The US supervision is seeking in to claims that Syria limited its citizens' access to the internet, using an American company's technology.
A organisation of hackers says it has downloaded information from the Syrian supervision telecommunications agency.
It says the archives indicate apparatus built by Blue Coat is being used to confine website access and, possibly, to guard dissidents.
Blue Coat mentioned it does not offer its apparatus or services to Syria.
"We are actively questioning new allegations that specific Blue Coat products have been sole or eliminated in to Syria and are being used by the Syrian government," the firm said.
"Blue Coat does not sell its products in to Syria, and prohibits its allies from selling Blue Coat products in to Syria or other embargoed countries."
The United Nations estimates that around 3,000 people have been killed in Syria given a crackdown on anti-government protests began in March.
The Syrian authorities censure the disturbance on "armed militant groups".
The US imposed sanctions against Syria in 2004, prohibiting the trade of US products with the difference of disinfectant and food.
However, the sanctions would not stop Syria sourcing Blue Coat's notice hardware from a third celebration in other country.
"We are worried about reports of the use of technology by odious regimes in general, but Syria in particular, to aim activists and dissidents," mentioned Victoria Nuland, a mouthpiece is to US State Department.
"We are reviewing the information that you have and monitoring the facts."
Syria's purported use of the apparatus might be limited because the US firm would not give it with encouragement services.
However, Blue Coat does not have a remote "kill switch" to stop its pack from working, because the trickery would leave its products exposed to outmost attacks.
The allegations against Blue Coat come with Telecomix, a organisation founded by Swedish hackers that describes itself as a "telecommunist cluster".
It mentioned it downloaded 54 gigabytes of Syrian telecoms information in August.
The organisation says the files contained indication of "web filtering and monitoring", and when it scanned internet protocol addresses related with the Syrian authorities, a few of them responded as being Blue Coat devices.
One associate of Telecomix, who is well known by the nickname KheOps, told the BBC: "Also, you have info from the belligerent to approve the info."
Another member, well known as okhin, mentioned it was expected that Syria had not paid for the gadgets right away from Blue Coat because "those gadgets are exceedingly feeble configured, and you regard that when Blue Coat sells gadgets they often sell technical talent to configure and use them".
Blue Coat voiced progressing this month that 85% of the Fortune Global 500 companies use its products. It moreover offers family groups giveaway web filtering program to inhibit publishing and gambling pages.
However, the London formed promotion group, Privacy International, mentioned it wants Blue Coat, and its competitors, to face serve scrutiny.
"Companies that produce notice technologies that make easy the range and levels of penetration that Blue Coat's does contingency be wakeful of the prospective devastation their products can wreak," mentioned the group's human rights and technology adviser, Eric King.
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