Blue Coat Cloud Service managed security service

The global infrastructure of the Blue Coat Cloud Service utilises a meshed network in which all points of presence are interconnected, allowing users to connect with any individual point of presence as they move around the world. This unique mesh network delivers high availability for the Blue Coat Cloud Service and enables security without compromising performance, Blue Coat Systems claims.

The Blue Coat Cloud Service delivers robust threat protection that is backed by the Blue Coat WebPulse collaborative defence. The WebPulse defence receives more than one billion real-time requests daily from 75 million users worldwide, providing deep visibility into the web ecosystem and malnets (malware networks). By identifying and tracking malnets, the WebPulse defence can block attacks at their source, before they launch. Using this and other advanced analysis techniques, the WebPulse defence blocks 3.3 million threats per day.

The Blue Coat Cloud Service further enhances enterprise-grade protection service with the availability of CustomerView, a portal that gives users a customisable, centralised view of all customers utilising the service.

CustomerView enables users to: create customisable service offerings for granular content, application and access policy creation; access reporting on web behaviour to identify potentially infected end-user systems; and troubleshoot. Users can also easily manage customer billing and renewals through CustomerView.