Radicati: Blue Coat Dons Leadership Cap in Corporate Web Security Market

Signifying the importance of Web security, analyst research firm Radicati is forecasting that the corporate Web security solutions market will grow from $1.3 billion in 2011 to more than $2.3 billion in 2015. Radicati has identified Blue Coat (News - Alert) Systems Inc., as a Top Player in the Corporate Web Security Market Quadrant.

 

According to Radicati, Top Players are leaders of the corporate Web security market and have products with large customer bases. Blue Coat Systems is a premier provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions. The company said that its leadership in the Web acceleration and URL filtering space has helped to position it as a leader in the Web Security space.

 

“By providing a real-time defense that delivers on-demand intelligence about new and unknown content and immediate protection against Web-based threats, Blue Coat has taken the lead in delivering Web security solutions to organizations of all sizes,” said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president at Blue Coat, in a press release.

 

According to Daheb, the ongoing investment in the company’s Web defenses and innovative technology will continue to drive value for its customers as they gravitate to the Internet to do business.

 

When Blue Coat expanded its portfolio of Web security solutions with the ProxyOne appliance and its cloud Service, it extended the Blue Coat technology to organizations with limited IT resources and also provided protection to organizations and users anytime, anywhere.

 

Almost 75 million users are backed by Blue Coat’s WebPulse, which offers real-time defense against malicious attacks from malware by analyzing new and unknown Web content.

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Edited by John Lahtinen