Blue Coat Reporter
Manage Web activity on your network

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Blue Coat Reporter

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Overview:

Blue Coat Reporter gives you the ultimate visibility into your Blue Coat ProxySG installation, with detailed reporting on video and web application usage. Reporter quickly processes robust log data from Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and ProxyClient, as well as conveyed data from WebFilter and ProxyAV appliances, and creates intuitive reports for security specialists, department managers, HR managers and network administrators.

The highly customizable Reporter dashboard offers detailed views of user activity, web usage patterns, application access summaries, video usage, 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 applications. Reporter also offers the ability to anonymize any data field in any report and has support for international user names, URLs, and domain names.

More than 50 users or administrators can use Reporter simultaneously, each with his or her own customizable dashboard that provides a unique view that is important or valuable to their own specific role. Using this data, administrators can create custom reports to help:

Troubleshoot possible security holes
Track potentially dangerous user activity
Gain visibility into blocked traffic by category and URL
Conserve network bandwidth resources by identifying abuse patterns
Provide visibility into the usage of specific web application functions
Plan and review policy based on web, application and video usage
Report on web and video usage by user, group, location, URL and other factors
Identify violators of corporate web access policies and possibly compromised and infected systems on the corporate network

Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard -- an intuitive visibility interface

The Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard -- an intuitive visibility interface

Blue Coat Reporter gives managers powerful visibility into all web-related user activity. Beyond URL filtering, Reporter provides customizable, at-a-glance dashboards and reports along with intuitive drill-down capabilities making it an invaluable part of security, compliance, bandwidth management, and other business critical efforts necessary in today’s competitive environment. Reporter quickly processes robust log data from Blue Coat ProxySG, WebFilter, ProxyClientTM, and ProxyAVTM, and creates intuitive reports for security specialists, department managers, HR managers, and network administrators. Blue Coat Reporter provides the ultimate solution for complete Web visibility and control.

Features:

Comprehensive Security and Web Activity Information

Real-time Dashboard
Customizable, role-based dashboards deliver pertinent, personalized ata-glance views of current status information, as well as, recent or long term trends related to web activity and security events.

Intuitive Navigation
FLEX based GUI enables administrators to easily drill-down into details, related information or other specifics, to support forensic investigation of an event or to analyze trends that may influence policy decisions.

Flexible Reporting
Powerful pre-defined reports and straightforward custom report creation highlight Web activity information:

Spyware and other Malware
Video Usage
Web Application Usage
Search Term Usage
Filtering Categories (URLs)
Web Content
Sessions
Traffic Profiles
Users/Authentication
and more…

Threat Protection Reporting
Interpret current or historical Web activity by correlating the data to risk groups such as Business Usage, Legal Liability, Bandwidth Loss, Security Risk and others.

Root Cause Visibility
Correlate events with the activities preceding them. Review the surfing history for systems that now show signs of a malware infection, evaluate overall Web activity at times of peak bandwidth usage and examination the search terms used by individuals who attempt to visit otherwise restricted sites.

Scalable Performance
Performance-optimized design ensures rapid processing of even large log files, while minimizing the amount of server space required.

Content Filtering and Trend Analysis
Track user Web usage patterns including access attempts, blocked sites, access by category, and much more.

Role-Based Access

Reporter supports custom, role-based dashboards and reports for thousands of administrators, up to 50 concurrently, and maintains them independently to provide every user with a UI tailored for their role.

Security View
Security personnel must track user activity that is potentially dangerous, quickly identify users with malicious content, including spyware, and identify trends that may require policy changes.

Network Administrator View
Network administrators can measure Web traffic performance, trends, errors, bandwidth impact, streaming traffic levels and more. Technical reports include information for response codes, processing actions and operations, upload of MIME types, Web browsers and operating systems.

HR View
HR wants to know when and where users are going on the Internet. Filtering, Content and User reports are key to help these personnel control policy violations to prevent abuse and protect liability.

Management View
Managers need access to data related to the Web activity of their direct reports to manage productivity and achieve business objectives.

Anonymized View
Reporter also offers the ability to create reports with anonymized user data, when both privacy and data access is required.

Customized Access

Reporter provides easy access to relevant information to the full range of individuals who need to know what is happening on their network, their gateway, and among their employees using the Web.

LDAP/AD Integration
Role-based permissions are easily managed through integration with LDAP and Active Directory with the option to automatically empower all stakeholders:

Managers to view data about direct reports
Individuals to view their own data Access can also be determined by geography, function, product, departments, or other necessary organizational methods.

Administrator Auditing
Reporter includes auditing of the access and activity history of each administrator, mitigating concerns about potential abuse.

Web API
A Web API provides auditors and 3rd party management consoles access to Reporter information in HTTP/ XML, PDF and CSV (Microsoft Excel compatible) formats.

Deployment:

Reporter provides control and visibility for Web gateway and remote users

Screenshots:

The Reporter Dashboard is an intuitive role-based, interactive view into web activity.

E-mail, archive, save and schedule reports quickly and easily.

Pre-defined and customized reports can be stored, grouped and organized for easy reference and access.

Reporter Dashboards can be easily customized for different roles like Security.

Specifications:

Blue Coat Reporter is available in three versions: Standard, Enterprise and Premium editions. Each version offers identical functionality and performance, making it easy to determine which version is right for you. All reporting options, dashboard features, role-based management, and other capabilities are enabled in each edition of Reporter. The only difference is in the maximum number of log lines that you may need Reporter to store and analyze.

Reporter Edition	Version Sizing Restrictions**
Standard Edition*	Up to 50 Million log lines (typical for a 750 user network, 60 days of activity)
Enterprise Edition*	Up to 2.5 Billion log lines (typical for a 35,000 user network, 60 days of activity)
Premium Edition*	Up to 10 Billion log lines (typical for 150,000 user network, 60 days of activity)

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server for Windows
Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS
VMWare ESX running either of the above supported operating systems

Although Blue Coat Reporter may successfully install and run on other versions of Linux, the behavior on these systems cannot be predicted. Therefore, Blue Coat does not support Linux operating systems outside of recent Red Hat releases.

Client Web Browser Support:

Internet Explorer® 5.5 or later
Mozilla Firefox 1.7 or later

* All versions contain identical features; only log size restrictions vary.
** Supports 32 and 64 bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Windows Server 2003 and 2008, running separately or within a VMware environment. Also available as a virtual appliance. Hardware recommendations begin with a quad-core processor and 16GB of RAM, but final requirements vary by the number of log lines to be processed and performance objectives. Consult with your Blue Coat representative for specific hardware sizing recommendations.