Break Free From Your
Legacy Symantec/Blue Coat Proxies to Embrace Digital Transformation
How will your digital transformation succeed if you’re boxed in with an appliance-based proxy?
Why it's time to rethink your Symantec/Blue Coat approach
Poor user experience
Many organizations rely on Microsoft 365, which is bandwidth- and connection-intensive. Appliance-based proxies are easily overwhelmed and struggle to keep up, resulting in slow response times and a frustrating experience for employees, especially when using latency-sensitive apps like Teams and SharePoint.
Security blindspots
At least 84 percent of the global internet traffic is encrypted. Unfortunately, legacy appliance-based proxies cannot inspect all SSL/TLS traffic, which is where most of today’s threats hide, and allowing this traffic to go uninspected puts you at a considerable risk of compromise.
Administration nightmares
The surge of support tickets, policy management, patches, upgrades, change windows, and never-ending hardware and connectivity issues trap your IT and security teams in an endless cycle of firefighting, keeping your business from moving forward.
Break free from your risky legacy approaches and embrace digital transformation with Zscaler
Superior performance
A true cloud-native platform, Zscalers’s unique inline proxy architecture is built with a robust multi-tenant infrastructure distributed across 150+ global edge locations, providing unlimited scale, unprecedented performance, and delightful user experiences.
Better

security
Processing more than 165B daily transactions, the world's largest inline security cloud provides end-to-end visibility, limitless SSL/TLS inspection, and delivers real-time threat intelligence and protections to every user.
Simplified
management
Purpose-built for today's mobile, cloud-first world, our cloud-native proxy architecture eliminates all hardware so that you can forget about upgrades, complicated policies, and connectivity issues. Instead, you'll gain fast, secure any-to-any connections—user to app, app to app, and machine to machine—regardless of where the connections occur.
We’ll help
you succeed
We know it's not easy to migrate when you have invested so much time and effort in a legacy solution such as Symantec/Blue Coat. So let us help you with this exclusive offer.
Now is the time to break free from legacy Symantec/Blue Coat proxies
Why replacing your Symantec/Blue Coat appliances with a cloud-native platform makes sense.
Feature
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Zscaler
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Falls flat
With 84% of the global web traffic being encrypted, appliances are unable to inspect SSL traffic effectively, often forcing users to bypass security for a better experience.
Zscaler
Nothing is hidden
The cloud-native proxy architecture enables inline inspection of all SSL traffic without performance degradation and without compromising security.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Can't keep up
Adversaries are using automated tools with novel tactics to evade your defenses. Appliances need constant upgrades and updates.
Zscaler
Better protection
Harnessing the power of the cloud drastically reduces your attack surface, and you’re always up to date with 120K+ daily security updates sourced by 180B daily transactions across the entire security stack.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Passthrough
Unknown and potentially malicious files pass through the proxy appliance without inline inspection, leaving the network exposed to a variety of attacks.
Zscaler
AI/ML-based quarantine
True inline detection with AI/ML based analysis stops and quarantines zero-day attacks from reaching their target—even if they are hidden in SSL traffic.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Too many blindspots
Adversaries use encrypted channels to deliver their payloads. Traditional appliances are blind to this traffic, giving them free rein to deliver threats, such as ransomware inside your network, virtually undetected.
Zscaler
Comprehensive prevention
Full SSL inspection at scale with a cloud-native zero trust architecture exposes, isolates, and stops ransomware in its tracks, regardless of user, location, or network.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Unable to scale
Appliance-based approaches cannot scale adequately to secure a growing remote workforce, making it complex and cumbersome to manage security policies.
Zscaler
Infinite scale
Native cloud architecture enables auto-scale with a frictionless transition of security policies to protect users working from anywhere.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Poor user experiences
Appliances bottleneck cloud applications such as M365, as their dependency on throughput and sessions with other hardware controls lead to poor user experiences.
Zscaler
One-click M365 configuration
Users get a direct and secure connection through Zscaler’s one-click M365 feature. With one setting, everything is optimized for M365, delivering superior performance and a more productive user experience.
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Legacy methods
Too much time is spent dealing with hardware configuration issues and maintaining inconsistent policies across the network and remote users.
Zscaler
Context-based
With the network out of the equation, you can focus on creating context-based business policies that are enforced consistently without any hardware constraints.
STILL NOT SURE?
Hear from one of the world’s
largest law firms that switched from Symantec/Blue Coat to Zscaler
Steptoe and Johnson Customer Story - Switching from secure web gateway appliances (Blue Coat) to Zscaler
Not to mention our other Fortune 500 digital
transformation success stories
Chris Drumgoole
Former CTO, GE
Impoved the user experience by 80% over legacy gateway approaches
Alex Philips
Former CTO, GE
Reduced infected machines by 35x over traditional security appliances
Frederick Janssen
VP IT Strategy and Governance, Siemens
Cut infrastructure costs by 
70% with Zscaler
Almost convinced?
Check out these resources that will help you make the case for replacement.