Product and Support News

We are excited to announce that Threat Detection and Response has a new feature to Beta test!

Ransomware authors are getting smarter and bolder. Every day they find new ways to avoid detection and steal data. TDR already protects your endpoints from devastating ransomware attacks. As ransomware attacks evolve, we must improve our ability to stop them with faster detection through machine learning.

Machine Learning for Host Ransomware Prevention

In 2018, we enhanced TDR's Detection and Response (D&R) engine with machine learning. This significantly increased our general indicator detection rate...

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in January:

Articles

• macOS High Sierra requires kernel extension for Mobile VPN with IPSec client
• Troubleshoot Signature Delivery

Known Issues

• Mobile VPN with SSL on macOS cannot connect when non-ASCII characters in passphrase
• Geolocation misidentifies some Google.com IP addresses
• TDR Host Sensor might cause OS crashes in Scale Computing HyperCore environments
• Gateway Wireless Controller fails to manage AP120 and AP320 after upgrade to 8.8.1-101
• Gateway AntiVirus...

Hello WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Users,

WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Launchpad services will be updated starting on Monday, February 3, 2020 for required maintenance.
 
When:

Analyze
EMEA region: Monday, February 3, 2020 (12:00AM – 6:00AM GMT)
AMER region: Monday, February 3, 2020 (12:00AM – 6:00AM PST)
APAC region: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 (12:00AM – 6:00AM HKT)

Engage
All regions: Monday, February 3, 2020 (12:00AM – 6:00AM PST)
 

Maintenance Window: 6 hours

Duration: 4 hours

User Impact:

• Analyze and Engage services will be unavailable during the maintenance activity.
• Captive portal splash pages will...

Thank you everyone who spent the extra time out of their busy schedules to provide their feedback on our Basic Wi-Fi package changes that occurred in 2019.  Your effort, input, and passionate statements are very valuable and truly help the Wi-Fi team at WatchGuard weigh our decisions.  So please, keep it coming.  This post is to inform you of a recent change to Basic Wi-Fi packages directly influenced by your feedback.  

WatchGuard’s Access Point (AP) product line includes a high-quality family of AP hardware platforms and a choice of three different packages.  Each package uniquely addresses...

New features and functionalities are being revealed with our AuthPoint Beta Program. Check out some of those:

• AuthPoint Authentication APIs Beta ended and is now publicly available, and for no additional cost in your AuthPoint license! See how easy it is to integrate AuthPoint’s MFA technology with your web portal or home applications

• AuthPoint Agent for MacOS v1.7 Beta started this week, and it now supports Catalina. Check it out!

• AuthPoint Agent for Windows Beta is getting a new refresh in the next few days. It provides easier distribution and optional login without MFA for defined users

• Azu...

We are pleased to announce the availability of WatchGuard Dimension 2.1.2 Update 3. This maintenance release is now available from the Software Download Center, together with release notes and update instructions. WatchGuard Dimension 2.1.2 Update 3 provides the following fixes:

General

• Dimension now supports PostgreSQL versions up to v10.8.
• This release resolves a PCI compliance failure due to behavior of HTTP redirect to HTTPS connection feature.
• Quick Setup Wizard no longer stalls on administrator passphrase step on Hyper-V.
• This release improves performance with multiple connected devices....

Hello WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Users,

WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Launchpad services will be updated starting on Friday, January 10, 2020 for required maintenance.

When: All regions: Friday, January 10, 2020 (12:00AM – 04:00AM PST)

Maintenance Window: 4 Hours

Duration: 2 Hours

User Impact:

Wi-Fi Cloud management services will be inaccessible during the maintenance activity and you will be unable to log in to the Wi-Fi Cloud Launchpad Dashboard.

There is no impact to customer Wi-Fi service. Access Points will still be functional and provide connectivity and security.

Captive portal splash pages will...

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in December:

Articles

• Firebox diagnostic log messages not visible in WatchGuard Cloud
• WatchGuard support must confirm that callers are authorized before providing support
• DNSWatch cannot resolve a specific domain

Known Issues

• DNSWatch - Content Filter Policies and Dynamic IP Addresses
• Reverse Proxy fails with blank page displayed for some applications
• AP devices stuck in reboot loop with RS232 converter in network
• Install error for AD Helper for TDR
• AuthPoint LDAP...

WatchGuard has posted Fireware 12.5.2 Update 1 in the Software Download Center. This update introduces several key bug fixes, as well as initial support for management of Firebox system tasks directly from WatchGuard Cloud. Full details are provided in the Release Notes, which are available here.  Update 1 was released on December 23 to address an issue in environments with asymmetric routing. More details are about the issue are available in our knowledge base article.

Key Updates of This Release:

    - Updated versions of SSL and IPSec VPN clients, SSO client support for macOS Catalina

    -...

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in November:

Articles

• Migrate from Datablink Management Server to AuthPoint
• Resolved TDR False Positive for GoogleUpdateSetup.exe

Known Issues

• Firebox Cloud does not correctly handle overlapping static routes
• Reduced range on AP120, AP320, and AP322 devices
• Cannot edit SD-WAN actions in Policy Manager > Policy Configuration
• Instagram social media authentication fails with iOS versions 11.12.1 or lower
• System hash and Evtlog hash do not always match between...