Jigsaw Security is now available in a complete cloud option. Click here to read the terms and signup for a free no obligation 30 day trial. This new offering allows you to run Jigsaw Security's FirstWatch sensor in AWS, Azure or Vultr. We spin up the sensor and all you have to do to take advantage of our security is to change your DNS servers to point to your own dedicated instance of the Jigsaw FirstWatch cloud sensor. Customers receive their own web portal to monitor when w

The Jigsaw FirstWatch sensor has been successfully implemented in over 20 businesses in the last year. Based on our data and request from customers we have been working on some improved detection methods for the sensor platform. Today Jigsaw Security released two new modules with the first being a PowerShell library to detect bad activity and a new Malicious strings library to detect malicious activity and lateral movement on networks. The libraries are a set of instructions

It seems as if Russia is highly interested in the information we post on our blog. They are also seemingly interested in attacking your routers. After recent VPNFilter attacks, we have now witnessed Russia joining in on the action. As of 1:38AM EST, we have observed several sites see activity from 185.94.111[.]1 which was have not seen before. It seems as though Russia is working on automating their attacks. We have sinkholed the activity on our customers and thought we might

Jigsaw Security has updated our FirstWatch DNS security appliance to provide new capabilities in detection. Here are the new features: Mass Scan Automated Sinkholing Non Existent Domain Tracking TOR Attack Mitigation Phishing Email Automated Blocking Suspicious Domain Lookup Detection Proxy Scanning Detection HTTP Parsing Module Web Panel Detection Automated Sensor to TAXII server integration Port Scan Mitigation Data Leakage Detection Suspicious Bandwidth Usage Monitoring -

Every day we see phishing activity at our customer sites (on our sensor reports) and at Jigsaw Security. These messages typically are themed with PayPal, Microsoft or some other large company. What is surprising is that many of the messages claim to be from Microsoft, but the links in the messages are to third parties that are either trying to infect you with malware or to confirm receipt so they can send you even more unwanted advertisements. The Jigsaw Security FirstWatch s

Jigsaw Security has made available a virtualized community edition of our sensor that detects threats. This version will not stop attacks (You'll need the licensed version for that) but it will alert you to attackers on your network and act as a DNS server for your LAN. The sensor is per-configured to detect threats and alert you as an administrator. The username for the sensor web interface is "demo" with "demo" as the password and "jigsaw" with a password of "firstwatch" fo

Jigsaw Security has been shipping the FirstWatch sensor since 2017 and has worked to improve the capabilities of the software stack. During this time we have integrated our threat intelligence feeds, heuristics detection and several other data monitoring capabilities that have farther improved the product. The latest version of our software can be deployed without disruption or modification to anything other than your DNS server addresses. The solution can be deployed on virt

Jigsaw Security today has released our newest security protection product that is specifically designed to prevent email based attacks such as Phishing and nuisance campaigns such as Locky and Cerber ransomware. The new version of FirstWatch is specifically geared to run with your existing email platform to prevent attacks even when phishing emails make it to the end users mailbox. The new sensor combines our already existing user interface, threat intelligence feed, DNS sink

Jigsaw Platform now supports Cloudera Hadoop The Jigsaw R&D Team has finished building out a new installer for the Jigsaw Enterprise Platform that now supports Cloudera Hadoop. The new capability enables Jigsaw customers to offload indexes directly into Hadoop for archival purposes. "With the requirements of some industries requiring years of retention, this new capability goes a long way toward meeting compliance requirements and retention" said Kevin Wetzel, CEO of Jigsaw S

The Jigsaw Security development team has been hard at work to release our latest security offering known as FirstWatch. The sensor product p