Category: Firewalls

WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 43 – Tumblr Worm

Tumblr Worm, Spoofed Tweets, and Madcap McAfee Wow. I knew information security news was picking up over the past few years, but lately it seems like our own little industry reality show; complete with mysterious murders, border-crossing heists, and random heart attacks (not to mention, colorful personalities).

WatchGuard RapidDeploy

Learn about RapidDeploy from WatchGuard Technologies, the innovative cloud-based configuration capability that allows firewall appliances to securely configure themselves–dramatically reducing deployment time and costs. www.watchguard.com Other Resources: Learn how to simplify security and leverage powerful centralized management using WatchGuard Management Server www.youtube.com Watch the video and read the case study on how an MSSP benefits from leveraging WatchGuard’s powerful centralized management and best-in-class defense-in-depth. www.watchguard.com

Radio Free Security: November 2012 Episode

2012 Security Predictions in Review: Win or Fail? We’re nearing the end of the year, which means the season of holiday decorations, spiked eggnog, and Christmas music blaring in every store and on all the radio stations… It also means the season of annual predictions. Every year, the WatchGuard security analysts and I pull out our crystal balls, tarot cards, and tea leaves, and try to forecast some of the security threats and trends you can expect in the following year.

ASG 8.308 Up2Date Released

We have started to spread ASG Up2Date 8.308, which finalizes the process for one-touch upgrading to UTM 9 for supported appliances by solving a few issues and polishing the operation across all remaining models. Note that HA/Clustering systems are not yet supported and will unlock at a later date in early 2013. As part of the adjustments, you now need to be at ASG 8.308 to perform the UTM 9 one-touch upgrade, so install this release before attempting, as version 8.306 and 8.307 will not be allowed to upgrade anymore

ASG 8.307 Up2Date Released

An Up2Date has been released for ASG 8.307 that optimizes the one-touch update to UTM 9 for supported official appliances, and contains some security patches for the Astaro Security Gateway platform. Supported ASG appliances are unlocked and ready for upgrading you to UTM 9 (if you don't see the upgrade option in your Up2Date section, be patient – it will take some hours to fully spread

UTM 9.004 Up2Date Released

We have just uploaded released UTM 9.004. This main reason for this release is to support our new UTM 100 product and its associated licensing, and we'll also take the opportunity to increase the stability of UTM 9 by quashing a few bugs, notably a pesky one with IOS6 and the Cisco VPN client which we support. IOS6 should again work with your UTM VPN configurations.

Sophos UTM Manager 4 Released

Today we have officially released Sophos UTM Manager 4. The next evolution of the product formerly known as Astaro Command Center (ACC), Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) 4 lets you centrally montior, configure, and report on multiple Sophos UTM installations. Like ACC, SUM is offered completely free of charge, simply download it and run it on your own hardware, almost any virtualization platform (Eg. VMware) or inside the Amazon Cloud using our pre-built AMI

Scheduled Access through the Firewall

With this video, you’re going to learn how to set up scheduled firewall policies that will only allow traffic to certain sites at certain times of the day. For this example, we’re going to institute a policy allowing access to Youtube and Facebook only during usual lunch hours. Having such policies in place can help maintain productivity without completely restricting access to recreational content on the web, which is increasingly a regular part of users’ daily lives.