Learn what a TCP sessions is and how it works.

Learn about the common features that can be found in any UTM firewall.

utm , firewall , feature

In today's economic climate, increasing employee productivity and reducing infrastructure costs are at the top of every organizational agenda. Enabling employees to access network resources, from wherever they are and from whatever device, is a key strategy for improving productivity and saving money. As a result, IT is under pressure to deliver remote access to their increasingly mobile workforce, but is stumbling across the limitations of their current IPSec technology.

vpn , ssl vpn , ipsec

Network Address Translation (NAT) is a process handled by a device, typically a router, in which unregistered (private) IP addresses in a local area network are mapped with registered (pubic) IP addresses that an organization may have. Since NAT is widely used in almost all SOHO networks and small, medium and large scale industries, addressing scheme must be chosen wisely before implementing any type of NAT configuration.

NAT , Implementation

In most organizations nowadays, administrators limit users’ access to the Internet in order to reduce the chances of opening surfaces for the intruders, reduce the chances virus infections, preserve Internet bandwidth and prevent users from accessing inappropriate pages. 5 of the most commonly used ways to control Internet access in an organization are listed in this article

access control , DHCP

Logs are important aspect of any network architecture in a way that with the help of logs, administrators can diagnose and analyze the cause of any trouble that may occur. Like firewall installation and configuration, monitoring firewall logs also require in-depth knowledge of ports, protocols and other network related technicalities. Therefore, it is recommended that only highly skilled security professionals with ample experience must be hired to manage the firewalls and monitor their logs.

firewall logs

Firewall rules are the set of instructions defined by security administrator in an organization. Firewall rules are defined for inbound and outbound network traffics individually, and are used to allow or deny the packets on the basis of their services, user accounts, protocols, port numbers, source addresses, destination addresses, etc.

Firewall Rules

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), sometimes also referred to as Perimeter Network, is a small network of few computers, and lies between the external untrusted network (mostly the Internet) and the internal network (local area network) that contains sensitive data which cannot be exposed to unauthorized people at any cost.

DMZ

As the number and severity of cyber-crimes continues to grow, it's important to understand the steps cyber-criminals take to attack your network, the types of malware they use, and the tools you need to stop them. The basic steps of a cyber attack include reconnaissance (finding vulnerabilities); intrusion (actual penetration of the network); malware insertion (secretly leaving code behind); and clean-up (covering tracks).

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The latest generation of exploits used to attack computer systems relies on extremely sophisticated evasion techniques to escape detection. The most serious of these attacks can provide the attacker with the ability to remotely initiate system-level commands. Today's intrusion prevention systems (IPS) provide advanced security intelligence and the ability to identify and block malware before it can enter your network so that you can defeat these sophisticated evasion techniques.

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Dell SonicWALL's advanced security platform uniquely consolidates core Next-Gen Firewall application intelligence, control and visualization, gateway protection and SSL inspection for enterprises along with WAN acceleration for distributed offices, elements that work seamlessly together to maximize security and control. The following e-book outlines 10 ways Dell SonicWALL solutions can help optimize performance, enhance security, and increase employee productivity, without introducing latency.

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With company-issued, IT-controlled laptops, IT has traditionally had the option to lock down the operating system to prevent the installation of potentially insecure or non-approved applications. This consumerization of IT (as well as the budgetary incentive of offsetting inventory costs) has led companies to establish “bring your own device” (BYOD) policies that enable employees to select their own personal mobile devices for use at work

ssl vpn , access control

Wireless LANs (WLANs) offer the flexibility to work from more locations, boosting productivity for employees, on-site partners, contractors, and guests. At retail and professional settings, such as cafés or clinic waiting rooms, WLANs enhance customer experience and satisfaction, increasing sales and loyalty. WLANs can also off set costs of deploying a wired infrastructure. WLANs can also be used to off set the cost of deploying a wired infrastructure.

wireless security

The proliferation of consumer technology on campuses has created new challenges for IT departments. Will the pendulum swing back toward centralized IT, or is consumerization knocking down the old ways forever?

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In an evolving threat landscape, organizations of all sizes will find it increasingly difficult to avoid a security breach or loss of data. Many turn to multi-layer security management solutions, but not all solutions are created equal. Discover how WatchGuard leverages best-in-class security services powered by leading security industry specialists for true defense-in-depth protection

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This paper highlights cost benefits of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR), compliance drivers, and the need for a secure EHR network as the foundation for delivering quality care, compliance, and higher reimbursements. We also summarize how WatchGuard solutions help healthcare organizations foster a day-to-day culture of proactive and real-time information security in preparation for increasing reliance on EHR technology.

