Season’s Greetings from all of us as Thanksgiving and Christmas approach. And, as 2024 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to focus on end-of-year security preparations. Ensure your systems are protected by implementing our automated security solutions for the holiday season.

Messageware Z-Day Guard for Microsoft Servers

15 minute Security Challenge: Get Protected before the End-of-Year Freeze
It takes just 15 minutes to try Messageware’s Z-Day Guard on a Windows or Exchange Server. Z-Day Guard offers lightning-fast security, detecting zero-day exploits and other threats to Microsoft servers. Z-Day removes complexity and cost enabling you to experience top-tier protection; run Z-Day for free with a test install today!  Sign up and try Z-Day Guard for free.

Upcoming: Z-Day Guard V2.0 for Windows and Exchange Servers

We’re excited to announce the next version of Z-Day Guard that adds powerful new enhancements to manage and monitor multiple servers with ease, in addition to its robust cyberattack detection features.

NEW: Enhanced and Simplified visibility for multi-server environments

  • Single dashboard for multiple servers
  • Consolidated health reporting across all servers

Integrity Monitoring for Windows Task Scheduler, IIS vDirs, Critical Files

  • Z-Day Guard establishes server baselines for typical operations. It immediately alerts your SecOps team when unusual changes are detected, helping prevent cybercriminals from exploiting servers.

Ready-to-Use Server Templates

  • Z-Day Guard supports all Windows Servers and includes preconfigured templates tailored to each server type. These templates simplify installation and customization, ensuring optimal configuration with minimal setup time.

Product Information (PDF):

Z-Day Guard is deployed at many customer sites, provides always-on next-generation server monitoring against cyber-attacks. Read our Overview and Feature Highlights:
https://www.messageware.com/pdf/Z-Day-Product-Sheet.pdf

Microsoft Prepares for Major Exchange Server Releases (CU15 & SE)

Great things are coming to Microsoft on-premises Exchange! Microsoft has announced the new Exchange Server SE (Subscription Edition), set to launch in Q3 2025, offering a seamless in-place upgrade from the upcoming Exchange 2019 CU15 cumulative update. The new Exchange SE edition will be supported with regular updates under a modern lifecycle policy.

Before the release of Exchange Server SE, we will see the next Cumulative Update, CU15 for Exchange 2019.  Set to arrive before the end of 2024, CU15 is bringing important new features such as TLS 1.3, improved certificate management, and Windows Server 2025 support!

As part of these announcements, Microsoft has confirmed that Exchange Server 2013 is no longer supported and cannot co-exist with 2019 CU15 and 2019 SE.  Organizations should be planning their upgrade path to 2019 CU15 and SE to avoid security risks and ensure continued support.

Read more about Exchange SE and Exchange 2019 CU15 at Microsoft:

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Can we have a conversation before the holidays?
Take fifteen minutes to test-drive Messageware Z-Day, and guard your Microsoft servers for 30 days.
https://www.messageware.com/z-day-free-trial/

Best regards,

Mark Rotman
President and CEO Messageware Incorporated