Announces the Cloud Ready Partner Program aimed at easing enterprise-level cloud migration and decreasing risk enabling integration of services and applications to deliver visibility and control
Blue Coat has announced the launch of its Cloud Ready Partner Program, forming a broad Cloud Security Partner Ecosystem. The Cloud Ready Partner Program creates an open framework to allow a select set of security vendors and SaaS companies to deeply integrate and certify their services and cloud applications directly into the Blue Coat Security Platform. This level of integration allows customers ease of transition to the cloud while maintaining critical visibility and control between users and applications.
According to the press release, the charter members of the Blue Coat Cloud Ready Partner Program are AirWatch, AlienVault, Box, Centrify, Dropbox, E8 Security, Exabeam, Fortscale, Gemalto, HP, Oracle, Seculert, Splunk and Symantec. The Blue Coat Cloud Ready Partner Program is designed to provide customers a method to integrate and adopt new services into a broader security framework for the Cloud Generation, limiting the risk of cloud adoption and Shadow IT.
Together with Blue Coat and certified Cloud Ready Partner solutions, customers will be able to leverage their established security services, as well as tie together new technologies into the Blue Coat Cloud Security Platform. The certifications include automatically sharing rich cloud web gateway and CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) data with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and User Behavior Analytics services. Shared intelligence with breach detection platforms will help fine tune security defenses. Additionally, the solutions will provision user devices to automatically connect to Blue Coat Cloud Enterprise Mobile Management and also provide full control and data protection for cloud applications.
Peter Doggart, VP, Business Development at Blue Coat said, “Security is a team sport and only by working together will we get ahead of the bad guys. We’re moving into a very exciting time in IT, where we can start to really work together in an environment that was born to be dynamic — the cloud. It will enable us to share intelligence, use services and react to attacks or data breaches incredibly efficiently.”
According to Roger Murff, VP, Business Development & Technology Partnerships, Box, “As businesses adopt cloud technologies to become more productive and collaborative, security is paramount. At Box we see value in ecosystems like the Blue Coat Cloud Ready Partner Program that make it easier for businesses to find services that work seamlessly together and add new layers of security and control to their most valuable content.”
David Etue, VP of Business Development, Identity and Data Protection at Gemalto also gave his comments, “We are very excited to be a charter member of Blue Coat’s Cloud Ready Partner Program and help build an ecosystem of integrated technology partners that simplifies cloud adoption and security for enterprises. Gemalto enables enterprises and organizations to move to the cloud with confidence and protect their mission-critical applications and sensitive data with our market-leading multi-factor authentication, encryption and key management solutions.”
Nicolas Popp, VP, Information Protection, Symantec said of the Partner Program, “We’re very excited about extending our partnership with Blue Coat through participation in the Cloud Ready Partner Program. Providing a means to leverage their existing investments in Symantec Data Loss Prevention to protect the cloud provides even greater value to our joint customers. Building on this current integration we’ll look to develop even broader cloud-based support with Blue Coat in future releases.”
