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Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL] pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.0 out of 5
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Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user254964 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user254964
Information security Administration - Expert. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 16, 2015
It's a great solution for high load enterprise infrastructure to protect company networks from web threats.
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it_user298980 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user298980
IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2015
We were able to monitor users' social media behavior and control certain activities to be allowed on the social media, which helped to prevent data loss and other activities that could result in a negative impact to the organization.
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it_user365724 - PeerSpot reviewer
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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 25, 2016
Customer Service: Blue Touch support is top notch and very responsive when I opened service requests.
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Girish Vyas
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 3, 2018
Proxy Solution and ADN and their integration capability with Blue Coat director are positive features.
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Suhas Suryavanshi
Information Security Engineer at M.Tech
May 9, 2019
Since the implementation of this solution, the bandwidth has decreased and the performance in terms of Internet access has increased.
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Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user254964 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user254964
Information security Administration - Expert. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 16, 2015
They need to improve the intellectual analysis for APT vectors from web.
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it_user298980 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user298980
IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2015
The GUI works, but could be better.
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it_user365724 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user365724
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 25, 2016
Blue Coat advertises the ProxySG as a WAF, but it really isn’t.
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WAN Optimization
March 2026
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Girish Vyas
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 3, 2018
We cannot automate the product since the IP address can only be assigned after acquisition of the serial number.
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Suhas Suryavanshi
Information Security Engineer at M.Tech
May 9, 2019
It would be great if the product had inbuilt queuing for Quality of Service.
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