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Virtualization is part of an overall trend within IT to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and workloads. Questions have arisen around security within virtualized environments and if they are as safe as physical environments or even perhaps safer. This white paper addresses the challenges that are faced and how to tackle them successfully.

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Although setting up a corporate Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) can be daunting, it is the foundation to business security. This white paper addresses why an AUP is not only necessary, it also must be monitored and enforced. Learn how to effectively reduce risks and empower employees.

white paper , watchguard , Policy

The more you become aware of the facts about cyber-bullying, the better prepared you'll be to end online harassment over your school's network. This white paper looks at the technology required to stop cyber-bullying and the steps school administrators can take to ensure students are protected. Learn the facts about cyber-bullying today!

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In this report, Info-Tech Research Group evaluates ten competitors in the networking perimeter Unified Threat Management (UTM) market. Based on their analysis of product features, affordability, usability, architecture, and vendor viability, strategy, reach and channel, WatchGuard was deemed to be a Champion due to its "balance of strong product and vendor capabilities at a market-leading price point, [WatchGuard] leads with a UTM solution that can deliver benefits to any organization."

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Email encryption is fast becoming the must-have technology to achieve regulatory compliance, secure corporate assets, and protect privacy. Effective, affordable, and easy-to-use encryption was once unheard of. Now businesses can have it all.

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This white paper examines five steps to better security that today's retail businesses can't afford to ignore on their networks – from application control to data loss prevention – to ensure business continuity and PCI DSS compliance.

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Sensitive information enters and exits company networks every day, and getting caught losing that confidential information is expensive, disruptive, and damaging to carefully nurtured corporate images. Whether your data loss is accidental or malicious, you need to gain insight into the magnitude of your data loss problem, identify security gaps, and develop a proactive approach to stop data loss before it happens.

white paper , watchguard , data loss prevention

The staggering number of new applications – especially web 2.0 apps – has IT scrambling to keep up with increased security risks, productivity issues, and bandwidth usage. That some of these applications are necessary at times, depending on a user's job description, makes it all the harder to manage. Read this white paper to find out how WatchGuard Application Control lets you take back control of your network by keeping more than 1,800 applications in check, including IM, P2P, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, and many more.

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With so many anti-spam products on the market, how can you be sure you're getting the best solution for your business network? With these ten critical questions as your guide, you can cut through the marketing hype and zero in on the key features and benefits that should guide your decision.

white paper , watchguard , guide

Protect your company's valuable assets from web-based attacks with an innovative, effective new form of web security – cloud-based, reputation-driven defense. Turns out that this cloud-based protection can also help with your network's ever-increasing need for speed by significantly reducing web processing overhead. Find out how it works and why it's actually possible now to move the battle for web security off your web servers.

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Cloud-based security is a red hot topic these days, but is it hype or the real deal? Read this white paper for a look at how and why the latest generation of in-the-cloud security really does deliver big dividends for your organization's network security posture.

white paper , watchguard , cloud security

Protecting the assets of the Energy Industry – what some call the largest productivity machine in the world – is critically important. This paper reviews trends in industry regulations, increased enforcement activities, and new security requirements. Find out how the game is changing and what energy companies can do to stay safe from cyber attacks, while meeting stringent compliance standards.

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Complying with regulations to protect confidential data is serious business. This white paper offers a new perspective on what an easy-to-use, all-inclusive email and web secure content and threat prevention appliance can do to protect your business.

white paper , watchguard , compliance

This Special Report focuses on campus technology, including data centers, network security, telecommunications and networking systems, technology support, IT management systems. At a time when schools of all kinds are on a financial diet, the way to a healthy future is through greater efficiencies and effectiveness. To get there, a campus must create a healthy infrastructure that is lean and sustainable.

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PCI DSS regulations have changed since they were first implemented. If you are in the retail or hospitality industries, it's important to know what the standards are now. Read this white paper for a fresh look at security for debit and credit card transactions under PCI DSS and how WatchGuard XCS appliances can keep your network compliant.

