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Safetica ONE 10.2 Released: Improved OCR, UX, Updates for Large Environments

OCR language support

  • Secondary language support relevant to countries with special characters and non-Latin character sets (e.g. Chinese customers should set primary language to Chinese AND secondary language to English).

  • New OCR languages added: Lithuanian and Ukrainian.

Improved user experience for forced reboots

  • New endpoint notification informs users about the need for forced reboot.

  • Pre-reboot time limit increased to 5 minutes.

Optimized endpoint updates for large environments 

  • When updating, endpoints are now assigned an order number and will update when it’s their turn to load-balance update requests (already available for the 10.2 update).

  • New technology used for component downloading to ensure that connection is established properly.

Device Control no longer negatively affects peripherals

  • Device Control now ignores non-mass storage devices.

  • Bluetooth setting in Device Control can be configured separately for devices that support file transfer.

Network integration limited to critical apps

  • Simplified network integration which merges network integration and SSL inspection. This limits where our network layer is integrated and lowers the chance of technical issues.

  • Integration is from now on set to the “Compatibility” mode by default. Other modes were removed.

Configuration of multiple SharePoint instances 

  • Added support for different configurations for individual SharePoint instances.

Other changes

  • Only 64-bit operating systems are supported for Safetica Management Service, Safetica Management Console, and WebSafetica.

  • DLP policy names are included in email and SIEM alerts to help with filtering syslogs.

  • Improved memory consumption of WebSafetica reports.

  • Bug fixes for Shadow Copy.

  • Bug fixes for integration with the latest version of FortiGate.


You can find more details about new features in Safetica ONE > Dashboard or our Knowledge Base.   

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Safetica
Safetica is to provide small and mid-sized companies with the same quality data protection that corporations have – affordably, and without any additional IT administration or disruptions in operation.

Safetica awarded 5 badges in the G2 Spring 2022 Reports

We are excited to announce that Safetica received 5 badges in the G2 Spring 2022 Reports. G2 is a platform where customers can review the software they have been using and share their feedback with other potential users to help them to choose the perfect solution for their business.

Safetica was awarded the following Spring 2022 badges

  • Best Meets Requirements
  • Easiest To Use
  • High Performer
  • Users Most Likely to Recommend
  • Best Support







What our users shared on G2

  • “Great product, professional approach and support.”
  • “Safetica – user friendly and very comprehensive.”
  • “One of the best cost effective DLP solutions on the market.”
  • “Simple implementation, high benefits.”

Read more about our G2 profile.

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About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Safetica
Safetica is to provide small and mid-sized companies with the same quality data protection that corporations have – affordably, and without any additional IT administration or disruptions in operation.

Why You Should be Leveraging Nmap for Network Endpoint Security

We have all been there. We are at a new place with new devices and the previous person did not keep good records. Now we’re being asked to secure the network without losing current functionality. Allow the good devices and block the bad, or at least put the bad on the guest network. So, what are all the devices on the network?

Some of the devices will be easy to identify and others not so much. An invaluable free tool to help you get started is Nmap (https://nmap.org/) . This tool helps you do a quick scan of your network to help find out how much you know and how much you don’t know.

How Nmap Enables Endpoint Visibility

You can run Nmap from the shell prompt, among the myriad of other command line options, but an easier way to get started is to use the Zenmap tool that has a UI to help you navigate your initial discovery.

One helpful feature of both the Nmap command line tool and Zenmap is the ability to output the results as XML. This output then allows you to use additional data parsing techniques to dig further into your data and look for patterns that can help you identify various devices with some detective work.

Nmap does a great job at identifying certain devices, but it’s not a comprehensive resource for all IoT devices in the market. Most of the time, you can identify the laptops, servers, and networking devices in your network, but not the mass of IoT devices people carry around or use in modern offices. TVs, projectors, lightbulbs, phones, and other harder to identify devices need to be properly identified especially as you strive to not interrupt business as usual.

Getting Started With Nmap

Let’s work through a small example on how to use the results from Nmap to help identify groups of devices on your network to help you determine network security rules for applications like your Network Access Control (NAC) software.

First, we will install Zenmap to help us through our process. The latest instructions can be found here: https://nmap.org/zenmap/

Running a Scan on Your Network

After installation, we select to run an intense scan on a subnet of our network. In this case the 192.168.1.X part of our network by specifying the proper CIDR notation.

