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Jefferson County Public Schools Use Blue Coat Appliances for Securing, Controlling and Accelerating Web Access

Business Wire, April 14, 2008

ProxySG Appliances Manage Web Usage, Accelerate Content, Reduce Bandwidth Consumption and Protect Against Malware for Largest School District in Colorado

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Colorado, has deployed Blue Coat([R]) ProxySG([R]) appliances and Blue Coat WebFilter software to manage Web usage, accelerate content and applications, reduce bandwidth consumption and protect against malware for its 150 school locations and 80,000 students in Jefferson County, Colorado.

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"Since our school district, like most others, depends on the Internet for enhanced instruction, resources and communication, we needed a solution that would provide easily managed security and control while not impeding the speed of access," said Joe Murdock, senior security engineer, Jefferson County Public Schools. "Blue Coat appliances provide the protection and controls we need, and simultaneously accelerate acceptable content while reducing overall bandwidth consumed. It's a solution that brings the best of both worlds to us."

Blue Coat appliances provide visibility into the District's Internet access and enables it to enforce the controls that it has established to meet Federal, state and local policies. The delivery of acceptable content is accelerated through use of caching and pipelining. In addition, the District's bandwidth consumption has decreased approximately 50 percent.

"It is easy to see the Blue Coat benefit of security and acceleration working together in a large deployment, such as Jefferson County Public Schools," said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. "We are pleased to help keep students and schools safe while increasing Internet responsiveness and saving operational expenses through decreased bandwidth consumption."

About Blue Coat Systems

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 - provide 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' Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007, and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Note: Blue Coat and other applicable product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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Jefferson County Public Schools Use Blue Coat Appliances for Securing, Controlling and Accelerating Web Access

Business Wire, April 14, 2008

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