Foursys announced today that it has entered into a partner agreement with ForeScout, a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader in Network Access Control (NAC) technology. The partnership will offer the opportunity for Foursys customers to use award-winning network visibility and access controls to further enhance their IT security of their customers.

“ForeScout is an expert in NAC and BYOD security products that are simple to deploy and manage” says Paul Prior, MD at Foursys. “They have recently been recognised by Gartner as a leader in NAC technology and this was a major factor in selecting ForeScout as a strategic partner for Foursys. Their 100% channel-only approach and partner programme gives the relationship a strong foundation that ensures the ForeScout proposition remains complementary to our own business model.”

Foursys will be offering their full professional service portfolio for ForeScout products which includes project design, scoping , installation, support and training. Together the Foursys and ForeScout offerings enable organisations of all sizes to accelerate productivity and connectivity by allowing users to access corporate network resources where, how and when needed without compromising security. ForeScout’s real-time network security platform for access control, mobile security, endpoint compliance and threat prevention empower IT agility while pre-empting risks and eliminating remediation costs.

“We’re delighted to have Foursys as a ForeScout partner” says Peter Batchelor, UK&I Regional Manager at ForeScout. “By deploying ForeScout CounterACT technologies Foursys customers will immediately start to see real-time visibility of their network and support plans to allow users to bring their own devices (BYOD) onto the network.”

 

It's back! Our latest IT security brain-busting puzzle that requires logical, creative and technical brain cells to complete. This time Matt Ford our sales engineer who carries out our Sophos Training Courses has set the bar high. In return for attempting and correctly deciphering our riddle we give one lucky winner a star prize. Our prize is the type of thing every techie has always wanted but could never part £200 of your hard earned money for.

Good luck, if you need any help send us an SOS tweet to @foursysltd and we'll come to your rescue.

The Prize:

Logicom SPY-C Tank
The tank creates its own 60m WiFi that you control from your iOS or Andriod device. The camera, which can be tilted through 45° beams the live image straight back to you and can be recorded directly on your device. It even has night vision and a walkie-talkie function allowing you to hear everything your tank does and to interact!

Everyone who successfully completes the puzzle will be entered into the prize draw to win the Logicom SPY-C Tank.

The Puzzle:

Take what you see from this very page
White noise, perchance, will reveal the first stage
From there you might begin to see
The code you need, revealed to thee

Hidden amongst the wall of script
Directions to a hidden crypt
Open this tome with what you've found
You'll then have covered plenty of ground

Take note of what the sage will speak
Spliced between, the payload you seek
Once you feel you have the code
To crack it, find the appropriate mode

You may feel the need to start from scratch
and return to see the Initial batch
of text upon the page you view
and reveal the secret word to you

 

The closing date for entries is Tuesday, April 30th.

 

People who have completed this puzzle:

Thu 4th April - Jamie Green, Carter-Ruck Solicitors
Fri 5th April - Steve Worswick, Selby District Council
Mon 8th April - Richard Walker, Calderdale Council
Mon 8th April - Dale Grant, East Ayrshire Council
Mon 8th April - Martin Ronald, East Ayrshire Council
Thu 11th April - Nick Brown, AIM Aviation
Thu 11th April - James Thomas, AIM Aviation
Fri 19th April - Daniel Thomas, Prion Cutting Edge
Thu 25th April - Graham McCallum, Rother District Council
Fri 26th April - Anthony Stretch, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service

 

And the winner is:

Now, it might seem like a fix but the first name out of the hat from the 10 names that went in was in fact the first player to successfully complete the puzzle Jamie Green from Carter-Ruck Solicitors! Congratulations Jamie, the Logicom SPY-C Tank is on its way to you as I type.

Foursys would like to thank everyone that attempted the puzzle and congratulate the names above who completed the puzzle - it was no mean feat! For the many of you that failed to solve the riddle this is how it's done, straight from the guy who set the puzzle, Matt Ford:

 

We love receiving feedback here at Foursys and it’s always nice when a long standing customer of ours sings our praises for our scheduled Sophos training course. We hold them quarterly all over the country and here is what Nigel Rose, a network engineer from Pickerings Europe, had to say about them:

“Both Michael and I were extremely happy with the course, to courses content and the delivery of the course.

Matt was extremely professional, he put Michael and myself at ease, we went at a pace that suited us. The end result was a course that was informative, well delivered and relaxed. We really could not have hoped for a better outcome.

 

Please pass on our thanks to Matt for a relaxed, informative, enjoyable and professionally delivered course.”

Full details of our next training courses can be found here: http://www.foursys.co.uk/company/blog/1010-sophos-endpoint-training-courses 

We are off spreading our knowledge of Sophos Endpoint again and this time we are heading to Birmingham on Thursday, May 16th 2013 and also Cambridge on Thursday, April 18th 2013.

We’ve invested in five brand new laptops so we can speedily turn you into a super Sophos Endpoint Administrator by the end of the day.

Our industry leading security technician will teach you and/or your team all the key aspects of running Sophos Endpoint on a day-to-day basis. Learn how to troubleshoot, support and get the most out of your Sophos solution.

You will complete a series of labs throughout the day that will give you hands on experience of configuring ‘live’ systems with Sophos Endpoint and we will give you a training manually that you use on the day and also be taken away with you that you can refer back. We will even present you with a certificate for completing the course. What is more, if there is anything specifically that you want to focus on, let us know and we’ll include it in the course at the appropriate time.

If that whets your appetite see the full run down of what the course covers below or sign up to either venue* here >

*At time of writing we only have one space available for Cambridge, three for Birmingham.

Configuration and Deployment

>> Enterprise console overview >> Policy updates > AV and HIPS > Application Control > Firewall > Device control > DLP

>> Full Disk Encryption >> Tamper Protection >> Patch Assessment >> Web Control >> Active directory synchronization >> Lab Exercise

Administration

>> Post deployment administration >> Enterprise console dashboard >> Identifying and resolving errors/alerts

>> Responding to a virus infection >> Configuring advanced policies >> Lab exercise

Trouble Shooting

>> How to resolve common installation problems >> Hardware and software requirements

>> Lab exercise

Advanced Tasks

>> Planning a deployment or upgrade >> Deploying via a script >> Protecting standalone clients >> Deploying over a WAN

>> Backup considerations >> How to restore after failure >> Integrated NAC Agent configuration >> Lab exercise