Spyware and adware pose security and privacy risks for the enterprise. Users, often unknowingly, download spyware - and web content providers are financially incented to disperse spyware agents. This results in backdoors, key loggers, information collection, compromised information defenses, privacy breaches, and network abuse as spyware quietly "calls home."
Spyware leverages multiple vectors to be successful, making silver bullet defenses using coarse-grained controls useless and unproductive, impeding critical web-based business communications. No single technique can filter out spyware and adware to defend against the threat.
Content Control from Blue Coat provides a preventative spyware defense that combines multiple techniques in a high-performance solution acceptable for web-based business communications. Latency is minimal and the protection layers are comprehensive to stop, block and scan spyware - without impeding business processes.
Stop Spyware Installations
Spyware often secretly installs via "drive-by" installers, which install spyware in the background without any user interaction. Content Control from Blue Coat combats this with anti-spyware policy controls that inspect, filter and block Web content associated with spyware installation software. This preventive approach is critical when spyware originates from an unknown Web site and when there is no known signature available to detect the malicious program. Content Control from Blue Coat combined with Blue Coat's ProxySG™ appliances provide the necessary policy controls over Web content down to individual users - with the flexibility enterprises need to ensure availability of Web applications.
Block Spyware Web Sites
Content Control from Blue Coat combines reporting features with state-of-the-art URL filtering to block known spyware and adware Web sites. These capabilities can block both attempted infections from known spyware Web sites, as well as spyware attempting to "phone home" to a known spyware domain.
Scan for Spyware Signatures
Content Control from Blue Coat combined with ProxyAV™ gives users the ability to scan Web traffic for known spyware signatures using proven third party anti-virus scanning engines. The ProxyAV provides high-performance Web traffic virus scanning with low latency.
Only Content Control from Blue Coat combined with Blue Coat's ProxySG and ProxyAV solution stops, blocks and scans spyware at the gateway, giving your organization a complete defense against spyware.
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