WatchGuard XCSv Small Office Series
Content Security for Web and Messaging Virtualization

Virtualizing Security for Today's Business Needs

The best-in-class anti-spam, anti-malware, and data loss prevention available in WatchGuard XCS have enabled organizations of all sizes to protect their valuable information, attain high levels of regulatory compliance, and safely define their relationship to the Internet. As many of these organizations have taken advantage of virtualization to reduce IT costs and increase agility, they have identified key applications to move to virtualized environments – and among the most frequent and most strategic choices are email and messaging infrastructure (including Microsoft Exchange) and web application platforms.

With WatchGuard XCSv, the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of virtualization can be leveraged to implement powerful content security. XCSv delivers all of the email security, web security, and data loss prevention capabilities of XCS in flexible packaging that lets organizations of all sizes take advantage of their investment in virtualization. WatchGuard's XCSv offers unmatched deployment flexibility. You can choose to deploy a mix of hardware and virtual appliances, managed from a common centralized management platform.

Integrate with messaging and application servers for stronger protection – private-network deployment

Among the most popular applications that organizations have chosen to implement within their virtual environments are messaging and web application servers; surveys of IT organizations consistently place Microsoft Exchange at or near the top of the list of virtualized services. Deploying XCSv virtual appliances within the same virtualized infrastructure allows content security on the same physical servers to be connected to the email and web servers using private networks, insulating all traffic from the public Internet. Combined with the flexibility of virtualized deployment and consolidated management, this approach yields cost savings while increasing security.

Consolidate multiple firewalls for high-impact efficiencies – multi-tenant protection

Service providers – hosting, cloud, or managed security services – can deploy multiple instances of XTMv on servers at the perimeter of their datacenters. These virtual firewalls are isolated from each other, so service level agreements (SLAs) can be guaranteed to each tenant, and a configuration change to one doesn't affect the others. And yet they can all be managed by the provider using a single intuitive console.

Consolidate multiple security appliances for custom security – multi-tenant protection

Service providers – email hosting, cloud, or managed security services – can deploy multiple instances of XCSv in virtualized environments on shared industry standard servers within their datacenters. These virtual content security appliances are isolated from each other, so service level agreements (SLAs) can be guaranteed to each tenant, and a configuration change to one doesn't affect the others. Most important, each of these instances can be configured independently for the industry-specific and user-specific needs of the customer, including the ability to learn spam detection information that takes into account those needs and the associated vocabulary. And yet the XCSv virtual appliances can all be managed by the provider using a single intuitive console.

Technical Specifications:

XCSv Model	Small Office	Medium Office	Large Office	Large Office XC
Platform
CPU cores	1	2	4	8
Network interfaces	2	3	4	4
Memory (min.)	2 GB	2 GB	4 GB	8 GB
Disk (min.)	64 GB	104 GB	184 GB	280 GB
Email users*	100	500	2000	5,000
Threat Protection
Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware
Blended Threat Prevention
Reputation Enabled Defense
Spam Dictionaries
Pattern-based Message Filters
Message Quarantine
Inbound Attachment Control
Web Security (subscription-based)
URL Filtering**
Cloud-based Web Reputation Services**
Uncategorized Web Content Filtering**
Acceptable Web Usage**
Web Application Control**
Web Traffic Enhancements**	Web caching / large file downloads with rapid scan / streaming media control / traffic management and clustering
Data Loss Prevention
Web Application Control**
Alarms and Notifications	SNMP v2/v3, Email, Management System Alert
Web Application Control**
Web Application Control**
Web Application Control**
Additional Capabilities	DLP Wizard / Outbound content and attachment scanning / outbound attachment control / document fingerprinting and data classification
Management & Reporting	Centralized management / archiving (third party) / user-based reporting / messaging logs / customizable granular policies, including time-based web access policies and IP-based policies / customizable granular reports
Redundancy	Message-level redundancy / on-demand clustering† / geographical redundancy / queue replication
Support	LiveSecurity® Plus with 24/7 technical support

Documentation:

Download the WatchGuard XCSv Series Datasheet (.PDF)