Modern firewalls and intrusion detection systems are able to protect the own network against attacks from outside very well. They have not been designed, however, to prevent dangers caused by user errors and faulty operations. This is where the ProxySG series of Blue Coat Systems comes into play. With the SGOS 4, the appliances work as high-quality proxies, permitting the monitoring, filtering, and logging of the user traffic. They examine the HTTP traffic with regard to faulty or harmful contents which will not be detected by a normal firewall. The course at hand gives an introduction to the installation and configuration of the devices on the basis of the SGOS 4 software and prepares for the certification as BCCPA.

Course Contents
• Blue Coat Products
• Proxy Deployments
• Initial Setup, Serial Console
• Licensing and Upgrades
• Management Console (GUI)
• Policy and Visual Policy Manager (VPM)
• Authentication (NTLM/LDAP)
• URL Filtering
• Blocking of Downloads and Peer-to-Peer
• Instant Messaging
• Access Logging and Blue Coat Reporter
• Proxy AV and Virus Scanning
• Services and Support

The course documentation of Blue Coat Systems in English language will be used.

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Target Group
Technicians and administrators responsible for the installation, configuration, and operation of the Proxy SG4 of Blue Coat Systems will acquire the necessary basic know-how in this course to perform their tasks successfully.

Knowledge Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with the fields LAN, Internet, and security and should have a deeper know-how of the IP protocol family. In addition, basic knowledge of authentication methods will be helpful.

Course Objective
After the course, the participants will be able to install a ProxySG in the network and to independently implement simple policies.