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You may not have heard of Blue Coat before, as we're not really a consumer company.
But our story is an interesting one, as are the events that brought us to offer K9
Web Protection to the community, to help create a family-safe Internet experience.
Blue Coat, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a high-technology company with a focus on
"Making the Web Safe for Business." As the Internet has evolved, companies rely more
and more on the web and the web browser as a primary tool for connecting with all kinds
of resources. But as the Internet has evolved, so have the threats that can come from
malicious content, inappropriate use, and poorly-constructed web applications.
Blue Coat builds a Secure Proxy Appliance (ProxySG) and related products that medium
and large enterprises use to add a fundamentally new layer of Internet security between
their employees and the Internet. Filtering out inappropriate web content is just one
of the many capabilities available on Blue Coat's ProxySG product line.
In November of 2004, Blue Coat acquired a powerful content filtering technology when
it bought Cerberian, located in Draper, Utah. This technology forms the core of Blue
Coat Web Filter, and the Blue Coat Web Filtering Service, used by our enterprise
ProxySG customers. It is this core technology that K9 uses to provide the market's
best URL filtering solution. (For a comparison of Blue Coat Web Filter technology
against other enterprise-class URL filters, visit our
News Section and our
Resources Section)
Shortly after completing the acquisition of Cerberian and its technology, Blue Coat's
corporate executives saw a unique opportunity to bring something extremely important to
local communities and families. In a significant departure from our tried-and-true
enterprise business, Blue Coat decided to make K9 Web Protection a consumer product,
with the goal of helping to provide a "Family-safe Internet". We hope you like it and
welcome your feedback.
If you want to learn more about Blue Coat as a company, and about making the web safe
for business, please visit
www.bluecoat.com.
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