Blue Coat Announces Upgrade to Award-Winning K9 Web Protection Software
28 February 2007
Blue Coat(R) Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today released an update to its free, award-winning K9 Web Protection Internet filtering software. New features include Windows Vista support, additional safeguards for "social networking" sites and new Web category and email/password management capabilities, giving parents more protection and control over their family's use of the Internet. K9 Web Protection is automatically upgraded for current users, and is available free for home users at http://www.getk9.com.
"We are pleased to offer this software upgrade to both existing and new users of K9 Web Protection," said John Carosella, vice president of content control for Blue Coat Systems. "Since the launch of K9, we have consistently received a great amount of positive feedback from this first generation of Internet parents. We also receive hundreds of requests from parents for additional capabilities in monitoring and controlling offensive Internet content. This latest update to K9 directly reflects what we've been asked to include. Blue Coat remains committed to developing K9 to meet the public's need in an industry that changes, often dramatically, by the minute."
Designed for parents and families, K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's enterprise and government customers worldwide. K9 Web Protection divides the Internet into 60 categories, relying on Blue Coat's commercial filtering database that maintains and automatically updates approximately 15 million ratings. Parents can configure the software to block or allow specific categories such as pornography, spyware, and adult/mature content, and also block access to the web at selected times of day. New features include:
-- Windows Vista Support. In addition to supporting Windows 2000 and
Windows XP, K9 Web Protection now supports the new Windows Vista
operating system, enabling families upgrading to or purchasing Vista to
still be protected without interruption.
-- Enhanced Web Categories, including "Social Networking." Due to the
increased popularity of social networking sites like myspace.com,
facebook.com, xanga.com, and the potential dangers they bring, K9 Web
Protection now includes a separate Social Networking category, giving
families the option to allow or block access to this specific type of
site. In addition, Web category protection levels have been modified to
an age-appropriate rating system.
-- Email and Password Change Options. In the previous version of K9 Web
Protection, changing email addresses and passwords required an email
request to tech support. The new option gives parents the ability to
make changes and updates directly within the administration function.
K9 Web Protection is offered through the Blue Coat Community Outreach Program (http://www.k9webprotection.com) which provides materials and resources to educate Internet parents about the impact of the Internet on children and on parenting strategies.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions -- deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers -- provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or http://www.bluecoat.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems' most recently filed Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2006 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2005, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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