Blue Coat Systems Research Report Sample

A secure Web gateway (SWG) is a solution that filters unwanted software/malware from user-initiated Web/Internet traffic and enforces corporate and regulatory policy compliance. To achieve this goal, SWGs must, at a minimum, include URL filtering, malicious-code detection and filtering, and application controls for popular Web-based applications, such as instant messaging (IM) and Skype. Native or integrated data leak prevention (DLP) is also increasingly included.

This market is rapidly emerging as a stand-alone market from historically distinct markets, such as proxies/caches, URL filtering and antivirus gateways...