New Blue Coat SG Client Combines with SG Appliances to Provide Complete Control of Security and Performance for Users and Applications Regardless of Location

Dubai - 15th  November, 2006 - Blue Coat Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, and which is participating in GITEX Dubai 2006, Zabeel Hall, booth ZR 20, today announced its Blue Coat SG Client architecture which delivers application acceleration and security to endpoint devices used by any remote or mobile user.

The new client-based software solution integrates with Blue Coat's current family of intelligent appliances to create the industry's first comprehensive architecture to ensure WAN application performance and security for all users in any location across the distributed enterprise. A unified architecture that extends application performance and security control to individual endpoints is an emerging IT requirement.

The new solution is based on a modular architecture that enables functionality to be added or modified as needed, while fully integrating functions with consistent policy and management. The first release is scheduled for availability in the first quarter in 2007.

Control for Both Application Security and Acceleration at the Endpoint
Currently available endpoint security solutions protect the endpoint operating system; VPN solutions protect packet flows; and network access control solutions set criteria for corporate network connections. None of these solutions control all user-application interactions at the endpoint. The new SG Client architecture extends policy-based application security and acceleration to all users, regardless of location.

Offering end-to-end application delivery, the Blue Coat SG Client is designed to protect the remote client and information residing on it during a secure session. It enforces corporate policies by controlling content and applications, protecting against spyware and other forms of malware and performing appropriate URL filtering. Since SG Client is designed to provide application control, data can be protected, for instance, with active information controls to prevent printing, saving, copying or "print screening."

The Blue Coat SG Client, delivered in several phases over the next year "Blue Coat's goal is 'no user is left behind' - that no one is cut off from enterprise application performance and security," said Steve Mullaney, vice president of worldwide marketing for Blue Coat Systems. "Organizations have been able to control application performance and security inside their own networks, but once users are outside they have been beyond the reach of that control. With Blue Coat SG Client, organizations will be able to seamlessly extend application security and performance to remote employees anywhere."

"By incorporating the mobile user, Blue Coat can offer a complete solution to customers looking to extend the availability, security and performance of applications out to the far reaches of the organization," said Cindy Borovick, director for IDC's datacenter networks program. "It is becoming critical to deliver the same level of network services to remote employees as those in the corporate headquarters."

The SG Client architecture is designed to accelerate a full range of business-critical application traffic and provide appropriate levels of security and control-at the critical application layer. SG Client will incorporate Blue Coat's patent-pending MACH5 application acceleration technology, which provides protocol optimization, object and byte caching and compression-to speed applications and content and reduce bandwidth usage-in accordance with enterprise policy.

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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 www.bluecoat.com.

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Dubai Internet City, Cannon building 9, office 313
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