Endian Firewall Community 3.0 has been released

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January 22, 2014

After two years of development, The Endian development team has announced the release of Endian Firewall Community 3.0, built based on CentOS and intended to create firewalls.

The distribution includes a comprehensive set of tools to protect the network from external threats (UTM – Unified Threat Management), such as a packet filter with stateful , funds for anti-virus scanning HTTP/FTP/POP3/SMTP traffic system content filtering tools to protect phishing and spam, SSL / TLS VPN, intrusion detection system . Control system via the web- interface or command line. Size of the boot iso-image – 217 MB.

The main innovations:

Added support for filtering HTTPS- traffic;
Added tools to manage domain in the SMTP Proxy and configure the DSN for SMTP;
Support for creating VPN using IPsec;
For OpenVPN mode was implemented TUN, for users to install page added compounds prepared for administrators to manage user interface OpenVPN;
Integrated tools for working with integrated and external certification authority ;
Support for two-factor authentication (password and certificate);
Interface for monitoring traffic in the live-mode (used ntopng);
Schedule system state is now saved between reboots;
Graphic statistics of postal shipments.

The commercial version differs from Community-edition deployment of wireless networks , technical support , the presence of specialized hardware platform , centralized management , support hypervisor delivery VPN-client for iOS to Android. Community- operated editorial distributed under the GPL.