Korea’s National Health Insurance Corporation Selects Blue Coat Appliances for
Web Security and Control
Release Date:
06/23/2009 - 5:00am
summary:
ProxySG Appliances Provide Visibility into Web Content and Protect Against
Malicious Content
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June23, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the
technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that
Korea’s National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) has deployed Blue Coat®
ProxySG® appliances to enforce consistent corporate IT policies across the
distributed organization and protect against Web-based malicious content.
“NHIC handles sensitive personal health information, so a robust security
solution that allows us to enforce our IT policy for all applications and
traffic is essential,” said Hwang Sang-Gu, manager of National Health Insurance
Corporation. “With Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, we gain visibility into Web
applications and content crossing our Internet gateway, allowing us to better
protect the confidentiality of our patients and prevent malicious content that
can be introduced through Web use from spreading through our system.”
As the national health organization of Korea, NHIC is subject to regulations
protecting patient confidentiality and any security breach could be damaging to
both the organization’s reputation as well as public confidence in it. NHIC
deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to ensure the privacy of confidential
personal information through the use of internal and Web-based applications by
employees and patients.
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enable NHIC to securely control employee access to
internal applications and patient access to Web-based applications that are
utilized for scheduling appointments, managing prescriptions and viewing test
results. With the ability to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic, ProxySG appliances
can also apply consistent IT policies to applications that would otherwise be
obscured from inspection and policy enforcement.
“Web use can open a door through which spyware or malicious applications can
enter and sensitive information can exit,” said Matt Young, vice president, Asia
Pacific region, Blue Coat Systems. “Blue Coat ProxySG appliances help
organizations like NHIC see and secure Web-based activity to ensure compliance
with regulations and policies.”
Together with WAN optimization, visibility and security are fundamental
technologies in the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that
is designed to optimize and secure the flow of information to users across the
distributed enterprise.
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