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With the right security technology, healthcare organizations can protect sensitive patient information while meeting requirements and reducing the costs of compliance. But what is the right technology? This white paper maps out what to look for in security products and services to help you enhance quality of care, protect sensitive data, and enable compliance while holding down costs.

white paper , watchguard , compliance

Take a look "under the hood" at the new XTM (extensible threat management) network security from WatchGuard. See the tangible benefits this new generation of security solutions offer. No hype – just concrete examples of XTM features and the advantages they deliver that you can evaluate against your current security needs. Find out why one well-known technology publication called the WatchGuard XTM firewall "a UTM firewall on steroids."

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Don't limit your potential to connect offsite and traveling employees because of outdated expectations. Advances in SSL VPN technology mean that businesses can now offer secure remote access with much more flexibility, access control, and ease of use – and at less cost. Read this white paper to find out what you should be demanding from an SSL VPN appliance today to get the very best connectivity for your far-flung business team.

ssl vpn , white paper , watchguard

Due to the recent economic downturn, many small businesses have to assess how budget cuts and reduced headcount are going to affect their network security posture. In this white paper we explore opportunities that will allow for businesses to maintain IT value as it relates to network security, while building a solid foundation for future growth. Read this white paper to ensure that the health of your network security is being properly addressed.

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Sloppy data security can put you out of business, fast. In fact, the US Department of Labor has warned that 93% of businesses that suffer a significant data loss go out of business within five years. Don't be caught with homemade security when industrial-strength attackers hit your small business network. Download this white paper to find out how to get the business-grade network security you need to succeed.

white paper , watchguard , small business

If you're in retail or hospitality, mandatory PCI DSS compliance requirements may seem like a burden. But there's a return on your investment if you handle compliance properly. Read this insightful white paper for a fresh look at how compliance can lead to big business benefits.

white paper , watchguard , PCI DSS

What is the actual dollar value of stronger network security? We don't mean hypothetically; we're talking about documented cases of network attacks and the very real costs to the businesses that experienced them. This white paper looks at two major retailers and how they could have saved themselves millions of dollars, not to mention their reputations as secure businesses, by using a WatchGuard network security solution. Download the white paper to learn more about attacks that have succeeded against networks like yours, and the specific ways in which WatchGuard can help your network stay safe

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For a seasoned and no-nonsense perspective on what types of data compromises most often occur in the real world, read this white paper by long-time WatchGuard security analyst Scott Pinzon, CISSP. It lists the ten most common vectors of data compromise, with practical techniques and defenses to counter each vector.

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Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked, then contrasts the established model with startling botnet innovations that emerged in 2007 and are continuing to evolve. Examples describe botnets known as Zunker, Gozi, Storm, MayDay, and a kit known as Mpack that helps botmasters easily create malicious web sites. After explaining why the latest innovations make bots a more serious threat than ever, the paper concludes by suggesting defensive countermeasures.

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In seeking PCI DSS compliance, it is critical to design a network with appropriate physical and logical boundaries to segregate the PCI-compliant operating environment. The PCI DSS monitoring scope must also be made manageable. Download this white paper to find out how the strong segregation capability available with the application proxy technology of the WatchGuard® XTM family of UTM appliances is ideally suited to meeting these standards. Use the handy tables included at the end of the white paper to track the specific PCI DSS requirements met with an XTM deployment.

white paper , watchguard , PCI DSS

With the increasing sophistication and ease with which hackers attack, IT managers must train their end users on wireless security, specifying wireless router hardware and configuration settings, and in some cases, providing firewall/VPN endpoint appliances (managed from the data center) for key employees' in-home use. This white paper covers eight essential tips for nailing down security for off-site wireless users. Share it with your remote users today to help them work from home safely

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Unified threat management (UTM) spawned a new era of IT security. The promise of these integrated security appliances proved to be an exceptional and efficient way of securing commercial networks. Businesses today face an inflection point, with changing market trends and new technologies that demand more of today's UTM. Hence the need is for eXtensible threat management (XTM) solutions, the next generation of UTM appliances. This paper provides an overview of these issues and the WatchGuard® perspective on "extensibility" and XTM

utm , white paper , watchguard

Keeping corporate networks safe is more challenging every year, and network security has become one of the most critical issues facing businesses today. New and ever-changing threats appear with alarming regularity, and no organization is immune from risk. So what's a network to do? The answer lies in Unified Threat Management (UTM), in which multi-layered security works in conjunction with signature-based solutions and other capabilities to provide solid, comprehensive protection against complex threats

utm , white paper , watchguard

In the past, most organizations have taken a piecemeal approach to deploying mobile identity and access management through VPNs, authentication, or single sign-on products. WatchGuard SSL solutions bring it all together by providing a central administration console that manages all aspects of identity and access control, including endpoint and mid-point integrity, clientless VPN, single sign-on and federated identities, authentication, policy management, and auditing. Read how this adds up to powerful protection and reduced administration costs for your business

