Blue Coat RA appliances allow organizations to extend rich application connectivity with integrated endpoint security to remote employees, partners and customers. A single solution for both corporate-owned laptops and unmanaged devices (such as employee home desktops and Internet kiosks), Blue Coat RA appliances leverage the industry’s only application-independent proxy architecture and patent-pending Connector technology to provide:

On-demand access to Web and client-server applications without the installation of VPN client software and without ever breaking Web applications

Comprehensive support for unmanaged endpoints (such as home PCs) without ever requiring local Admin rights and including features to block leakage of sensitive corporate and personal information

Integrated endpoint security services, such as host integrity checking and automatic spyware identification and temporary suppression

Unlike traditional SSL VPNs that require port forwarding and network-layer clients to support many mission-critical enterprise applications, Blue Coat RA utilizes the Blue Coat RA Connector to provide a single access mode for Web and client-server applications. The RA Connector, which is completely transient (nothing to install or uninstall), never requires local Admin rights or a system reboot. And, because it’s designed to be application independent, the RA Connector delivers on demand connectivity to both TCP and UDP applications.

Utilizing a SOCKS-proxy architecture, Blue Coat RA addresses the limitations of today’s HTTP-proxy-based SSL VPNs. In addition to being completely on-demand, RA supports Web and client-server applications out of the box – no application tuning for URL rewriting or any pre-configuration. This provides a quick and easy installation and also eliminates downtime as Web applications break as new versions are introduced.

Blue Coat RA represents the next generation of SSL VPNs that provides a single mode solution with integrated endpoint security and information protection features. With Blue Coat RA, extending access to all endpoints – such as providing Web mail access from home PCs – without concerns about endpoint attacks, data theft or inadvertent information leakage is simple and easy.