Blue Coat Appoints Carol Mills to Its Board of Directors

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Carol Mills has been appointed to fill a newly created seat on the Company's Board of Directors. Ms. Mills brings more than 25 years of experience developing corporate strategy and advising high technology companies, including HP and Juniper Networks. She serves as the Company's seventh board member, its sixth independent director and will serve on the Compensation Committee.

"Carol’s professional experience as an executive and board member will prove invaluable to Blue Coat as we continue to advance our leadership position in application delivery networking,” said Brian NeSmith, president and chief executive officer, Blue Coat Systems. "Carol’s expertise and insight will be an asset in helping us to design, develop and deliver the visibility, acceleration and security technologies enterprises need to optimize and secure the flow of information across their networks.”

Ms. Mills currently serves on the Board of Directors at Adobe Systems and Tekelec. She served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Infrastructure Products Group at Juniper Networks, from 2004 to 2006. Previously, she served as president and CEO of Acta Technology and general manager for the Enterprise Systems Business Unit at HP. Ms. Mills holds a M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from Smith College.

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.

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