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In the past, most organizations have taken a piecemeal approach to deploying mobile identity and access management through VPNs, authentication, or single sign-on products. WatchGuard SSL solutions bring it all together by providing a central administration console that manages all aspects of identity and access control, including endpoint and mid-point integrity, clientless VPN, single sign-on and federated identities, authentication, policy management, and auditing. Read how this adds up to powerful protection and reduced administration costs for your business.

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In the past, most organizations have taken a piecemeal approach to deploying mobile identity and access management through VPNs, authentication, or single sign-on products. WatchGuard SSL solutions bring it all together by providing a central administration console that manages all aspects of identity and access control, including endpoint and mid-point integrity, clientless VPN, single sign-on and federated identities, authentication, policy management, and auditing. Read how this adds up to powerful protection and reduced administration costs for your business.

ssl vpn , white paper , watchguard

This paper lays out a common-sense approach to writing corporate security policies that makes them easier to draft, maintain, and enforce. Our "question and answer" approach requires no outside consultants. Instead, you can use your in-house knowledge and resources to yield a brief, usable, and — most importantly — understandable policy document, in a reasonable amount of time.

white paper , watchguard , Policy

From businesses and homes to public spaces, it's easier than ever to work using Wi-Fi connections. Wi-Fi is convenient and cost-effective, but wireless networks' security implications can quickly nullify any benefits that they may offer: a business working with sensitive or private information and operating on an insecure network can open itself up to serious litigation in the event of a security breach. This white paper examines common wireless security controls, current hacker tricks, and recent legislative responses to Internet crime. And so you're not left up the wireless security creek, we give you specific steps you can take to avoid the risks.

wireless security , white paper , watchguard

Dell™ SonicWALL™ Wireless Guest Services (WGS) allows guest users to connect wirelessly and securely to the Internet without accessing your protected network resources. Enabled through Dell SonicWALL wireless access, WGS can establish enterprise-secure wireless hotspots in any location where guests, customers or the public congregate and need authorized WiFi access.

wireless security

With YouTube for Schools enabled by a SonicWALL® Next-Generation Firewall, school administrators and teachers can log in and watch any video. Students cannot access the administrator level, and they can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. Any web requests by students to go to the regular YouTube.com site get automatically redirected to YouTube EDU. All comments and related videos are disabled and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos. All schools get access to all of the YouTube EDU content, but teachers and administrators can also create playlists of videos that are viewable only within their school's network.

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What IT organizations need is a single solution that can effectively address both problems, by controlling all application traffic and mitigating all corresponding threats. Fortunately, Next-Generation Firewalls with application intelligence, control and visualization capabilities, such as the SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series, can leverage the benefits of the cloud securely and with confidence. Next-Generation Firewalls allow IT organizations to identify and enforce policy-based controls on both cloud-based and on-premise applications in use, and securely identify users regardless of port or protocol. These solutions can help manage bandwidth for cloud applications and users, as well as eliminate the malware and productivity threats that come along with cloud consumption.

NG Firewall , cloud

Federal cybersecurity transformation really took off following a year-long cybersecurity pilot test conducted by the State Department, which implemented continuous monitoring and risk-based scoring to track and manage IT vulnerabilities. Automated data collection helped the State Department reduce overall risk on a key unclassified network by 90 percent.

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Enterprise security solutions from Dell SonicWALL help mitigate related security, compliance, and performance challenges, enabling today's enterprises to more fully achieve the cost of ownership, scalability, and agility benefits associated with cloud computing and SaaS approaches for IT service delivery.

cloud security , cloud computing

Network security has evolved and point solutions have arisen to deal with them, ranging from content filtering to IPS to Integrated Next-Generation Firewalls. Management of multipledevices has become expensive and complex. Instead of buying, connecting and managing a loose patchwork of point solutions, now you can get all you need in one consolidated Next-Generation Firewall.

