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Content Control from Blue Coat provides unmatched Internet management with Internet policy enforcement and a relevant, always-fresh database of categorized ratings and domains. Blue Coat's next generation Internet management solution secures all types of computers and handheld devices – wired to wireless – resulting in a safer more productive Internet experience. This breakthrough filtering solution, available through a growing list of technology partners, places the technology and processing burden on Blue Coat, offering an organization’s overworked team of network professionals, well-deserved relief.

Content Control from Blue Coat is unlike any other filtering solution available. This solution eliminates new hardware integration, tedious daily database updates, and constant network alerts commonly associated with filtering application problems and conflicts. While many Web filtering solutions merely replace headaches with new IT aches and pains, Content Control from Blue Coat uses technology to manage Internet access and improve the overall filtering process.

Content Control from Blue Coat features the following unique advantages:

Real-time site rating technology ensures the most accurate filtering solution
Unlike other filtering solutions, Content Control from Blue Coat realizes that a URL database alone is not enough to catch new and uncategorized Web content, which is constantly being added to the Web. As a result, Content Control from Blue Coat analyzes all requested Web pages in real-time to ensure the highest level of protection while building the most relevant ratings database available, resulting in effective coverage of more than 1 billion Web pages.

Managed service platform eliminates set up cost and ongoing management hassle
As a managed service, Content Control from Blue Coat eliminates the added cost and burden that traditional locally hosted,server-based filtering solutions place on an organization’s IT staff.

Platform diversity allows freedom of deployment
Delivered as an integrated component on a variety of 3rd party gateway devices, service solutions, and security software applications, Content Control from Blue Coat, unlike any other solution, allows organizations to choose how they prefer to deploy and manage their Internet security.

Easy to install and manage
As a hosted service, Content Control from Blue Coat is the easiest corporate filtering solution to get up and running. Its Web-based interface is simple and painless, enabling the access of policies and reports from virtually any Internet enabled PC.