The UI shows you the resulting command line from your profile selection should you choose to use the command line in future scripts. Look here for formatting your output to your desired format. For this example, we will be using the -oX option from Zenmap which allows us to look at and search the XML.

Examining Your Scan Results

Running this scan on a network you have access to might yield a typical IoT set of results.

As you can see there are many devices that are identified as Linux OS and unknown OS. Also, there is the easily identified Windows OS which is one of the laptops on the network, and many MacOS devices which include the Macbooks, iPhones, Apple watches, and other devices that attach to the network.

Classifying Unknown IoT Devices

Since many IoT devices use a base Linux OS, let’s see if we can find a pattern to help classify a larger subset of these unknown devices.

By selecting a device from our list, we can find some good details about what the device might be. Selecting the “Port/Hosts” and “Host Details” tabs we get some insightful data into the identity of this device.

Host Details (Enlarge)

Ports/Hosts (Enlarge)

Already we see that one of the ports is associated with Amazon devices. There is one more hint in the XML output which can be obtained from the menu selection Scan -> Save Scan and opening the XML in Visual Studio Code.

Here we can see that the MAC vendor (the manufacturer of the network access card) is also Amazon Technologies. MAC vendors are identifiable from the first three bytes of the MAC address and searchable from such online sources as https://standardsoui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

Filtering Out Devices From Results

With these hints we can start to look at our network with the lens of filtering out all Amazon devices like Alexa Echo Dots and Fire TV sticks.

A short PowerShell script run on the XML output yields the results that follow:

Or even better, you can use this script to get the IP addresses of those same devices, although you will still want the MAC addresses for NAC and other purposes.

This tells us that we likely have 8 devices on our network from Amazon and I could start to scan our larger network looking for IP addresses for MAC addresses belonging to Amazon and classifying those devices. Our network is one step closer to being secure.

Use Nmap to kickstart your network detective work and get your network more secure by knowing what devices are out there.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Portnox
Portnox provides simple-to-deploy, operate and maintain network access control, security and visibility solutions. Portnox software can be deployed on-premises, as a cloud-delivered service, or in hybrid mode. It is agentless and vendor-agnostic, allowing organizations to maximize their existing network and cybersecurity investments. Hundreds of enterprises around the world rely on Portnox for network visibility, cybersecurity policy enforcement and regulatory compliance. The company has been recognized for its innovations by Info Security Products Guide, Cyber Security Excellence Awards, IoT Innovator Awards, Computing Security Awards, Best of Interop ITX and Cyber Defense Magazine. Portnox has offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. For information visit http://www.portnox.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.。

Cyber Insurance – Why your company should consider it

Hiring insurance is nothing more than a risk management strategy. In this case, the organization transfers the responsibility in the event of an unexpected event to a third party (in this case, the insurance company). And with the increase in security incidents and data breaches, insurance companies have developed a new product to help organizations reduce the risk of cyberattacks: cyber insurance.

In this case, by hiring cyber-attack insurance, the organization transfers the obligations related to the costs they would have to pay in the event of a security incident to the insurance company. Typically, these costs are associated with recovering stolen data, paying ransomware ransoms, property damage, and even image recovery. But what factors influence the growing demand of companies for cyber insurance?

The first of these is the increase in connected devices. With the development of technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0, the number of devices connected to the infrastructure has skyrocketed. According to Zurich Insurance, the number of connected devices in 2020 has surpassed 50 billion, an increase of 19% compared to 2019. And this number is expected to grow even more in the next few years.

Moreover, the amount of data generated by these devices has increased exponentially. According to Ace Group, the volume of online data doubles every two years. And in times when data is the new oil, protecting an organization’s data (in addition to the personal data of employees, partners, and suppliers) is not about just complying with security policies and personal data protection laws such as LGPD, GDPR, CCPA, and the Texas Privacy Act, it is about ensuring business continuity.

Another factor that influences the increase of cyber risks and contributes to an increase in the demand for cyber insurance is the migration to remote work, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. Bring Your Own Device, shadow IT, and the use of insecure networks considerably increase the attack surface that can be exploited by malicious actors.

