Product and Support News

WatchGuard has posted maintenance releases for Fireware 12.8.1, and earlier branches, 12.5.10 and 12.1.4.

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in June: Articles Configure a BOVPN virtual interface in Fireware v11.11.x that uses GRE for dynamic routing to a Cisco endpoint Geoblocking can block connections to...

Supported Operating Systems for WatchGuard System Manager (WSM) To determine when WatchGuard ends support for an operating system our applications run on, we follow the support lifecycle of the operating system vendor. This post provides detail on how Microsoft's lifecycle affects this policy. In...

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in May: Articles Supervised iOS Devices: Back up and Restore without Losing Data Video or voice calls disconnected while on wireless network Known Issues AuthPoint Logon...

Lack of password management is exposing companies to credentials theft. Our AuthPoint MFA helps to mitigate issues related to user authentication, and passwords are indeed one of those factors. They need to be protected as well. To help you and your customers protect passwords, we are launching...

We are happy to announce the WatchGuard Endpoint Security integration with N-able N-central! N-central is a Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution that streamlines and automates management and expands the user technology ecosystem across integrations that significantly reduce operational...

Ransomware was assessed as the prime threat in 2020-2021. Unfortunately, attacks are dramatically increasing in scope and frequency year over year, with high-impact, headline-making incidents continuously growing. With this release, we expand our prevention and response technologies in our Endpoint...

Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in April: Known Issues 10G SFP+ interfaces (eth8/eth9) on Firebox M590/M690 do not respond to traffic After upgrade to Fireware 12.8, IKEv2 BOVPNs that use VPN failover...

Deprecation of older WatchGuard Server components WatchGuard is announcing the deprecation of some older server components. WSM v12.8.x releases will still include these server components. Higher WSM releases, v12.9 and later, will include only the WSM Client and Management Server, and will not...

Key points: WatchGuard has posted a new maintenance update for Fireware v12.8. Update 1 includes several issues that have been fixed since the original 12.8 release. It also includes an update to the OpenSSL version to address CVE-2022-0778. See details in the Release Notes. Does this release affect...