To get full benefit and ultimate insight from a Blue Coat proxy gateway installation, add the Blue Coat Reporter application. Reporter processes all of the log data from Blue Coat ProxySG, WebFilter, ProxyClient and ProxyAV, providing easy-to-view reports for security specialists, department managers, HR managers, and network administrators.

Blue Coat Reporter gives managers powerful visibility into all Web-related user activity with customizable dashboard views and reports on aggregate activity. Department managers with different responsibilities (and controlled login privileges) can take advantage of its drill-down-to-single-user capabilities. Reporter becomes an invaluable part of security, compliance and bandwidth management.

Blue Coat Reporter can:

• Deliver customized, role-based dashboards and reports to different managers.
• Easily drill down from general trends to specific activity.
  Automatically upload and process even the largest logs practically in real-time.
• Distribute and automatically update comprehensive views of Web activity in a variety of formats.
• Provide visibility into Web traffic performance, trends, errors, security threats, bandwidth impact, streaming traffic levels and more.

Report data includes Web usage patterns, application access summaries, blocked sites, sites accessed by category, time of day, length of time and more. You can also evaluate security risks and block network infiltration through IM and P2P usage.

Reporter conveys Web activity beginning with conventional Blue Coat-defined reports. Users then easily create custom reports tailored to their own unique environments. These reports capture user behavior, security and operational information. The result is a historic account of traffic profiles, users and authentication, sessions, Web content, technical profiles and malware and other spyware.

Multiple Web Activity Views from Role-Based Reports
Reporter allows network, security and human resources administrators to create their own dashboards to fit the kind of information they want to monitor.

They can drill down for deeper details like Web usage patterns by access attempts, access by category or time, blocked sites or dozens of other metrics. More than 50 concurrent administrators can utilize Reporter simultaneously, with each dashboard instance providing a unique view of usage behavior, security and operations.

All administrators are authenticated through the local network directory service, simplifying the process of generating reports, analyzing potential security risks and policy violations and understanding employee use activities.

With Reporter, security administrators can evaluate risks and track potentially dangerous activity, quickly identifying users that have been infected with malicious content. Network administrators can track user and enterprise Web activity on a per-user or geographical basis to better understand the organization's networking habits and needs. Human Resources managers can track where and when users are going to the Internet.

Reporter 9.0 is available in three versions. The Standard version supports 50 million log lines. The Enterprise version supports 2.5 billion log lines and the Premium version supports more than 10 billion log lines.

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