With this larger attack surface, the number of security incidents has also increased. A Checkpoint study has shown that the year 2021 broke records in terms of the number of cyberattacks. According to the study, there was a 50% increase in cyberattacks globally per week compared to 2020.

The costs of these cyber-attacks were also higher for organizations: according to the IBM Data Breach Investigation Report 2021, the cost of a data breach for organizations was $ 4.24 million, a 10% increase compared to 2019. In addition, the costs associated with cybercrime are estimated to have reached $ 6 trillion in 2021.

By hiring cyber insurance, organizations can ensure the costs of a cyberattack are covered by the insurance company, including operational losses and incident recovery costs. Moreover, insurance companies also offer full legal and security incident investigation support. In this way, the company can ensure that it is prepared if it falls victim to cyber attackers and that all efforts are made to recover its infrastructure affected by the security incident.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Segura®
Segura® strive to ensure the sovereignty of companies over actions and privileged information. To this end, we work against data theft through traceability of administrator actions on networks, servers, databases and a multitude of devices. In addition, we pursue compliance with auditing requirements and the most demanding standards, including PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.

Awingu as a secure homeworking solution at the Municipality of Evere

Evere is a Belgian municipality with 43.000 inhabitants, in the Brussels-Capital Region with 1.220.000 inhabitants. In the municipal administration, there are about 300 computer users, working in different departments each with their own needs and work requirements. At the end of 2019, the IT team was looking for a simple and secure solution to enable teleworking for their employees.

Long before working with Awingu, the municipal administration of Evere had implemented the Citrix solution for all its users both within the municipal administration, as well as to allow employees to work remotely on an occasional basis. Over time, limitations encountered with certain specific business applications resulted in a mixed fleet of classic computers and Citrix workstations.

Too much complexity

In 2019, before the health crisis, the situation was as follows: two different solutions for workstations, one of which (Citrix) was slowly being upgraded or replaced by another solution.

“Managing two different technologies but especially the complexity of the Citrix configuration means more complex management, a higher level of skill for the IT team and higher support costs when faced with more advanced technical issues.”

“Managing two different technologies but especially the complexity of the Citrix configuration means more complex management, a higher level of skill for the IT team and higher support costs when faced with more advanced technical issues.”

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Philippe Fournier
Responsible for IT at the Municipality of Evere

Working from home

To continue to make remote working possible and in anticipation of the implementation of structural teleworking, the IT team had already initiated before the start of the pandemic to look for another solution to replace their current configuration.

When the need for teleworking exploded in 2020 due to COVID, the team was pleased to have identified and begun implementing an ideal solution like Awingu.

Advantages of Awingu

Working with Awingu brings only advantages, both for the IT department and for the end users of the municipal administration of Evere, explains Philippe :

“The licensing model is very transparent and easy, especially when compared to other solutions like Citrix or VMware, where you need a consultant just to explain the model to you. Awingu offers competing licenses, so the only choice you have to make is whether to buy or rent the licenses.”

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Philippe Fournier
Responsible for IT at the Municipality of Evere

In addition, he is very pleased that he can purchase Awingu through the CIBG’s central purchasing office. In their catalog, you can find Awingu licenses. All Brussels administrations that have joined the central purchasing office can buy Awingu licenses in compliance with public procurement legislation but without the administrative burden. When Philippe heard about this possibility from a colleague in Sint-Agatha-Berchem, a long-time Awingu customer (as well as 80 other local authorities in Belgium), he immediately saw the great advantage.

In addition, the IT team explained to him that it was relatively easy to install, set up and configure Awingu. For end users, Philippe adds, it couldn’t be simpler:

“Just go to the web, enter a predefined custom url, provide your username and password and you’re in. Then you can easily work with any application (legacy, web, SaaS) or file needed, all in a secure environment. If necessary, you can even mandate that some or all of the integrated MFA solutions be used at no additional cost.”

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Philippe Fournier
Responsible for IT at the Municipality of Evere

For now, they are only using Awingu to facilitate teleworking in a seamless and consistent manner. Other goals are to enable secure remote access for external contractors via Awingu as well.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Parallels 
Parallels® is a global leader in cross-platform solutions, enabling businesses and individuals to access and use the applications and files they need on any device or operating system. Parallels helps customers leverage the best technology available, whether it’s Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android or the cloud.