Blue Coat in leaders quadrant in secure web gateway

Company Brief

Mumbai, September 23, 2008

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway by research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances deliver the visibility, security and acceleration that enterprises require to enforce corporate policies and optimize application performance.

“Blue Coat has consistently delivered leading edge technology at the Internet gateway and branch office to ensure that enterprises can secure their networks and implement policies without compromising application performance,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems. “We believe being positioned in the leaders quadrant further validates the focused execution of Blue Coat’s vision to deliver the security and application acceleration tools that allow enterprises to effectively control their networks.”

The report positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to Gartner, “The Completeness of Vision axis captures the technical quality and completeness of the product and organizational characteristics, such as how well the vendor understands this market, its history of innovation, its marketing and sales strategies, and its geographic presence.”

Gartner has also placed Blue Coat in the leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007.

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances can flexibly enforce policies on content, users, applications and protocols while increasing application performance at the Internet gateway and over the wide area network. The highly scalable ProxySG allows customers to simplify their IT infrastructures by reducing the number of appliances required to secure and control the network.

“We expect average market growth rates to be in the 25 to 35 percent range for the next two years,” says Peter Firstbrook and Lawrence Orans in the Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2008 report. “This growth will be fueled by increased penetration of dedicated SWG devices, incremental feature revenue and the impact of appliance-based products replacing software.

Blue Coat has more than 15,000 customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Today, 81 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the 10 largest enterprises in the U.S. have deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to secure, control and accelerate their networks.

For further information, please contact:

Blue Coat Systems

Beverly Lu

Tel： (852) 3476-1080

Email：beverly.lu@bluecoat.com

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