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WireGuard VPN

WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-source software that implements encrypted virtual private networks (VPNs), and was designed with the goals of ease of use, high speed performance, and low attack surface.

OPNcentral

Is a centralized management plugin, it utilizes OPNsense’s restAPI to offer a range of centralized features.

GeoIP database

Is a database that maps IP addresses to geographical locations, such as a country, city, or region.

AMD EPYC

Is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors designed and sold by AMD, based on the company’s Zen microarchitecture.

IPsec

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure encrypted communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network.

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is an open source operating system based on UNIX. The source code of FreeBSD is open source, which means that anyone can view and edit this source code. The operating system is widely used in servers, mainframes, workstations & embedded computers.

OSI

The Open Source Initiative defines open source software as software that is distributed with human readable source code in order to allow the user freedom to run, review, alter, enhance and modify the code for any purpose.

Firewall

A firewall is a computer network security system that restricts Internet traffic to, from, or within a private network. This software or special hardware software unit works by selectively blocking or allowing data packets.

Forward caching proxy

When using a forward proxy configuration, Caching Proxy machines are located between the client and the Internet. Caching Proxy forwards a client’s request to content hosts located across the Internet, caches the retrieved data, and delivers the retrieved data to the client.

Traffic shaping

Traffic shaping is used to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds.

MVC framework

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is an architectural/design pattern that separates an application into three main logical components Model, View, and Controller. Each architectural component is built to handle specific development aspects of an application.

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Deciso announces the next major release of OPNsense 16.7 “Dancing Dolpin”

July 28th, 2016 – Middelharnis, The Netherlands – OPNsense is a fast-growing open source firewall and security platform released under an Open Source Initiative approved license.

The project combines the best of open source and proprietary firewalls. It offers a rich feature set, the benefits of open and verifiable sources and can be downloaded for free.

Deciso announces the immediate availability of version 16.7 named “Dancing Dolphin”.

Since the previous major release, its impressive feature set has been expanded with category based web filtering, two-factor authentication (2FA), built-in bandwidth monitoring, netflow exporter, ICAP support and a high-performance load balancer plugin based upon HAProxy.

A new pattern-matching library called Hyperscan was introduced to dramatically improve the performance of the Intrusion Prevention System.

The user experience has been improved for all visible GUI pages including a completely revamped dashboard with multi-column and drag & drop support. At the same time multi-language support has been extended with the completion of Japanese and Russian.

For developers the RESTful API has been extended, new development tools made available and a pluggable infrastructure was added for services, syslog and interfaces.

OPNsense 16.7 is equipped with a reliable and secure update mechanism to provide weekly security updates. The latest release is based upon FreeBSD 10.3 for long-term support and includes HardenedBSD’s ASLR implementation enhancing the base systems protection against buffer overflow attacks.

“With the ‘Dancing Dolphin’, OPNsense is ready for the Enterprise”

“We have proven that high-end security doesn’t need to be difficult or expensive. With the help of the community OPNsense is rapidly becoming a widely used open source security and firewall platform.“

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About Deciso
Deciso B.V. (https://www.deciso.com) is a globally operating manufacturer of networking equipment. The company designs and produces complete products for integrators, OEMs and resellers. Deciso believes in the power of open source and actively contributes to the open source community. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Middelharnis, the Netherlands

For more information on OPNsense software, see project website: OPNsense.org