by Jim Pingle on January 07, 2019
We are excited to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4.4-p2, now available for upgrades! pfSense software version 2.4.4-p2 is a maintenance release, adding support for our new SG-1100 product as well as a handful of fixes for issues present in the 2.4.4-p1 release. To see a complete list of changes and find more detail, see the Release Notes....
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell on January 07, 2019
In boxing lore, a fighter who ‘punches above his weight’ is one who can go toe-to-toe with a much bigger fighter - and win. Our newest fighter is the SG-1100. Compact, sleek package. Low price. Big punch. The $159 SG-1100 has 5X the pfSense® software performance of its very popular predecessor, the SG-1000. How? Let’s check the ‘tale of the...
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell on December 04, 2018
TNSR™, an open-source based high-speed packet processing platform built upon FD.io’s Universal Dataplane technology, delivers compelling secure networking performance, manageability, and services flexibility at a fraction of the cost of big brand solutions. Our newest release, TNSR Release 18.11, was driven by customer requests for deployment options beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netgate® hardware appliances (SG-5100, XG-1537 and XG-1541)....
Read Full Postby Jim Pingle on December 03, 2018
We are excited to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4.4-p1, now available for upgrades! pfSense software version 2.4.4-p1 is a maintenance release, bringing security patches and stability fixes for issues present in the 2.4.4 release. Highlights The following lists are a brief summary of changes in pfSense 2.4.4. To see a complete list of changes and find more...
Read Full Postby Jamie Thompson on November 16, 2018
One of the greatest advantages of open source security software is you can go read the code, do your own evaluation, and make changes if you want to. The disadvantages are reliance on someone else - sometimes volunteers, sometimes engineers paid by a company - to keep the code up to date through ongoing effort including patching CVEs, progressing the...
Read Full Postby David Weber on November 09, 2018
The next generation firewall (NGFW) market is anticipated to grow to $4.3B by 2022. Market growth is now being fueled by cloud appliances, small to medium enterprise adoption, and IoT / BYOD device explosion. These forces are leading to a sales bonanza for NGFW vendors. After all, deep packet inspection for complex security decision-making is tough stuff. It requires specialty...
Read Full Postby Jamie Thompson on November 02, 2018
Earlier this week, Netgate® and FidelisSecurity announced an integrated solution that combines Netgate TNSR™ with Fidelis Network® sensors to enable advanced visibility, threat detection, and data loss/theft detection for applications and data hosted within Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’d like to expand on the announcement just a bit. First, it’s widely understood at this point that most organizations are moving...
Read Full Postby Jamie Thompson on October 18, 2018
Light Reading/Heavy Reading and Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) have released a vendor-sponsored report titled “Open Networking Survey Report”. The report speaks volumes about service providers - across the globe - rapidly and pervasively embracing the power, flexibility and economics of open source software to drive the future of communications services. Take a look at the report here. You might also...
Read Full Postby David Weber on October 11, 2018
The forced march to cloud is underway for every business, government agency and educational institution. But it doesn’t happen seamlessly, or overnight. It takes time for organizations to move apps from on premises data centers to a private or public cloud infrastructure. That introduces complexity for IT, which must ensure secure access for users who need access to apps both...
Read Full Postby Doug McIntire on October 05, 2018
Many of our readers are familiar with the Netgate® Intel® Atom™ 2-core and 4-core Dual-Ethernet MinnowBoard Turbot products. They’ve certainly been popular, and for good reason - ‘bang for the buck’. For processor-intensive small-frame traffic, these two systems rock. Take a look at this performance chart with Packet Filtering enabled: Compared to the SG-2220, one of Netgate’s most popular products,...
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