On October 16, 2017, a statement from the International Consortium for Advancement of Cybersecurity on the Internet (ICASI) was released alerting the industry to a series of vulnerabilities for WPA and WPA2. These vulnerabilities are at the protocol-level and affect a large...
According to the 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, 63 percent of confirmed data breaches involved leveraging weak default or stolen passwords, proving that multi-factor authentication is a critical component to any organisation’s overall approach to data security. To address...
Introduction Small and midsize businesses and distributed enterprises continue to fall victim to advanced malware attacks that have serious impact on business productivity and continuity. Ransomware, a type of advanced malware that denies victims to data and systems, has been shown...
WatchGuard’s Host Sensors now integrate with APT Blocker to conduct controlled endpoint threat analysis and stop unknown and evasive attacks SEATTLE – September 21, 2017 – WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in advanced network security solutions, today announced feature updates to its cloud-based...
We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Threat Detection and Response (TDR) 5.1, which includes some great new features that enhance both detection and response to threats as well as the overall user experience when testing new features. This...
Introduction Across midsize businesses and distributed enterprises, including public sectors, migrating in-house data processing to the cloud has become an accepted strategy for IT departments and service providers. This can raise eyebrows within the security department because data security controls that were...
Fireware 12.0 General Availability We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of Fireware 12.0 and WSM 12.0 after a comprehensive Beta where the release was installed 400 Fireboxes around the world. These significant new releases are now available for...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of the AP420, our indoor 802.11ac Wave 2 4x4 access point. The AP420’s Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) features mean it’s perfectly suited for the highest client density deployments. This access point easily...
I’m excited to announce the availability today of four new mid-range Firebox appliances that provide industry leading performance, especially with all security capabilities enabled, along with greater flexibility in network port configurations. Over past few years at WatchGuard we’ve consistently...
