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What’s New in WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1. WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use New Dashboard items  Mail Summary >

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1 What’s New in WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1

2 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use New Dashboard items  Mail Summary > Mail Security Indicates status of each mail security service Security Connection, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Reputation Enabled Defense (also displays Brightmail and McAfee if licensed) Yellow (Attention) or Red (Urgent) means a service cannot be contacted or Anti-Virus definitions are out-of-date WatchGuard Training 2

3 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use New Dashboard items  Web Summary > Web Traffic > Web Security Indicates status of each web security service Security Connection, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Reputation Enabled Defense, and URL Categorization) Yellow (Attention) or Red (Urgent) means a service cannot be contacted or Anti-Virus/URL category definitions are out-of-date WatchGuard Training 3

4 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use New Dashboard items  Mail Summary > Mail Resources New graph of mail activity trends WatchGuard Training 4

5 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use New Dashboard items System Summary information originally located on the Status & Utility page is now incorporated into the Dashboard  System (Version, Uptime, Licensee, Admin & WebMail Users)  Hardware (Appliance model, CPU, Memory, Disk Usage, RAID Status, Swap Space) WatchGuard Training 5 Click to expand or collapse each item

6 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1 System Summary Dashboard page (continued)  System Activity (CPU Load, Swap Space)  Servers (DNS and NTP server status) WatchGuard Training 6

7 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1 Status & Utility Menu change  Activity > Status > Status & Utility is now Activity > Status > Utilities  System status and configuration info moved to the Dashboard  Contains messaging controls and diagnostics WatchGuard Training 7 9.1 Update 1 Activity > Status > Utilities

8 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use Anti-Spam page  Accessed through Security > Anti-Spam > Anti-Spam  You can more efficiently manage your Anti-Spam settings  The initial view provides access to the most common Anti-Spam options available for configuration  To view advanced Intercept settings, click the Show Advanced Options link WatchGuard Training 8

9 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1 WatchGuard Training 9

10 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use Pattern Filters page  Improved to help you efficiently create and manage large lists of Pattern Filters  Pattern Filter lists are paginated  You can now sort the list of Pattern Filters and use search parameters to filter the list display WatchGuard Training 10

11 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Enhancements that improve ease of use  The Pattern Filters Preferences page has been moved to Security > Content Control > Custom Actions to allow you to create custom actions for the Pattern Filters and Content Rules features WatchGuard Training 11

12 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Additional functionality to make an already significant XCS solution even more powerful Improved Anti-Spam Analysis and Training  Token Analysis feature enhanced to protect against new spam obfuscation techniques and improve spam training  Improved tokenization of URLs for the URL Block List feature  Improved tokenization of HTML messages to prevent the generation of tokens for non-visible elements of a message WatchGuard Training 12

13 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  RTF Spam Analysis Scans and analyzes RTF (Rich Text Format) attachments for characteristics of spam Enabled by default in Security > Anti-Spam > Token Analysis > Advanced WatchGuard Training 13

14 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Reputation Whitelist Advanced Token Analysis training feature Provides additional legitimate mail training based on Reputation Enabled Defense whitelists of hosts that are known to send legitimate mail Enabled by default in Security > Anti-Spam > Token Analysis > Advanced WatchGuard Training 14

15 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Configure Advanced Intercept Settings Automatically Allows WatchGuard to automatically configure advanced Intercept settings (requires Security Connection) Automatically configures these advanced settings:  Intercept Component Weights  Reputation/UBL/DNSBL domains and timeout settings  Advanced Token Analysis options Enable Image Analysis Enable PDF Analysis Analyze PDF text Analyze PDF images Enable RTF Analysis Legitimate mail and Spam training sources Legitimate mail and Spam limits and thresholds Dictionary spam count Reputation Whitelist WatchGuard Training 15

16 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Configure Intercept Settings Automatically (continued) Disabled by default and configured in Security > Anti-Spam > Anti-Spam, or Security > Anti-Spam > Intercept Settings WatchGuard Training 16

17 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Additional XCS v9.1 Update 1 enhancements Reputation Classification Statistics in Web Analysis Report  The Web Analysis report now includes a section for Reputation Enabled Defense (RED) Traffic Classification  Indicates the number of web sites with good, neutral, and bad reputations 17 WatchGuard Training

18 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Additional XCS v9.1 Update 1 enhancements Web Reputation Lookup Moved  The Web Reputation Lookup utility has been moved from the Web Reputation page to the Utilities page located in Activity > Status > Utilities.  Use the Web Reputation Lookup utility to examine the reputation score of specific web domains.  Only appears if Web Reputation is enabled 18 WatchGuard Training

19 WatchGuard XCS v9.1 Update 1  Additional XCS v9.1 Update 1 enhancements Deferred Mail Queue Monitoring  Allows you to set a threshold for monitoring the deferred mail queue and generate a critical alarm if the threshold is exceeded  Configured on the Configuration > Mail > Access page Alarms for Incoming Mail Queue Monitoring  New system alarms alert you of minor (warning), medium (serious), and significant (critical) Queue Monitoring events  Incoming Mail Queue Monitoring is configured on the Configuration > Mail > Access page and allows you to adjust the processing behavior on incoming mail connections depending on the current state of the incoming mail queue 19 WatchGuard Training

20 Introducing WatchGuard XCS v9.1  Additional XCS v9.1 Update 1 enhancements Symantec Brightmail™ Anti-Spam Upgrade  Upgraded to version 6.2 to provide improved protection against the latest types of spam messages  Brightmail is an add-on subscription for customers who want to enable multi-layered Anti-Spam engines  Brightmail configuration options do not appear on the WatchGuard XCS menu unless it is licensed McAfee® Anti-Virus Option Patch  The McAfee Anti-Virus option no longer requires an installation patch  McAfee Anti-Virus is an add-on subscription for customers who want to enable multi-layered Anti-Virus protection  McAfee configuration options do not appear on the Anti-Virus page unless it is licensed WatchGuard Training 20

21 Install XCS v9.1 Update 1

22  If enabled, Security Connection automatically downloads update releases Install the update in Administration > Software Updates > Updates The update appears in the Available Updates section Select the update, then click Install The device restarts This process can take up to 10 minutes to complete! Install XCS v9.1 Update 1 WatchGuard Training 22

23 Install XCS v9.1 Update 1  You can also download the update software from the LiveSecurity site From the Software Downloads page, download the XCS v9.1 Update 1 software [xcs91_update1.pf] to your local computer WatchGuard Training 23 Click to download

24 Install XCS v9.1 Update 1  Upload the software update in Administration > Software Updates > Updates Click Browse to find the downloaded file on your computer Click Upload WatchGuard Training 24

25 Install XCS v9.1 Update 1  The update appears in the Available Updates section  Select the update, then click Install  The device restarts This process can take up to 10 minutes to complete! WatchGuard Training 25

26 Thank You!


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