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BlueCoat Proxy – Log Injection For Rule Tracking

January 18, 2014 by ryanhorst

My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Unfortunately BlueCoat doesn't have a nice and fancy log tracker type utility like CheckPoint has in Smart Tracker, so the rules do not have numbers. However, you can work around this by using some log injection smoke and mirror tricks. There are a few unused (or not very often used) log variables that can be used in conjunction with a specific action on a rule, that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Howto Article, Information Security, Network Security, Threat Protection and Prevention, Web Proxy Tagged With: BlueCoat, Logging, My Engineering Years, ProxySG