Broadband-Testing Laboratories Shows WebFilter Recognized and Accurately
Categorized Greatest Number of URLs
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA CONFERENCE, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blue
Coat(R) Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application
delivery, today announced that a new report from Broadband-Testing
Laboratories, Europe's foremost independent network testing facility and
consultancy organization, shows Blue Coat WebFilter to have the highest level
of recognition and accuracy in classifying URLs among those tested. The test,
conducted in Moux, France, compared Blue Coat WebFilter to Websense v6.1,
SmartFilter v4, Surf Control and ALSI Intersafe.
The test shows that WebFilter accurately categorized a significantly
higher number of URLs -- 2.4 times as many as Websense, 1.5 times as many as
SmartFilter, 1.3 times as many as SurfControl and 3.8 times as many as
Intersafe -- across all the "super categories" the laboratory determined for
pornography, criminal/illegal, gambling, hate/violence, spyware and weapons.
Accuracy is an extremely important aspect of URL filtering. As the report
notes in the executive summary, "It is all too easy to simply take it for
granted that a URL filter gets it right -- categorizing every entry correctly
... but what happens if it doesn't? Or if it simply doesn't know what to do
with a URL it finds?" Through a strict testing regiment, the laboratory
determined that WebFilter provides the highest degree of accuracy overall.
Unlike other URL filtering products, Blue Coat WebFilter does not rely on
site-mining processes such as Web crawlers to find new Websites and
applications. Instead, to ensure accuracy and relevancy, Blue Coat leverages
its large URL research customer base of off-box OEM deployments, its free K9
solution for families and individuals and its "on-proxy" WebFilter deployments
to increase the size of its database. On average, these customers feed more
than 50 million URLs each day into the Blue Coat research engine, which has an
overall database of 13.5 million URLs. In addition, Blue Coat Labs actively
monitors and classifies spyware sites and assesses existing URLs with
specialized algorithms to ensure ratings stay current and accurate. To further
strengthen the size and accuracy of its URL database, Blue Coat uses Dynamic
Real-Time Rating (DRTR(TM)), a unique, proprietary tool that categorizes new
or unrated URLs "on the fly" as users attempt to access them.
The report concludes, "Our results also showed that -- in the real world
-- Blue Coat WebFilter is simply more flexible and intelligent than the other
databases in the test, in terms of how it is able to collect and categorize
URLs that the others either cannot find in the first place, or do not have the
means of categorizing at all."
The report is available as a free download from
http://www.broadband-testing.co.uk.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat helps organizations make the Web safe and productive for
business. Blue Coat proxy appliances provide visibility and control of Web
communications to protect against risks from spyware, Web viruses,
inappropriate Web surfing, instant messaging (IM), video streaming and
peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing -- while actually improving Web performance.
Trusted by many of the world's largest organizations, Blue Coat has shipped
more than 25,000 proxy appliances. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or http://www.bluecoat.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The statements contained in
this Report that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including
statements regarding the benefits to be gained by Blue Coat Systems through
the acquisition of Permeo, the value of Permeo's products to Blue Coat Systems
and its customers, and the financial impact on Blue Coat Systems of the
acquisition, as well as statements on our expectations, beliefs, intentions or
strategies regarding the future and including the statements regarding the
capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All
forward-looking statements included in this document are based on information
available to us on the date hereof. We assume no obligation to update any such
forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from
those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause
or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risks
discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recently filed Form 10-
Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2005, and other reports filed from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOTE: All trademarks, trade names or service marks used or mentioned
herein belong to their respective owners.
SOURCE Blue Coat Systems
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Related links:
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CONTACT:
Steve Schick, +1-408-220-2076, or
steve.schick@bluecoat.com, or investors, Carla Chun,
+1-408-220-2318, or carla.chun@bluecoat.com, both of Blue Coat
Systems; or Kevin Kosh of CHEN PR, +1-781-672-3111, or
kkosh@chenpr.com, for Blue Coat Systems
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