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Archive for the ‘Vantage’ Category

Vantage Video Series: #1 Overview

Monday, April 4th, 2011

This is the first of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail.

This video is a high level overview, giving you a general insight into the software and its different parts.


Running Multiple Instances of Vantage

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

In the latest Vantage auto-update (2.2.0.68), we’ve included an experimental feature to allow multiple instances of WebSpy Vantage to run on the same operating system. The goal here is to run reports at the same time using multiple instances of the application. To do this, we have also include a second experimental feature to disable storage locking. This allows multiple instances of Vantage to read from the same storage at once. (more…)


Vantage Update 2.2.0.68 (Exchange 2010, Juniper and IronPort Traffic Logs, and more)

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

We have released an automatic update for the Vantage range of applications. This update includes some new loader formats, an experimental feature as well minor fixes and improvements.

Of note, this release includes full support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 Tracking logs (previously supported with the Exchange 2007 loader, but missing a few fields), as well as JunOS (Juniper) Traffic Logs, IronPort Traffic Monitor Logs and Squid Syslog. (more…)


Creating and Analyzing SonicWALL Log Files

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

I’ve put together a couple of quick videos to show you how to configure logging on your SonicWALL appliance, and how to import and analyze these log files in WebSpy Vantage.

You can also read through these steps on this page: Analyzing SonicWALL log files with WebSpy.

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Detecting a distributed reflected DNS attack

Friday, December 10th, 2010

The other night as I was getting ready to sleep, I received an email from the host of my personal Linux VPS saying that I had exceeded my monthly transfer quota. I didn’t pay much mind to the warning, as the excess transfer was insignificant, and at that time I was too tired to care. I closed my email, got into bed and fell asleep.

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Reporting on Astaro Security Gateway

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Astaro Security Gateway devices are capable of producing some very detailed log files including full URLs, usernames, categories, block action and reason which gives you some great reporting options in WebSpy Vantage.

Take a look at our dedicated Astaro pages to get an idea of what can be achieved when analyzing Astaro Web Gateway log files with WebSpy Vantage.

I’ve created some quick videos to show you how to enable the correct logging options on the Astaro Security Gateway appliance, how to import these log files into Vantage, and analyze the data on the Summaries screen. (more…)


Watch Latest Webinar – Web 2.0 in the Workplace today

Friday, December 10th, 2010

In light of Clearswift’s (network security vendor and WebSpy technology partner) latest research report, Web 2.0 in the Workplace Today, WebSpy and Clearswift will host a series of webinars aimed at the channel.

Even though the webinars are channel focused I thought I’d share the most recent one with all of you. It includes very interesting product demos from Mark Maciw, product manager at Clearswift, and Scott Glew, Product Operations Manager at WebSpy. By seeing the products in action you’ll get a greater understanding of their capabilities and complementing aspects and hopefully learn how to:

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