Bluecoat Training

Requirements

• Administration and monitoring of Bluecoat Proxy and Management Center
• Good understanding of HTTP and proxy concepts (explicit, implicit)
• ICAP integration with DLP and content analysis
• CPL & VPM policy understanding and layer concepts in Bluecoat
• SSL interception use cases
• Troubleshooting user authentication issues
• Working knowledge of PAC files and modification
• Performance and availability monitoring
• Troubleshooting user access issues
• Exporting periodic reports
• Proxy migration experience (added advantage)

Useful Resources

• Three Minutes to DLP with Blue Coat - youtube.com
• 5 Minute Proxy - Data Loss Prevention - youtube.com

Lessons Learned:

SSL knowldege, http knowledge, HA (failover, Gratuitous ARP), proxy mode, user authentication