14 DAY TRIAL // On October 27th, Christian Graffer from the Endian team proudly announced the immediate availability of the Endian Firewall Community 2.3 Linux-based operating system. The new version includes a lot of bug fixes, improvements and many new and breathtaking features. We, at the Softpedia Labs, took the 2.3 release for a test drive and, among the new features, we noticed the support for backups, a dashbord, the VPN support, the SNMP support, e-mail notifications, policy routing, QoS, intrusion prevention, and many more.
Highlights of Endian Firewall 2.3:
· USB backups; · Encrypted backups via email; · Scheduled backups; · Dashboard (with live graphs and system/services statistics); · E-mail notifications for upcoming events; · Time-based access control lists for HTTP proxy; · New HTTP proxy web interface (with user-based and group-based content filtering); · Intrusion prevention (with configurable Snort rules); · Policy routing rules; · Better port forwarding; · QoS (Quality of Service) – replaces the Traffic Shaping feature; · Added support for SNMP; · A better and easy-to-use SMTP proxy web interface; · Support for VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q trunking).
What is Endian Firewall?
Endian Firewall Community is a "turn-key" GNU/Linux distribution that turns every system into a full-featured security appliance. Endian Firewall is very easy to install, flexible, easy to manage and use.
Its features include:
· A stateful packet inspection firewall; · Application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support; · Virus and spam filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP); · Content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on OpenVPN).
Endian Firewall's main advantage is that it is a pure open source solution sponsored by Endian. Its goal is to work with the open source community to build a secure, complete and stable firewall exclusively from open source software.
Download Endian Firewall Community 2.3 right now from Softpedia.