what’s new in watchguard xcs v9.1 update 1. watchguard xcs v9.1 update 1 enhancements that...

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

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• Yellow (Attention) or Red (Urgent) means a service cannot be contacted or Anti-Virus definitions are out-of-date

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• 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• Yellow (Attention) or Red (Urgent) means a service cannot be contacted or Anti-Virus/URL category definitions are out-of-date




• New Dashboard items Mail Summary > Mail Resources

• New graph of mail activity trends


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)


Click to expand or collapse each item


• System Summary Dashboard page (continued) System Activity (CPU Load, Swap Space) Servers (DNS and NTP server status)



• 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


9.1 Update 1Activity > Status > Utilities



• 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 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



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



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



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



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



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



Configure Intercept Settings Automatically (continued)• Disabled by default and configured in Security > Anti-Spam > Anti-Spam, or

Security > Anti-Spam > Intercept Settings



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

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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


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


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


Install XCS v9.1 Update 1Install XCS v9.1 Update 1

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



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


Click to download


Upload the software update in Administration > Software Updates > Updates

• Click Browse to find the downloaded file on your computer

• Click Upload



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!


Thank You!Thank You!

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