Telecom Lead India: Web security and WAN optimization
solutions provider Blue Coat Systems has launched mobile application controls.
The newly launched mobile application controls are
expected to close the security gap created by unsanctioned mobile applications
on the corporate network.
The mobile application control enables Blue Coat to
manage use of unsanctioned applications and consistently enforce policies
across all devices on the network.
Forrester Research says 57 percent of employees chose and
purchased their own smartphone without any direction or guidance from their
company.
Mobile application measurement company Flurry says each
smartphone has, on average, 65 mobile apps installed.
With 350 million employees are expected to use
smartphones at work by 2016, the number of mobile applications using the
corporate network will continue to skyrocket.
“The growth of BYOD initiatives has created a
situation where IT security managers are facing a deluge of untrusted,
unmanaged devices and applications on the corporate network,” said Steve
Daheb, chief marketing officer at Blue Coat Systems.
The new mobile application controls are integrated into
the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and the Blue Coat Cloud Service.
Blue Coat adds new applications and operations to its
mobile application controls on a monthly basis to continually enhance the value
delivered to customers and ensure they have the most relevant controls to
manage the applications on their network.
Blue Coat unveils CacheFlow 5000 appliance for telecom
service providers
Blue Coat Systems announced its Blue Coat CacheFlow 5000
appliance, which delivers significant performance and capacity more than three
times greater throughput and cache storage compared to the previous version in
the same compact, 4U footprint.
The new CacheFlow appliance includes IPv6 support to
address the advanced networking requirements of large service provider
customers.
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