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Cyberoam Releases New Features in Version 9.5.8 |
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Cyberoam has released its latest version of Identity-based UTM appliances, 9.5.8 on the 14th of November, 2008. It contains the following advanced features: |
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Threat Free Tunneling (TFT) technology for safe and clean traffic over the Internet. With more employees on the move, the need for remote network access or VPN solution is rapidly increasing in organizations committed to security of their networks through safe tunneling of data. |
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An enhanced identity-based security using User/MAC binding. The User/MAC binding binds a user to the computer, preventing unauthorized network access and loss of confidential data especially for Wi-fi networks. |
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An improved GUI interface with multilingual support including for Chinese and Hindi languages. These additional languages would allow customers in two of the biggest, emerging markets of the world to gain support access for Cyberoam products. |
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High Availability (HA) – Active-Active minimizes single point of failure and provides efficient and continuous access to business-critical applications, information and services. With session persistent load balancing and failover, this feature delivers high reliability and increased performance. |
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The version 9.5.8 comes with a rollback option on the CLI console which would allow users to revert back to previous version if upgrade is not successful or if problems occur during upgrade. |
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Customers can now immediately upgrade to the latest version release from Cyberoam website. For any support requirements, please visit http://www.cyberoam.com/contactsupport.html |
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Read the Press Release |
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Q3 email Threat Trends |
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The Q3 2008 email threat trend report, released by Cyberoam in collaboration with its partner Commtouch reveals the latest trends in spam techniques.
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They are hiding bad reputation through the use of valid or reputed mail servers, mainly web mail accounts. They are stealing legitimate email senders’ credentials, compromising email account enrollment processes and automatically registering thousands of free email accounts mainly by using algorithms to break CAPTCHAs which are meant to eliminate mass automated registrations. |
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Malware hidden in legitimate sites such as MSN and CNN is on the rise. |
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Spammers continue to use attractive content, like celebrities and doomsday announcements for greater effectiveness. |
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Spam with gruesome videos, exciting content, celebration days, love mails and celebrities make up for massive blended attacks, playing on user psychology and curiosity. |
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Read the complete Q3 2008 Email Threats Trend Report |
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Virus Threats - October 2008 |
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Trojans Lead at 50%, New Malware Appearance on the Rise |
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This month, Kaspersky’s Top Twenty includes almost all kinds of malware and potentially unwanted programs: there’s a script worm, a couple of adware programs and several Trojans of varying types. However, while the Trojans still form the largest chunk of malware they showed decline from 70% last month to this month’s figures at 50%. |
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Also, there is a clear rise in the number of new threats in comparison to September statistics. This month in October, the number of new malicious programmes detected were 39,240 – a rise of 4000 from last month. The “Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n”, a multimedia file, is placed on top of the rankings for this month while September’s leader, the Agent.cxv rootkit is no longer considered a serious threat. A cluster of three new entrants follow Wimad of which the epidemic caused by virus Sality.aa is reaching new levels and is now a cause of concern. Read More > |
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Axiom Telecom Chooses Cyberoam for Secure Connectivity |
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Axiom Telecom (Axiom) specializes in the distribution of mobile and wireless communication products such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, Samsung, LG, Palm and I-mate and has about 400 retail outlets across the Gulf region with more than 1000 employees & revenues approaching USD $1billion. |
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With such a huge IT and Network infrastructure, the company felt a pressing need of reforming employees' surfing habits, promoting positive responsible behavior, ensuring productive use of bandwidth and last but not the least, mitigating blended threats by deploying multi-tier gateway security. After exploring various products in the market, Axiom Telecom selected Cyberoam UTM as the best single appliance alternative. |
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Currently, they have deployed one Cyberoam 100i and eight Cyberoam 50i units at the network periphery and a Cyberoam Centralized Control (CCC) appliance to centrally manage all the Cyberoam appliances placed at various locations. In the next phase, Axiom plans to implement Virtual Private Network to connect its ERP applications to different locations using Cyberoam's VPN feature. Read More > |