NG Firewall

Retail is more competitive today than ever before. Whether selling out of a single storefront, a network of kiosks, through a global retail enterprise with multiple store locations or online, today's retailers increasingly leverage technology to provide the decisive edge. While new technologies such as broadband, VoIP or wireless can open your network resources to prospects, customers, partners, vendors and staff , they also create new channels for malicious or inadvertent threats.

network optimization

Awareness of a network vulnerability often comes by a system monitoring alert, log file review or vendor press release. As a security administrator, your job is to quickly decide if it poses a real threat to your network, how to remedy that threat, and the priority for action. Your operational challenge is linking an alarm to actual network activity by specific users. The lack of specific data often forces security professionals to guess at the degree of exposure, or whether a breach actually occurred. Without sufficient network forensics data, your ability to identify the scope of a security event or verify compliance with security policy is ineffective.

Policy

The challenges facing grade school educators are greater than ever before. The standards for academic achievement and the expectations of students' families continue to climb. At the same time, education budgets are tighter. Schools' technology infrastructures are caught in the middle, requiring K-12 IT administrators to literally do more with less. Networked resources have addressed some qualitative issues. Online instruction materials and classroom management services supplement teachers' capabilities and free them from administrative chores.

firewall , network optimization

E-Class Network Security Appliances pave the way for today's enterprises to fully realize the benefits of server virtualization and resulting dynamic datacenters by providing IT departments with a highly effective and affordable solution to a handful of related security challenges.

Enterprise Security

The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last five years, driven by changing business and economic demands, different patterns of working and a continuous stream of new technologies. In this environment of 'Business 2.0', the network is the organization's vital beating heart, a strategic business tool used by companies to drive significant competitive advantage.

Enterprise Security

The Distributed Office Scenario: A number of critical issues and ongoing developments are driving both a need for better network security and for network optimization between office locations.

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User authentication is a process in which users’ credentials are required by the firewall gateways before the users are to communicate with the external network (typically the Internet). In case users fail to provide proper credentials when requested by the firewall gateways, their access request to the Internet network is denied, and users are not allowed to communicate with the external network.

access control , authentication

Firewalls play an important role when it comes to security of data from external threats and prevention from intrusions. Almost every small, medium and large scale organization installs one or more firewalls to filter incoming and outgoing packets on the basis of defined rule-sets in order to protect sensitive data from theft and misuse

Implementation , firewall , DMZ , network optimization , IP Address

Bandwidth management is a process in which the entire bandwidth is distributed among multiple elements of the network on priority basis. While managing the bandwidth, administrators can allocate the minimum and maximum amount of bandwidth for: Service, protocol, Application, Application, Port, Source/Destination IP Addresses.

Bandwidth , Best Practice

Hardware failover is a process in which at least two hardware firewall devices work together in active/passive configuration. The active firewall is called primary whereas the firewall that remains in passive mode is known as the secondary or more often a backup firewall. The primary and backup firewalls are connected to each other through a dedicated LAN connection.

Hardware Failover

WAN failover is the process in which redundant WAN connections are configured to increase WAN uptime. To establish WAN failover, two separate WAN connections from different ISPs are required which work as primary and secondary connections. It is important that both WAN connections are from different ISPs so that if any problem arises in the WAN link from one ISP, link from second ISP can be used to establish a WAN connection.

Hardware Failover

Network security a few years ago was not a part of an organization's annual budget where traditional wired computers sent secure information to the server placed in an isolated network and traditional routers with a basic firewall performed the job of securing an organization's network. This was a primitive age of network security when network security was little known and considered as an avoidable expense.

utm , cyberoam , web and application filter , vpn module

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about Next Generation Firewalls. Is it a new technology? Is it an old technology in a new avatar? Is it a new dimension to the security business? Does it provide better security than its UTM counterpart? This paper intends to clear the mysterious air around Next Generation Firewalls and raises the lurking question: Are Next Generation Firewalls really all that different from other security solutions?

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Talking about businesses today, things seem changed. Employees today have attached their personal devices to their work flows. Whether somebody chooses an Apple or an Android or a Blackberry or a Windows device, it is now about including these devices to a network. This whitepaper, talks about both the pros and cons of this new evolving trend and also about solutions to the issues it proposes.

