Blue Coat expands its security platform to introduce new cloud generation products

 MUMBAI: On the heels of Blue Coat’s acquisition of cloud innovator Elastica, the California-based company has introduced a new set of cloud generation products and features to its Security Platform, integrating essential components required for protecting enterprises in the rapidly changing IT environment.

These “Cloud Generation” capabilities represent a major evolution of the Secure Web Gateway, combining Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF), and encrypted traffic management (SSL). Together with the CloudSOCTM capabilities from Elastica and the encryption and tokenization technology from the Perspecsys acquisition, Blue Coat’s Cloud Generation GatewayTM  forms a foundation of the Blue Coat Security Platformwith the company’s know-how of network, security and cloud to ensure protection of both existing and future computing environments.

Blue Coat announced five new product offerings to address these challenges:

• CASB Visibility and Access Security extend Blue Coat’s Secure Web Gateway to deliver cloud application risk management capabilities. This allows organizations to safely control sanctioned cloud operations, and manage shadow IT usage.
• Cloud Data Protection organizations traditionally lose control of their data when it is placed inside of cloud applications. Blue Coat’s Cloud Data Protection delivers tokenization and encryption to ensure data residency compliance and security, and allows customers to maintain complete control of their data as they use cloud applications.
• Advanced Secure Gateway, a new model in Blue Coat’s line of secure web gateways, delivers consolidated content analysis for ATP, which combines anti-virus scanning, whitelisting, static code analysis and orchestration for sandbox analysis.
• Cloud Generation Intelligence Services provides risk intelligence for web, cloud applications, files, and advanced threats to deliver up-to-the-moment threat data from Blue Coat’s Global Intelligence Network.
• Integrated WAF delivers third generation capabilities for protecting inbound application services for organizationally owned data center and cloud applications.

Capabilities from Elastica’s CloudSOC, such as full cloud application DLP and cloud breach detection, auditing and forensics, will be integrated into the Blue Coat Security Platform and the Cloud Generation Gateway feature set.

“Massive shifts in usage of cloud applications and services are driving dramatic new requirements that are begging for a new approach to security,” said Michael Fey, president and COO, Blue Coat.

“As organizations rethink how they secure in the cloud age, it is important that they not only protect and control interactions with cloud applications, but have an easily extensible and elastic solution. The current trend offered by niche vendors forces customers into a situation where they have spread a single cloud interaction by a user across multiple solutions and multiple clouds. Doing so injects complexity, delay and ambiguity into their defensive posture, which is not a viable option. The Blue Coat Security Platform and our Cloud Generation capabilities deliver customers a new and unprecedented level of security and integration in this cloud age,” added Fey.