February 23, 2022 – The CSIA, National Security Agency, and FBI released a Joint Cyber Security Announcement today indicating that Cyclops Blink has been deployed to WatchGuard protected devices. This particularly insidious malware is thought to emanate from Sandworm, also known as Voodoo Bear, and said to originate from the Russian Main Center for Special Technologies.
A common question that we have been receiving from clients and students alike is the difference between a cloud-managed Firebox, and a locally-managed Firebox with WatchGuard Cloud enabled. Ultimately, these two Firebox types are completely different; their only similarity is that they can both access report & log data through WatchGuard Cloud.
WatchGuard now supports Remote Access Points! This method of configuration allows for quick deployments of multiple RAP’s using the WatchGuard Cloud Access Point Sites that store configuration settings. The infrastructure requirements for this implementation are WatchGuard Cloud supported access point models, and a Cloud Managed Firebox.
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