Blue Coat Appoints Steve Daheb Chief Marketing Officer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 21, 2010 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization, today announced that networking industry marketing veteran Steve Daheb has been appointed chief marketing officer (CMO) and senior vice president, effective immediately. Daheb is responsible for the company’s unified global marketing initiatives, corporate branding and positioning, corporate and marketing communications and regional and field marketing worldwide. He reports directly to Mike Borman, president and chief executive officer.

“I am pleased to announce that Steve Daheb will lead Blue Coat’s marketing efforts to strengthen and expand our presence in the Web security and WAN optimization markets while further driving Blue Coat’s role as a key enabler in solving networking and security challenges,” said Mr. Borman. “Steve brings to Blue Coat proven experience and leadership, along with careful strategic thinking, creative insight and high energy. His strengths and experiences are well-suited to advancing Blue Coat’s future.”

Mr. Daheb was most recently the chief marketing officer for Emulex Corporation, where he helped grow the company’s presence in existing markets and facilitated its entry and growth in the new converged networking market. He previously served in a number of executive sales, marketing and business development roles for a variety of networking companies, including BlueArc, Tasman Networks, Brocade and Lucent/Ascend. His experience in video, security and networking gives him valuable market insight.

The CMO Institute named Mr. Daheb as one of the Top Ten Chief Marketing Officers of 2009 in its CMO Awards announced in April 2010. The Chief Marketing Officer awards recognize executives for utilizing best practices that transcend industry and technology boundaries and for demonstrating outstanding leadership across various disciplines of the marketing field. In addition, in June 2010, Mr. Daheb was named as a finalist in the 2010 American Business Awards for Marketing Officer of the Year. He was selected from more than 2,700 executives from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry, for his efforts in vision development, rebranding and repositioning.

“Blue Coat brings together a unique combination of solutions to meet the challenges of understanding, securing, optimizing and accelerating Web content, video and other mission-critical applications,” said Mr. Daheb. “As these markets continue to evolve, I see opportunity for Blue Coat to increase its leadership and deliver greater value to customers of all sizes around the world.”

About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and enhance the end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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For more information, please contact:

Manal Abi Rafeh
Regional Marketing Manager ME & Turkey
Blue Coat Systems ME
Telephone: +971 4 3911620
Fax: +971 4 3911635
Email: manal.abirafeh@bluecoat.com

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