gateway and WAN optimization deployments.

About Lancope

Lancope^®, Inc. is the provider of the StealthWatch^® System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution that unifies flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring to prevent costly downtime, repair and loss of reputation. StealthWatch streamlines security and network operations into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch received the 2008 Best in NetFlow Analysis Award and the 2007-2008 Global Excellence Awards in NBA. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, StealthWatch protects over 425 enterprise customers worldwide, including 17 U.S. Federal agencies, more than all direct competitors combined.

Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit [ www.lancope.com ].

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or [ www.bluecoat.com ].

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