CINCINNATI, OH - - March 3, 2005 -- Cadre Computer Resources Co. today announced it has been selected by Blue Coat® Systems, a leading provider of proxy appliances, to become a Blue Coat Authorized Training Center (ATC) in the U.S.  Under Blue Coat’s ATC program, Cadre will provide product training and fundamentals that enable administrators to become fully proficient on all aspects of the Blue Coat ProxySG™ and ProxyAV™ product technologies.

Cadre's world-class training facilities are located in Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh Pa.; Indianapolis Ind.; and Louisville Ky.  At each location, Blue Coat products have been integrated into a lab network to permit live demonstrations and hands-on learning.  Detailed practical information is presented along with hands-on lab exercises for participants.

"Students taking courses at Cadre's Blue Coat ATC will walk away with real-world experience that gives them the practical knowledge of tools and solutions they will need every day.  Each participant receives valuable, hands-on experience with the latest Blue Coat security products along with expert guidance from certified instructors." said Steven Snider, President of Cadre.

Cadre's first Blue Coat course offering will be Proxy Fundamentals geared towards those who will administer Blue Coat proxy appliances.  Also offered is the Advanced Proxy Solutions class for those who need to understand and implement the advanced features of Blue Coat’s powerful solution, such as high availability and multi-site deployments, advance policy features, Web content control, P2P file sharing control, IM control, streaming media control, application acceleration, and reverse proxy deployments.

Joe Steinert, VP of Professional Services at Cadre, commented, “The technology that Blue Coat is developing brings a paradigm of security that is lacking in most organizations – controlling the internal network users.  In appropriate Web surfing, spyware, viruses, and rogue P2P file sharing cost corporations millions of dollars a year.  Blue Coat devices do an excellent job of controlling these activities as well as addressing customer concerns over Sarbanes/Oxley, GLBA, and HIPAA compliance.”

“We are pleased to be working with Cadre to provide customers with superior training on Blue Coat’s high-performance proxy appliances,” said John Giacomini, vice president of North  American sales for Blue Coat.  “Cadre will be instrumental in ensuring that beginner and seasoned IT professionals have the expertise to leverage Blue Coat’s powerful proxy-based features from spyware prevention to Web filtering and content control.

About Cadre:

Cadre is a Cincinnati-based enterprise security solutions provider specializing in the sale, installation, support, training, and assessment of network security systems.  Cadre has operations in Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Indianapolis Ind.; Louisville Ky.; Pittsburgh Pa.; Detroit Mich.; Chicago Ill.; Milwaukee, Wis.; and Charleston W.Va.

About Blue Coat Systems:
Blue Coat enables organizations to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet. Blue Coat proxy appliances provide visibility and control of Web communications to protect against risks from spyware, Web viruses, inappropriate Web surfing, instant messaging (IM), video streaming and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing - while actually improving Web performance. Trusted by many of the world's largest organizations, Blue Coat has shipped more than 20,000 proxy appliances. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.