Blue Coat Announces Free Web Filtering Software to Safeguard Families With Macintosh...

Blue Coat Announces Free Web Filtering Software to Safeguard Families With Macintosh Computers

Blue Coat K9 Web Protection to Support Mac OS and Provide Enhanced
User Interface and Expanded Options for Safe Web Search
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--Blue Coat Systems (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application
Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced the beta release of
the next version of its award-winning K9 Web Protection Internet
filtering software that will, for the first time, run on Macintosh
computers. The new release also introduces key features, including
expanded safe search engine support and a redesigned user interface
for improved administrative management and feedback capabilities. K9
Web Protection is offered through the Blue Coat Community Outreach
Program (www.k9webprotection.com) which provides materials and
resources to educate Internet parents about the impact of the Internet
on children and on parenting strategies.

"Families and individuals with Macintosh computers now have a
powerful, easy-to-use, free solution for protection from inappropriate
or damaging Web content, spyware and phishing," said Bethany Mayer,
senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. "We
have long felt the demand for our free K9 Web Protection for the
Macintosh platform, and this release can significantly expand the
number of individuals and families we help."

Designed for parents and families, K9 Web Protection implements
the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat
enterprise and government customers worldwide. K9 Web Protection
divides Internet Websites into 60 categories, relying on Blue Coat's
commercial filtering database that maintains and automatically updates
approximately 15 million ratings. Parents can configure the software
to block or allow specific categories, such as pornography, spyware,
and adult/mature content, and also block access to the Web at selected
times of day. K9 Web Protection ensures a high level of protection by
utilizing a database populated by real user activity. Its effective
coverage reaches more than one billion Web pages. In addition, K9 Web
Protection takes advantage of Blue Coat's unique Dynamic Real-Time
Rating (DRTR) technology to automatically assess new and unfamiliar
Websites "on the fly."

New features in this release include:

-- Macintosh OS Support. In addition to supporting Microsoft(R)
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window Vista, K9 Web Protection
now supports the Macintosh operating system.

-- Enhanced User Interface (UI). Based on customer feedback, the
user interface has been redesigned to give users more
flexibility and control of administrative management activity
and user feedback. The new UI now passes W3C Validation and
supports IE7, Firefox-Win, Firefox-Mac, Safari-Mac, Opera-Win,
and Opera-Mac browsers.

-- Expanded Web Search Options. The current version of K9 Web
Protection offers the option of enforcing Google SafeSearch,
which diminishes the amount of adult material returned in an
Internet search. With this new release, the enforcement of
safe search functionality has been expanded to support MSN,
Yahoo, Ask, A9, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, DogPile, EarthLink,
HotBot, InfoSpace, Lycos, MIVA, Tiscali, and Wanadoo.

Parents using both PC and Macintosh operating systems will receive
all features and capabilities included in K9 Web Protection. K9 Web
Protection's Macintosh version will be generally available for free
download in Q1 2008. For more information, please visit
www.k9webprotection.com.

About Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business
applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of
appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices,
Internet gateways, end points, and data centers - provides intelligent
points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize
security and accelerate performance between users and applications.
Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue
Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at
(408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press
release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements,
including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations,
beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including
statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue
Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in
this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat
Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no
obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which
could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.
These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set
forth in Blue Coat Systems' most recently filed Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended January 31, 2006 and Form 10-K for the year ended April
30, 2005, and other reports filed from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.

Note: All trademarks, trade names or service marks used or
mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

Buzz Public Relations
Dana Marruffo, 512-825-9035
dana@buzzpublicrelations.net
or
Blue Coat Systems
Laurie Coffin, 512-334-3651
laurie.coffin@bluecoat.com

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