First National Bank of South Africa Selects Blue Coat to

Secure and Accelerate Web Content

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), the leader in
WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that First National Bank
(FNB) in South Africa has deployed Blue Coat ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances and Blue Coat
WebFilter to provide Internet security, policy control and acceleration of Web content for its more
than 22,000 employees with Internet access. FNB has chosen Blue Coat to manage employee Web
usage; protect against malware, spyware and phishing attacks; accelerate content and reduce
bandwidth consumption.
First National Bank (FNB), one of the leading South African banking and financial services
organization, has branches throughout the country, and provides full retail services across individual
and commercial segments. FNB required a single security solution that could ease the
administrative challenge of controlling Web communications across different business units with
individual domains; an infrastructure which the existing solution could not support. At the same
time, FNB was interested in accelerating Web content and reducing the amount of bandwidth
consumed from its Internet gateway.
Web security is a major concern for all organizations - and nowhere more so than in the financial
services sector, said Edmund Fouche, information security specialist at FNB. At the same time, we
exist in an online world and depend on the Internet for conducting business. It is important to us to
have the visibility and control to stop malicious or non-productive traffic and accelerate that which is
important to our business.
Blue Coat appliances uniquely combine Web security, policy control and acceleration to stop the bad
and accelerate the good, said Craig Stewart, vice president, EMEA, Blue Coat Systems. We are
proud to help First National Bank harness the power of the Internet for optimized business that is
both safe and fast.
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances have been installed at the FNB data center in Randburg, South Africa
as well as its disaster recovery site to ensure fault tolerance. The appliances incorporate Blue Coat
WebFilter to enforce acceptable use policies and help manage employee productivity. Since ProxySG
appliances integrate with authentication systems, they can identify individual user traffic and apply
policy on a per-user basis.
Without effective controls, some applications can drain network resources and prevent business
applications from functioning. FNB can now control streaming audio, video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and
other bandwidth-consuming applications on a more granular basis. The ProxySG appliances educate
users with contextual splash pages, warnings and alerts to communicate and enforce the Banks
internal IT usage policy.
In addition to controlling Web applications and enforcing the acceptable usage policy, Blue Coat
appliances provide protection from viruses, spyware and other malicious threats. Even Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted traffic can be inspected for security or acceptability.
We worked closely with FNB to match their business needs with a solution that would meet all of
their objectives, said Morn Janse van Rensburg, security account manager at Dimension Data. Our
expertise in the Blue Coat platform enabled us to meet the full range of needs for security and

control while also applying acceleration and bandwidth reduction.

About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed
enterprise. Blue Coats 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 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or
www.bluecoat.com.
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