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WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today launched a new family of extensible content-security solutions specifically designed for small to medium-sized businesses. These new appliances fall under the umbrella of the WatchGuard XCS platform and provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, spyware and malware, as well as reliable, always-on email security and full-featured centralised management and reporting.“Small to medium-sized businesses stand at the crossroads of being the most at risk to an email-based threat, and yet, the most challenged to have state-of-the-art email and spam protection,” said Bryan Nairn, Senior Product Manager, WatchGuard Technologies. “Until now, these businesses had few options for spam and malware protection. With WatchGuard, they can have a no-compromise, fully featured messaging-protection solution at an affordable price point.”
The WatchGuard family of XCS appliances for SMBs consists of the WatchGuard XCS 170, the XCS 370 and the high-performance XCS 570 series. All of these appliances come complete with the WatchGuard email-security suite, which provides advanced protection against spam, phishing, viruses, malware and other forms of email-based threats. Additionally, they all sport advanced management and reporting capabilities – which include archiving, on-box reporting, messaging logs, customisable granular policies and reports, TLS encryption and message redundancy.
Furthermore, these WatchGuard XCS appliances can take advantage of WatchGuard’s innovative in-the-cloud security technology, ReputationAuthority. With 99.99 per cent accuracy, ReputationAuthority eliminates up to 98.3 per cent of spam email before it ever gets to a small business network by use of DNS blacklists, IP traffic volume, behaviour analysis and content inspection. Given that spam email is a major carrier of viruses, phishing attempts and blended threats, WatchGuard’s defence-in-depth architecture with ReputationAuthority, pre-screens and eliminates this unwanted traffic, better protecting business networks, applications and data.
For larger businesses with up to 1,000 users, WatchGuard offers the XCS 570 appliance, which provides advanced-messaging security for businesses that truly require enterprise-grade protection. For these customers, the WatchGuard XCS 570 provides bi-directional protection from internal and external threats, as well as data-loss prevention to keep confidential information from escaping out of organisation’s email boundaries. To keep email from ever being lost due to failures or other events, the XCS 570 provides queue replication – a first for a product at this price point. The XCS 570 also includes compliance dictionaries, content filtering, outbound-attachment control and scanning, outbound-content scanning, optional third-party email encryption, e-profiling, instant-on data-loss prevention, and clustering – all making the XCS 570 an unbeatable solution for small to mid-sized organisations.
Pricing and Availability
The WatchGuard XCS series of appliances will be available worldwide from WatchGuard channel partners within 30 days. More information is available at www.watchguard.com.
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