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Gone are the days when we talk about Celerons, P3 and P4. Now iPhone, iPad, Android, Smartphones and Tablets are the new buzz words. In last decade we have witnessed a huge change in market and usage of mobile devices. From personal usage to BYOD and CYOD, these devices have become integral part of our day to day life.This white paper covers the security threats associated with mobile devices and key steps to mitigate the risks.

cyberoam , vpn module , smart phone

Companies, big and small, must ensure constant availability of their company's network and data and prepare themselves against a wide variety of threats like fire, internet outages, hardware failures, theft, covert access, etc. Cyberoam's High Availability provides an ideal solution by ensuring continuous connectivity at the Hardware, Network as well as Application levels.

Hardware Failover , cyberoam , ha , Load Balancing

Web applications have increased the speed and accessibility to business information for every organization using it. They also ensure tangible savings for every business. But today, Web applications are the most common target for attack by hackers because they are ubiquitous and provide easy entry to virtually any organization's lucrative data.

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Organizations are quickly realizing that access to applications must be controlled not just for the vast number of vulnerabilities they introduce to the network, but also for the excessive mis-use of bandwidth they consume and the considerable loss of productivity

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Robust, Fault-tolerant security is a must for companies sporting wireless networks. Cyberoam UTM strengthens the existing Wireless Security Architecture of these companies and overcomes most challenges of securing their legacy IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLAN).

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Network security devices that select security and sacrifice connectivity and productivity in the process, disturb the Security-Connectivity-Productivity balance and put organizations behind in the race for business growth. A state of equilibrium among each of the S-C-P elements can bring process optimization and greater efficiencies to a business.

utm , network optimization , cyberoam

Cyberoam's Extensible Security Architecture (ESA) allows organizations to get maximum value out of their money on the purchase of a UTM appliance. The architecture was designed in response to the fact that most enterprise networks do not have one-size fits all environments, thus, any security appliance must organically grow to accommodate different threat scenarios in the future

utm , firewall , cyberoam

What if your VPN is securing a malware? Is the VPN used to deliver malware securely? Attackers are leveraging insecure VPN connections to access critical data inside the enterprise. The attacks on TJX, Heartland Payment Systemsand even the attacks on Google, Adobe andmore than 30 other large technology companies, defense contractors and big companies, were carried out remotely with legitimate access over VPN connections.

cyberoam , vpn module

This whitepaper introduces you to Cyberoam UTM's patent-pending Layer 8 technology. It treats user identity as the 8th Layer or the human layer in the network protocol stack, enabling organizations to overcome the limitations of conventional UTMs/firewalls which bind security to IP addresses alone.

utm , cyberoam

What are the security challenges in a Terminal Server environment? Will your security solution give you total security at no extra cost? What are the hidden costs that you need to be aware of? Here we have answered all these questions to aid the user.

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By focusing on user identity as the basis for security, identity-based UTM appliances offer a comprehensive Defense against current threat tactics. They are poised to become the next generation solutions to emerging IT security and compliance challenges.

utm , NG Firewall , cyberoam

In the security industry, a good UI design can make a product easy to use and configure, which results in greater user acceptance and security. Using the principles of usability and Web 2.0 technology, a security software GUI can reduce the frequency and severity of errors and enable administrators to recover from errors easily and quickly, giving them full control of the security solution.

utm , cyberoam

Firewalls and anti-virus alone are not enough to provide comprehensive security to organizations when external threats like viruses, worms, Trojans, spam, are taking blended forms of attack. Learn how Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances like Cyberoam, the all-in-one security appliances

utm , firewall , cyberoam

Traditional ways of looking at firewalls limit organizations' ability to meet the fight for bandwidth brought up by the movement of internal applications to the Cloud. Cyberoam, the identity-based UTM, comprehensively covers the 4 elements - Application, User, Time and Bandwidth - all of which can easily be handled through Layer 7 - Layer 8 visibility and controls to make bandwidth available for critical applications and stagger non-critical application usage.

utm , firewall , cyberoam

Intrusion Prevention Systems are an essential feature of network security. Read scenarios of external and internal intrusions that can be prevented through IPS and the need for user identity. Only Cyberoam UTM offers identity-based IPS that ensures effective security.

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Viruses and other malware have far reaching financial, security and productivity implications to organizations. Read the scenarios where virus enters via different protocols like SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, FTP, the security implications of each and how Cyberoam UTM's granular anti-virus security offers protection against malware.

utm , firewall , cyberoam

Spyware poses a serious threat to information security, causing data leakage, tracks user activity and is an important component of the illegal online trade in personal information. Cyberoam's blended protection through firewall and content filtering prevents spyware from entering the network.

