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What should I do with this Watchguard Firebox 500? I don’t have the system manager for it…

Ingram87 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:16:06 +0000

I was given a Watchguard Firebox 500 today. The model number is F2064N. Apperantly, you need the Firebox System Manager application to manage these devices, which is only available if you have the device actiavated on your watchguard account. Unfortunately, I don’t have that.

Should I destroy it with a chainsaw, or is there some type of open source software I can load onto this? dd-wrt came to mind at first, however, it doesn’t support this device.

Pros & cons of SaaS security solutions?

TeachMeIT — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:04:18 +0000

Do you have any suggestions or experience with SaaS for web security solutions? Pros & cons? What considerations should we make before shopping for this sort of solution?

Internet security and social networking

Richbiz — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:51:32 +0000

What network solution today in the market can block a phishing attack coming from social networking Facebook?

i.e. from Facebook, someone who “appears” to be a friend posts a phishing link via a message.

A typical web security solution, i.e. web reputation filtering, seems only blocking phishing websites based on their reputation.

I am thinking this would work if the solution scans the HTTP content in real-time. During the scan, it identifies a phishing link and block the HTTP sessions.

Or other solution? is this type of solution available from a vendor? Symantac, ScanSafe, or?

thanks
Richbiz

SSO on the web, 2-factor security

Justgottabeaway — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:31:15 +0000

Looking for a secure authentication and authorization process on WWW – to include federated logon to multiple pages (single sign on behavior) with more security than uid/pwd access – but without issuing a physical device (“something you have”)? Some websites are copperating partners – others are owned by the customer.

internet blocking software on windows server 2003

Syntech — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:08:57 +0000

What is the best free software to block certains xp clients with windows 2003 server

URL Filtering

Obnetadmin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:16:42 +0000

I’m a network admin for a K-12 district in New Jersey. I was wondering what some other districts across the US are using for a URL/Content filter solution. We currently have Websense 5.5 running onbox with a Cisco Content Engine and are looking at other alternatives.