WatchGuard XCS

WatchGuard XCS 770R

The technical solution of WatchGuard XCS 770R which is specially created for meeting requirements of the companies of medium business provides the unsurpassed security level entering and the outgoing e-mail, comprehensive control of web content, protection of applications and data. The solution WatchGuard XCS 770R has support of a hardware RAID which provides to clients additional fault tolerance of a security system of e-mail at the affordable price.

The solution WatchGuard XCS 770R is developed and optimized for corporate networks with number of users from 1,000 to 5,000 and more. Using the advanced technologies of determination and blocking of spam allowing to analyze information on the sender and contents of the message, including the image, the application and which are built in letters of the URL link, this solution can perform contextual analysis of traffic for assessment of messages and their categorization that provides protection with high degree of intellectuality and reliability.

System administrators will appreciate the quarantine which is built in the device for spam and suspicious e-mails which provides the additional level of control of messages and gives the chance to end users to manage "white" and "black" lists of the e-mail using the convenient web interface.

Considering a problem of constantly growing danger of the mixed threats and malware, the solution WatchGuard XCS 770R provides protection against zero day attacks and also expanded content filtering and protection against malware, scanning the entering and outgoing e-mails on existence of harmful contents.

Today many companies are faced the need of observance of the big list of the regulatory and statutory requirements imposed to data transmission channels. The solution WatchGuard XCS 770R with support of a hardware RAID provides uninterrupted protection of e-mail and also automatic blocking of sending, departure of the letter in a quarantine, change of a delivery route, creation of the hidden copy of the letter, enciphering or permission of sending has ample opportunities for data loss prevention (functionality of DLP), for example.

The operations performed by a system are based on the flexible configured politicians. For ensuring the most convenient management process and setup there are preset dictionaries of compliance to the GLB, HIPAA, PCI DSS standards, etc. The integrated enciphering of e-mail provides protection of confidential messages, without requiring at the same time a dedicated server of enciphering that allows to avoid excess costs. Besides, electronic profiling, i.e. creation of "prints" of documents and the subsequent classification of these "prints" allow to group documents as confidentiality of data.

As well as Reputation Enabled Defense — the innovation service of security WatchGuard founded on "cloud" technologies can use all WatchGuard devices of the XCS series, the solution XCS 770R. Reputation Enabled Defense, using "black" DNS lists, dynamic ranges of the IP addresses, functions of the analysis of behavior and check of content, with an accuracy of 99.99% blocks up to 98.3% of spam before it is able to get into network of the company. Considering that spam is also means of spread of viruses, phishing mailings and the mixed threats, Reputation Enabled Defense has function of preliminary verification of messages that eliminates undesirable traffic and does network infrastructure of the company of the "deep protection of network" against WatchGuard which was more protected within architecture.

The companies can use the solution WatchGuard XCS 770R for providing a comprehensive protection of web content. To reduce potential impact of web threats, administrators can create and apply uniform usage policy and control of web applications, to extend it means of centralized operation, creating at the same time conditions of restrictions and applying policy to certain users and groups.

WatchGuard XCS 9.1 Update 2

The software update is free for clients of WatchGuard Technologies and gives to users new opportunities of enciphering of e-mail messages and also does process of blocking of spam easier. Updating of WatchGuard XCS 9.1 Update 2 gives the chance to use the new program superstructure of WatchGuard XCS which is integrated with the client of Microsoft Outlook. The superstructure allows users to add a tag to any received messages which were not classified by XCS filters easily. Besides, using this superstructure users can independently separate the addresses of senders into entrusted and blocked. The equipment WatchGuard XCS obtains these data from clients that increases efficiency of the solutions XCS at accomplishment of message handling of e-mail.

At the same time, WatchGuard expands possibilities of solutions of the XCS series using new service of enciphering of e-mail SecureMail. This service allows users to cipher outgoing messages directly on the WatchGuard XCS device without use of the third-party server of enciphering or the additional software.

The solutions WatchGuard XCS, combining advanced technologies of verification of e-mail with opportunities of the systems of data loss prevention (DLP) and determination of reputation of external information resources, provide "deep" protection against spam, viruses, malware and other types of the mixed threats. WatchGuard XCS devices have functionality of protection against threats of "zero day" and give an opportunity of automatic receiving the last updates that provides timely protection against new types of spywares, rootkits, malware for mobile devices and other threats.