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Phishing is a threat to user and organization's security, causing leakage of personal credentials that leads to exposure of intellectual property and financial loss. Using deceptive emails that lure users to malicious websites and dupe them into disclosing their personal details, they are a serious threat to corporate and personal data. Cyberoam's blended protection with content filtering and anti-spam provides effective protection against phishing.

phishing , cyberom

Pharming uses social engineering to obtain access credentials such as usernames and passwords of the Internet users. It is therefore vital that organizations secure themselves early on against such scams. Through its blended approach, using features like Spyware Blocker, anti-spam, anti-virus, content filtering solutions, Cyberoam delivers dependable protection against pharming attacks with no extra cost involved for this security.

cyberoam , Pharming

Spam accounts for over 90 % of all mail today. Unsolicited, unwanted phishing, pharming, spyware and other malware carrying emails, are not just a productivity issue, they cause serious security breaches too. Read about evolving spam techniques and their implication to organizations.

cyberoam , spam

Instant messaging today has evolved into a valuable communications tool for millions of business users. Besides the benefits, they also encounter IM risks pertaining to malware propagation and data leakage. Identity-based Instant Messaging controls that can scan for malware and log and control access, conversation, file transfer and voice/webcam between users in the network can ensure security of private IMs over Public IMs.

cyberoam , im

Indiscriminate Internet surfing and bandwidth-guzzling downloads by internal users leave enterprises with insufficient bandwidth for business-critical applications. Abundant data that swell to use any available bandwidth, network bottlenecks, and bandwidth hungry applications all seem to conspire against network performance.

Bandwidth

Organizations running mission critical applications over the Internet understand the importance of having stable, redundant and fast connections for their business needs. Single ISP links can leave business-critical applications of enterprises vulnerable to link failures, resulting in severe business losses

Hardware Failover

IPv6 - short for Internet Protocol Version 6 - is the next-generation protocol that will replace the current version Internet Protocol, IP Version 4 (IPv4). The global internet routing based on 32-bit addresses of IPv4 is becoming increasingly strained and the Internet will eventually run out of network numbers.

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Flash drives simplify the process of carrying data from the endpoints. However, they also bring a serious downside - exposing data on endpoints to risk of leakage and theft. Small size, easy affordability and play-and-play use make it difficult for organizations to know who is taking their data, when and where.

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Zappos (a popular, Amazon-owned, online shoe reseller) warned its employees and customers that an attacker had gained access to their internal network, and made off with a bunch of sensitive customer information. The good news? The attacker did not gain access to any customer credit card info. The bad news? He or she did steal over 24 million users’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and encrypted or hashed passwords.

password

you’ve followed security or technical news over the last few days, you’ve probably heard about the “Flame” worm. This interesting new piece of malware belongs to a class of attack called an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), and it’s making headlines worldwide. As a result, many of you may be wondering whether or not this nasty sounding malware will affect your organization. My short answer is, “probably not,” but read on to learn more.

watchguard , antivirus

Compared to the last few months, this week seems relatively quiet as far as security stories are concerned. We saw some security incidents this week, but nothing that would catch your hair on fire.

malware , watchguard

Historically, APT attacks have been created by sophisticated hackers using advanced attack techniques and blended threat malware, but it is only a matter of time before “normal” malware criminals learn from these sophisticated hacks and the evolution of the APT speeds up, making organizations of every size a target.

malware , watchguard

Radio Free Security (RFS) is a monthly audio podcast dedicated to spreading knowledge about network and information security, and to keeping busy IT administrators apprised of the latest security threats they face online. Here’s what to expect in April’s episode:

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Have you noticed more and more employees walking around with iPhones, Droids, and iPads? If so, you’re not alone, and this month’s Radio Free Security episode might help you learn how to mitigate this BYOD security problem.

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Many of the Media’s articles characterize this complicated TCP connection attack as, “a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection” or as a “hole” in firewalls. I’m not sure that these descriptions properly characterize this vulnerability, and I suspect many administrators may not really understand how this attack works (let alone what it does and doesn’t allow an attacker to accomplish). I hope to try and rectify that in this post.

