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Reputation Enabled Defense (RED) 



What if you could have stronger security and faster web performance without having to add a whole new box? With Reputation Enabled Defense, you can. WatchGuard is the only UTM solution on the market that Reputation Enabled Defenseoffers web reputation defense as a fully integrated security subscription for all WatchGuard XTM appliances, protecting web users from malicious web pages while dramatically reducing web processing overhead.  

For WatchGuard XTM 2 Series, 5 Series, 8 Series or XTM 1050 devices, you can benefit from Reputation Enabled Defense (RED) security to increase the performance and enhance the security of your XTM device.

WatchGuard RED uses a cloud-based WatchGuard reputation server that assigns a reputation score between 1 and 100 to every URL. When a user goes to a web site, RED sends the requested web address (or URL) to the WatchGuard reputation server. The WatchGuard server responds with a reputation score for that URL. Based on the reputation score, and on locally configured thresholds, RED determines whether the XTM device should drop the traffic, allow the traffic and scan it locally with Gateway AV, or allow the traffic without a local Gateway AV scan. This increases performance, because Gateway AV does not need to scan URLs with a known good or bad reputation.

Download further information on Reputation Enabled Defense here.
  • Next-Generation Web Reputation
    Relies on a powerful, cloud-based web reputation service that aggregates data from multiple feeds, including industry-leading anti-virus engines, for real-time protection from web threats.

  • Alleviates AV Processing
    Traffic to URLs with a bad reputation will be blocked immediately, freeing up your box to do more important tasks instead of constant AV scanning. Tests show a reduction of up to 50% in antivirus processing.

  • Flexible Management
    IT administrators use one interface to manage this subscription along with all other WatchGuard XTM security services. Reputation Enabled Defense can be managed with either the intuitive centralized console or the handy web UI for maximum flexibility.

Reputation Enabled Defense (RED) Diagram

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