Tag Archives: WatchGuard

Gateway AntiVirus

Email & WatchGuard Firewalls

With Malware often being hidden within Zip files as an attachment to an email as an attempt to avoid detection by mail security software, it is important to have a solution in place that can interrogate these compressed files and determine whether their content is malicious or not.

The Gateway AntiVirus subscription service on a WatchGuard security device provides one such solution as it can temporarily decompress email attachments before scanning them.

To enable this feature you will need to do the following:

  • Go into Policy Manager > Subscription Services > Gateway Antivirus and ensure that the Gateway AntiVirus service is enabled for your SMTP Proxy.
  • Click Settings… > Enable Decompression before saving & writing the configuration to the device.

Further detail and other best practices can be found in this article > http://tinyurl.com/q3fyyzc

Branch Office VPN (BOVPN)

Connections with WatchGuard XTM Devices

A Client has a central office (Site A) and a satellite office (Site B) in different geographical locations. Site A has network resources that the users in Site B need to access and vice-versa.

With a WatchGuard XTM device at the Gateway of each office’s network it is possible to create a permanent BOVPN connection and transparently share data between both sites securely, with data exchanges authenticated and encrypted through the use of IPsec.

Please see the following article covering the process from the data gathering stage through to implementation > http://tinyurl.com/ns6y7ud

Whilst the above article covers the configuration of WatchGuard devices the concept is vendor-agnostic. Use of the feature is determined by the capability of your Router hardware.