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Editorial Contacts: Shannon Gomez, Secure Computing Corporation (408) 979-6121, shannon_gomez@securecomputing.com
Tony Thompson, Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 13, 2003 - Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq: SCUR), the experts in protecting the most important networks in the world, and Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI) today announced that the U.S. Air Force has selected Secure's SmartFilter® software, running on Blue Coat's Web Security Appliance platform, as the base standard for high-performance Web filtering and content delivery. The Air Force executed a three-year enterprise license agreement that provides them with an integrated solution for Web access management for 250,000 users at all 106 Air Force bases worldwide. The combined solution has been deployed at each Network Control Center (NCC) as well as eight Network Operation and Security Centers (NOSCs), enabling each center to implement their individual Web access policies. SmartFilter's integration with the Blue Coat Security Appliance provides the Air Force with a single Internet access management tool that enforces their standard Internet usage policy with accelerated content delivery. In addition, the flexibility of the product allows each base to customize this policy as necessary to optimize their local network performance. SmartFilter, operating on the Blue Coat Web security appliances, enables organizations to build and enforce sophisticated Web-usage policies. Users can be denied access to specific Web sites, or coached within their browser session about acceptable use standards. SmartFilter's international Control List continuously categorizes millions of Web sites into content groups, including pornography, gambling, and MP3. The integrated Cyfin® Reporter performs detailed analysis on all Web surfing activity. Organizations of all types can realize immediate ROI resulting from increased productivity and recaptured network bandwidth. "Blue Coat's Web Security Appliances, with integrated SmartFilter software and Secure Computing's highly accurate global URL Control List, provides the Air Force with a single platform for highly-intelligent Web content filtering and accelerated Web content delivery," said Charles Dauber, vice president of marketing for Blue Coat Systems. "Our combined technologies increase network performance and help preserve the integrity of mission-critical Web applications for hundreds-of-thousands of Air Force users." The Blue Coat Web Security Appliances enable organizations to completely control and secure users accessing Web applications on the network. Each Blue Coat appliance leverages proxy caching expertise and granular policy architecture to "turbo-charge" URL filtering. Blue Coat offers the widest range of Web applications and protocols, and the most flexible range of Web security appliance platforms. "SmartFilter's superior On-Box™ design, scalability and highly accurate global control list has made it the de facto standard for filtering at the edge of the network," said Vince Schiavo, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Secure Computing. "SmartFilter running on the Blue Coat Security Appliance platform provides the Air Force with a cost-effective tool to ensure safe, productive use of the Internet."
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