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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 17.1 “Eclectic Eagle”

January 31st, 2017 – Middelharnis, The Netherlands – OPNsense is the fastest 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 is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 17.1 named “Eclectic Eagle”.

Since the previous major release, its impressive feature set has been expanded with full mesh routing for virtual private networks, enhanced multi-WAN support, native PAM authentication against e.g. 2 Factor Authentication (TOTP) and various new or updated plugins.

The community has grown significantly and a new core team member has joined our efforts to become the most widely used open source security platform available.

The user experience has been further improved by adding remote installation support using SSH, new flash images that adapt automatically to the disk size as well as many GUI enhancements and 4 new languages bringing the total supported languages to 10.

For developers, the RESTful API and the pluggable infrastructure has been further extended to include pluggable firewall rules & authentication services. At the same time unit test where added for main parts of the MVC framework.

OPNsense 17.1 is the first open source firewall to feature FreeBSD 11 at its core for long-term support and the only one to offer state-of-the-art HardenedBSD security features. For the latest release the reliable and secure update mechanism was extended to offer full change logs as well as a new audit feature that is able to check the installed version for known security issues.

“With the ‘Eclectic Eagle, OPNsense further establishes its position in the security market”

“The eagle represents the freedom and strength of the project with its high-end security features and rapidly growing community.”

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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