Combined intrusion prevention suite

Blue Coat ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances will share real-time intelligence and reputation data with the Proofpoint on Demand hosted service and Messaging Security Gateway appliance to provide Blue Coat and Proofpoint users with increased protection against the latest email and web-based malware attacks.

The interoperable solution protects against inbound threats such as spam, viruses, phishing and denial-of-service attacks at the internet and email gateways.

Proofpoint’s email security, powered by the Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology, inspects hundreds of thousands of attributes in incoming email messages to detect and block spam, malware or phishing attempts. The Blue Coat ProxyAV appliance scans web traffic for malware, including encrypted SSL-traffic, while ProxySG acts as an enforcement point at the internet gateway for corporate IT policies. Additionally, ProxySG appliances work in conjunction with the Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service to provide up-to-date information on malware threats. With a background malware detection process, the WebPulse service can identify new and evolving threats and provide updates to ProxySG appliances every 5 minutes. These real-time content ratings provide a tool for users to categorise unknown content. The combined Blue Coat and Proofpoint solution is designed to provide users with the protection required to effectively combat evolving threats that attempt to enter the enterprise through email and web-based communications.