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Vantage Update 2.2.0.48 – New Loaders, Features and Fixes

Scott

We’ve just released an update to the Vantage range of application, including the Web Module.

This release will be welcomed with open arms by many customers for the following reasons:

  • General usability improvements in the Web Module
    Multi-select / delete options, Ajax progress indicators to avoid page refreshes, export from Dynamics Report tab and more (see below)
  • Fixes to the Microsoft Forefront TMG loader
    See my other post: Microsoft Forefront TMG logs size fields the wrong way around. Also fixed ‘value cannot be null’ error when importing SQL logs.
  • Fixes to storage corruption issues
    This build should prevent ‘Normalization Index’ storage corruption issues from occurring. This often occurred after importing data, editing some log inputs and reimporting.
  • New loaders and more fixes
    See below for the full list

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Posted by Scott Glew on July 29th, 2010

Microsoft Forefront TMG logs size fields the wrong way around

Scott

If you’re using Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, there is a bug in the logging that causes Bytes Sent and Bytes Received to be logged in reverse. This seems to only affect the Web Proxy logs – both SQL and W3c . We noticed in a few web reports, that people were generally uploading a lot more than they were downloading. So we checked the logs and verified the buggy behavior: Read more »

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Posted by Scott Glew on July 29th, 2010

Tips from TMG Expert: Changing WebSpy Vantage Scheduled Task Recurrence Interval

Asa

Microsoft ISA Server and Forefront TMG users are probably familiar with isaserver.org’s informative news articles, tutorials, blogs and forums. I just wanted to bring your attention to one of isaserver.org’s contributing blog authors, Richard Hicks.

Richard has been working with Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 and its predecessors for more than 12 years. He has designed and deployed network security solutions using TMG and ISA for SMB’s, military and defense organizations, and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

In addition to his isaserver.org blogs, Richard has his own ISA/TMG blog where he recently posted some useful tips on changing WebSpy Vantage’s scheduled task recurrence interval using the schtasks.exe command line tool. Adding more frequent import options (i.e. hourly) is on the product roadmap but until then, using the command line tool is a great alternative.
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Posted by Asa Davidsson on July 19th, 2010

Why there is so much anonymous traffic in Microsoft TMG and ISA logs

Scott


One of the most common questions we get asked by users of Microsoft TMG and ISA is why there is so much traffic attributed to the Anonymous user. Even though unauthenticated access to the web has been disabled, they still see the ‘Anonymous’ user as one of the top users in their reports.

So let’s use WebSpy Vantage to drill into that Anonymous user and find out what is going on. Read more »

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Posted by Scott Glew on July 19th, 2010

Security Threats Increase with Growth in Social Networking – Blocking still not the Answer

Asa

IT security firm Trend Micro recently released results from their latest study surveying 1,600 end-users in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. The study focused on employees’ use of corporate computers while on corporate LANs.

Trend Micro found that the use of social networking sites grew globally from 19% in 2008 to 24% in 2010.The fact that the use of social networks is growing, and will most likely continue to grow, probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but it is always interesting to attach real figures to this trend.

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Posted by Asa Davidsson on July 15th, 2010

Website Categorization – Assessing Productivity

Asa

Security and Threat Management solutions, such as Microsoft Forefront TMG, IronPort and Blue Coat, use predefined URL categorization to simplify blocking and filtering management. Different security vendors have different ways of categorizing websites but it generally involves referring to a gigantic, regularly updated database of millions of websites sorted into 50-100 relevant categories.

Majority of security vendors will give you a high level overview of the categories, such as Sports, Shopping, Online Community, Streaming Media, Employment and Gambling, but rarely provides intuitive ways to further investigate the traffic going to the sites within these categories. The nifty thing about WebSpy’s solutions is that, as long as categories are logged, you can use WebSpy to analyze web browsing in relation to these categories and get a much clearer overview of your organization’s web usage.

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Posted by Asa Davidsson on July 12th, 2010

WebSpy Soho – New Alpha Release

Asa

First of all, a big thank you to all our Alpha testers for downloading and trying out WebSpy Soho Alpha. We’re happy to let you know that we’ve just released an improved Alpha version with new fixes and updates.

The previous Soho Alpha version will stop working on the 30th of June 2010 – to continue testing you need to download the latest version.

If you haven’t downloaded WebSpy Soho Alpha before simply get the latest version and off you go. If you’re an Alpha tester you need to keep reading…

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Posted by Asa Davidsson on June 28th, 2010

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