Jon’s Network

Along the lines of the free filtering you get when you use OpenDNS (that I mentioned here and here), Blue Coat has a free client designed to run on home computers:

K9 Web Protection - Free Internet Filtering and Parental Controls Software

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iShared, the nifty little WAFS product that Packeteer got when they bought Tacit Networks a couple years back, will likely be dropped by Blue Coat from what I have heard. Blue Coat mentioned that they planned on rejuvenating Packetshaper as a standalone product as well as integrating some Packetshaper technologies into the ProxySG appliances. [...]

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Stan Trevena, IT director for Modesto City Schools, penned The Internet Filtering Battlefield and describes the constant struggle to keep student and faculty behavior inline with the acceptable use policy. This is important to keep students safe and to keep the district out of legal trouble.

It is a great article that explains exactly how users [...]

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When I found out that Fortinet and Riverbed were forming an alliance to “uniquely” address security and acceleration, I immediately thought of Blue Coat, who has been taking this WAN-optimization and security approach for about two years now. The Fortinet/Riverbed alliance just validates the Blue Coat approach in my eyes. If you watch [...]

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When Blue Coat is under full load caching, filtering, scanning, authenticating, etc. just turn off caching and the thing will cough and sputter. You see, Blue Coat was once CacheFlow and their security policy engine, SGOS, was designed under the assumption that caching would always be there. For Blue Coat, caching isn’t [...]

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