Migrating to WatchGuard XCS software expands the security capabilities of your BorderWare Security Platform by adding many new features. It also ensures that you receive regular software and maintenance updates to extend the life of your product.
Before submitting your registration request, please review the following terms and conditions:
- WatchGuard reserves the right to qualify each request for migration received.
- You will receive your new serial number, feature key and/or notice of qualification for the migration approximately one week from receipt of your migration request.
- You must have valid hardware (your appliance does not require a hardware refresh and the appliance model is not End of Life) and a valid support contract.
- You must be running version 7.1 or higher of the BorderWare software in order to migrate to XCS software.
- Once you migrate, you will be renewing with XCS SKUs going forward.
If you agree with the above terms and conditions, please register below. If you have additional questions about this process, contact WatchGuard BorderWare support at support@borderware.com.
Register for Migration
Note:
You must complete ONE registration page for each appliance you wish to migrate to XCS.
New Features Included With XCS
- ReputationAuthority now includes web reputation capabilities to block web-based threats at the connection-level for faster, safer web browsing
- Enhanced anti-virus scanning capacity for email and web is 2 to 3 times faster than previous versions
- Significant email and web performance improvements - now more than 100% faster
- Time-based web access policies have granular controls for compliance and acceptable use
- IP address-based policies have ability to set SMTP or HTTP policies based on the source address
- User-based reporting gives greater visibility into user web activity for acceptable use and policy enforcement
- Enhanced web dashboard allows greater visibility into web usage and policy violations
- Improved Setup Wizard means easier deployment, and simpler, more effective out-of-the-box product initialization
- Email message history search functionality for non-Latin based languages includes Japanese, Chinese, Greek, and other delimited languages
- Enhanced attachment control provides stronger detection
- Analysis improvements delivers superior detection of latest spamming techniques
- Stronger protection from incoming spam and threats delivered via attachments
- Greater control from data loss with ability to disable low-grade TLS encryption (less than 128 bit)
- Email Encryption subscription controls can disable unencrypted messages to prevent them from being distributed by recipient
- Enhanced reporting includes rejected connection details, with a new option to expire reports to free disk space
- Increased privacy settings within tiered administration
- More frequent anti-spam updates