Updating of July, 2011

• Convenient and intuitive setup wizard of DLP functions;
• The instrument of quick access to the often carried most out tasks;
• The system of blocking of spam based on signatures;
• The improved management system for investments in e-mail messages;
• The detailed management of DLP with a possibility of creation of the difficult enclosed rules;
• Notifications on violation of statutory rules;
• The improved system of tracking of messages;
• Completely updated filtering Web Proxy function;
• The FTP scanning function allowing to raise the security level of file exchange;
• Use of the improved function of Web caching allows to increase efficiency of scanning of content;
• Expanded management tools URL addresses;
• The simplified and improved tools of a software update;
• The improved possibilities of drawing up reports on Web use.

The solutions WatchGuard XCS have also the system of the protection against spam based on the analysis of content. A system has a possibility of self-training in the course of message exchange that allows to make more exact decisions when processing spam. WatchGuard XCS provide the improved protection against undesirable e-mails and phishing attacks which purpose is theft of confidential data of users. Besides, WatchGuard XCS devices with the updated software have the new potential of Web Proxy and expanded means of processing and management which are not categorized by URL. As a result considerably the efficiency of scanning of Web traffic increases, waiting time decreases, consumption of capacity and load of the server decreases.

In September, 2011 Rainbow Security announced that since October, 2011 sales of the solutions WatchGuard XCS in Russia start. WatchGuard Technologies will present at the Russian market devices of the XCS series (Extensible Content Security) with the built-in Antivirus of Kaspersky for protection of e-mail, web applications and also data loss prevention. The solutions WatchGuard XCS ensure complex safety of e-mail, blocking 98% of undesirable traffic and network threats with an accuracy of 99.9% in real time. WatchGuard XCS devices guarantee reliable protection of network against the viruses, a malicious code, phishing attacks, threats of "zero day" getting into network via e-mail. Having the best means of data loss prevention, WatchGuard XCS provide complete confidentiality of information and compliance to all regulatory requirements. These solutions satisfy requirements of the organizations of any size – from small business to the largest data processing centers and Internet service providers. Working together with Antivirus of Kaspersky, the solutions WatchGuard XCS provide the first-class level of detection of threats and antivirus protection of all network in general. Advantages of the joint solution WatchGuard Technologies and Kaspersky Labs:

• Fast response at emergence of new threats – as a rule, less than 2 hours,
• Unsurpassed level of detection of threats of "zero day",
• Optimal ratio of frequency (10 times a day) and the amount of updates (less than 50 CBs) of anti-virus bases,
• Centralized operation by security policies,
• Multilevel and multilateral analysis of traffic.

WatchGuard of the XCSv series for the virtual VMware platform

The solutions WatchGuard of the XCSv series are developed for the virtual VMware platform, have ample opportunities on prevention of leakages of confidential data (DLP), provide protection of e-mail and instant messaging systems (IM).

In the nearest future four versions of virtual solutions of the XCSv series for the small, medium-sized and large companies will be available. Level of the protection provided by the new virtual solutions XCSv is also high, as well as at hardware solutions of WatchGuard of the XCS series.

As at once several copies of the solutions XCSv can work at one vSphere hypervisor, virtual solutions of WatchGuard are ideal for providers of services of security (MSSP), a hosting of providers and big IT companies. Besides, WatchGuard XCSv can be unrolled together with mail and Web servers, they perfectly are suitable for implementation of security policies between domains, applications and user groups. The solutions XCSv can be deployed even in the small companies having only one server.

At the moment the solutions WatchGuard XCSv have support of the virtual VMware vSphere platform of versions 4.1 and 5.0.

Certificate of Common Criteria EAL 4+

WatchGuard Technologies Inc company. announced in May, 2012 obtaining the certificate of Common Criteria EAL 4+ for a new line of the solutions WatchGuard XTM and XCS. The received certificate of Common Criteria EAL 4+ confirms compliance of devices to all requirements to security imposed by the largest government and commercial organizations worldwide. For confirmation of conformity to the Common Criteria standard of the solution WatchGuard passed the most intensive tests. The careful analysis of all functions of devices for confirmation that product characteristics completely correspond to those which were stated by the producer was made. Besides, the made assessment of weaknesses of solutions of WatchGuard did not reveal at them potential vulnerabilities.