Blue Coat prevents security breaches

Blue Coat has introduced mobile applications controls in India, to prevent security breaches by unsanctioned mobile applications on the corporate network. The new mobile application controls are integrated into the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and the Blue Coat Cloud Service.  In addition, Blue Coat adds new applications and operations to its mobile application controls on a monthly basis.  

Ambarish Deshpande, Managing Director, India sales, Bluecoat said, “The move was to help Indian enterprises manage the proliferation of consumer technology, which has led to more employees bringing their own devices to work. The growth of Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) initiatives in India has created a situation where IT security managers are facing a deluge of untrusted, unmanaged devices and applications on the corporate network.”

“For the first time, Blue Coat through its mobile application controls give Indian administrators the ability to not only determine which applications are allowed on the network, but also to what extent mobile device users are able to interact with those applications,” Ambarish further added.