On the heels of Blue Coat's significant acquisition of cloud innovator
Elastica,Inc. last week,
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. today introduced a new set of cloud generation products and features to its market-leading
Blue Coat Security Platform, integrating essential components required for protecting enterprises in today's 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),
significantly advancing Blue Coat's industry-leading web and cloud
security solution. Together with the CloudSOC
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 Platform,
leveraging Blue Coat's expertise in 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 market-leading Secure Web Gateway to deliver comprehensive
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 market-leading
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 quickly 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, Blue Coat president and COO.
"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."
A New Security Solution for Today's IT Environment
Maintaining Control Over The Evolving Network
Seismic shifts in the enterprise IT environment are
driving a requirement to rethink security. New connectivity options have
emerged, and encrypted traffic is on the rise, creating blind spots for
security controls. Wi-Fi and 4G/5G have become the standard
connectivity norm even in the office, causing the traditional network
perimeter to essentially dissolve, and cloud services like
salesforce.com and Box to foster new work patterns. In this changing
environment, the Blue Coat Cloud Generation Gateway delivers absolute
security by providing full visibility and control for web and cloud
access, regardless of location, from any device, even if the traffic is
encrypted.
Facilitating Migration to Cloud
Sanctioned cloud adoption and shadow IT spawned by the
easy availability of click-to-compute cloud applications and services
like Box or AWS are creating concerns around cloud data security, data
residency and compliance. Further, these shifts mean that organizations
will require new virtual form factors and agile capabilities to
dynamically adapt within an elastic public and private cloud world. The
Cloud Generation Gateway focuses on these industry shifts, allowing
customers to assess and control the risk of unsanctioned cloud usage,
while adding critical security controls to eliminate data leakage,
retain data residency through tokenization, maintain compliance for
sanctioned cloud applications, and protect corporate data center and
cloud applications.
Securing the Endpoint and Connected Device Revolution
Endpoints have evolved beyond the traditional computing
platforms of servers and desktops, yet the security controls for the
next generation endpoint have not evolved with them. Connected computing
environments like mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) introduce new
attack surfaces that must be protected, yet unfortunately endpoint
security controls are not the answer. Organizations leveraging these new
devices are simply unable to deploy endpoint security controls because
these devices lack the interfaces to do so. The best way to effectively
protect these devices is via Cloud Generation Gateways, which can broker
the interactions these devices have with the world around them. Doing
so allows organizations to perform in-depth inspection and gain complete
visibility, even when endpoint security cannot be used.
The Cloud Generation Gateway is an essential component of The
Blue Coat Security Platform which addresses evolving network, security
and cloud requirements with five advanced solutions that work equally
well across on-premise and cloud-managed environments:
- Advanced web and cloud security
- Encrypted traffic management
- Advanced threat protection
- Incident response and network forensics
- Network performance and optimization