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WatchGuard now has an iOS app that can deliver WatchGuard Security Center content, and much more, directly to your Apple mobile. The app is called WatchGuard REDnews, and you can download it today from the App Store in iTunes or on your iOS device.

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These vulnerabilities affect: All current version of Microsoft Office Publisher and Visio How an attacker exploits them: By enticing you to open maliciously crafted Publisher or Visio documents Impact: An attacker can execute code, potentially gaining complete control of your computer What to do: Install the appropriate Office Publisher and Visio patches immediately, or let Microsoft’s Automatic Update do it for you.

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This vulnerability affects: Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which ships with all current versions of Office. How an attacker exploits it: By tricking one of your users into opening a malicious Office document. Impact: An attacker can potentially gain complete control of your windows computers (depending on the privileges of the user). What to do: Download, test, and install Microsoft’s update as soon as possible, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you

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This vulnerability affects: The email client shipping with any current version of Windows (whether it’s Outlook Express or Windows Mail). How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users to connect to a malicious POP3 or IMAP email server (or by performing a man-in-the-middle attack). Impact: An attacker can execute malicious code, potentially gaining full control of your users computer. What to do: Download, test, and install Microsoft’s email client updates as soon as possible, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you

Outlook

DNSSEC makes some significant changes to the way typical DNS traffic “looks” to networking devices. As a result, some experts worry that certain networks and devices may not handle DNSSEC traffic properly after this change, thus potentially preventing you from accessing the Internet (using domain names). Below, we’ll list a few of the DNSSEC changes that could affect some of your networking gear. However, the main point of this alert is to inform you that WatchGuard’s Firebox and XTM appliances should handle the DNSSEC changes without problem — whether you use our packet filtered or proxied DNS policies.

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These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac (specifically Word and Excel). How an attacker exploits them: Typically, by enticing you to open maliciously crafted Office documents. Impact: An attacker can execute code, potentially gaining complete control of your computer. What to do: Install the appropriate Office patches immediately, or let Windows Update do it for you.

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For the new listeners out there, Radio Free Security (RFS) is a monthly podcast, dedicated to spreading knowledge about network and information security, and to keeping busy IT administrators apprised of the latest security threats they face online. WatchGuard’s LiveSecurity team started RFS back in January, 2007. However, we’ve been off the air since 2009 — but that all changes today, with our first return episode!

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As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the effectiveness of WatchGuard XCS appliances to protect from data loss, new viruses, and malware, and to enable organizations to customize their environments, WatchGuard is pleased to announce the availability of XCS 9.2 Update 4.

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These vulnerabilities affect: The IIS FTP service running on Windows Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2. How an attacker exploits them: By sending specially crafted FTP commands or accessing a local log file. Impact: In the worst case, a local attacker can learn the credentials for a local account. What to do: Deploy the appropriate IIS update at your earliest convenience.

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These vulnerabilities affect: Excel (and Office) 2003 through 2010 for Mac and PC (and related components). How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users to open a malicious Excel document. Impact: In the worst case, an attacker executes code on your user’s computer, gaining complete control of it. What to do: Install Microsoft’s Excel updates as soon as possible, or let Microsoft’s automatic update do it for you.

Office Document

These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and the .NET Framework. How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing users to view malicious fonts or to open specially crafted Briefcase folders. Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer. What to do: Install the appropriate Microsoft patches as soon as possible, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you.

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These vulnerabilities affect: Internet Explorer (IE) 9 only. How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a malicious web page. Impact: An attacker can execute code on your user’s computer, often gaining complete control of it. What to do: Install Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 updates immediately, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you.

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It’s Microsoft Patch Day and I have a question for you. How quick are you at applying software updates? Do you jump on them within the day; a week, or are you months behind?

Windows 8

Application control is a process in which security administrators can limit or completely restrict users’ access to unwanted/untrusted applications. Some application control systems also allow security administrators to configure the control settings even granularly so that an application can be made available to some users, while restricting the access to same application for other users.

Application Control

HTTPS content inspection is the process in which the entire content that is transmitted over SSL channel is scanned for malicious elements, and checked against configured policies before allowing or denying the content to pass through the gateway and enter into the network. Unlike Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) where each packet is inspected for malware, spyware, etc., in HTTPS content inspection the entire payload is scanned and verified to be trusted before making it available to the requesting party. The process of HTTPS content inspection ensures that no harmful and inappropriate information enters into the network, even if requested by any internal computer.

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