New Zealand’s national telecommunications provider offers Blue Coat Cloud Service as managed security offering

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimisation solutions, today announced that Kordia, New Zealand’s national broadcast and telecommunications provider, is delivering the Blue Coat Cloud Service as a managed security offering for businesses that want to extend corporate security and compliance policies to protect their users on all networks in any location. The Blue Coat Cloud Service delivers the enterprise-grade threat protection technology that is used by 85 percent of the FORTUNE Global companies.

The Kordia managed security offering, which will be hosted in New Zealand, expands the global presence of the Blue Coat Cloud Service, giving all customers of the service a new point of presence through which to access it when they are roaming in the region. The global infrastructure of the Blue Coat Cloud Service utilises a meshed network in which all points of presence, including the one hosted at Kordia, are interconnected, allowing customers 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.

“Enterprise-class security that can follow users as they move from location to location and network to network is crucial for businesses struggling to mitigate the risks of data loss and web-based malware threats,” said Bruce Bennie, managing director for Blue Coat Systems in Australia and New Zealand. “With the Blue Coat Cloud Service powering its new managed security offering, Kordia can deliver to their customers the comprehensive protection and granular controls they need.”

The Blue Coat Cloud Service delivers robust threat protection that is backed by the Blue Coat WebPulse™ collaborative defense. The WebPulse defense 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), the infrastructures embedded in the Internet that are utilised to launch ongoing attacks against unsuspecting users. By identifying and tracking malnets, the WebPulse defense can block attacks at their source, before they launch. Using this and other advanced analysis techniques, the WebPulse defense 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 Kordia a customisable, centralised view of all customers utilising the service. CustomerView enables Kordia to:

• Create customisable service offerings for granular content, application and access policy creation; reporting on web behavior to identify potentially infected end user systems; and troubleshooting
• Easily manage customer billing and renewals

“With more employees accessing social media sites like Facebook and utilising web-based applications at the workplace, it’s vital for businesses to have a robust web security solution in place,” says Drew Gilpin, general manager at Kordia. “Blue Coat’s industry-leading solution allows us to create a truly unique service offering that will enhance the customer experience for New Zealand businesses that require robust, comprehensive protection and control that can extend to their employees wherever they are.”

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions. Blue Coat offers solutions that provide the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and enhancethe end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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