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Vantage Video Series: #6 Registration

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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

This video covers registering Vantage and the Web Module.


Vantage Video Series: #5 Organization Setup

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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

This video will cover the Organization section of the software, showing you how to import your users and groups from Active Directory / LDAP.


Vantage Video Series: #4 Profiles & Site Categorization

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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

This video follows on from #3, and will cover the Profiles section of the software, and how to use site categorization.


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…)


5 Top Tips for Safer Social Networking

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Majority of our social networking tips and ‘How to’ articles are aimed at organizations managing and reporting on network traffic to improve online safety at work.

This time around I thought I share some tips focusing on how individuals can ensure they’re being smart and safe when engaging in social networking activities. Hopefully these tips can assist you, or the people working in your organization, in avoiding being exposed to the dark side of social networking where hackers, identity thieves, fraudsters and stalkers are lurking in the shadows.

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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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