pfSense

Worried about intruders taking your data? Worried about viruses, and malware? Simply want to block questionable content?

pfSense has you covered. pfSense is an open source firewall project that has been trusted by some of the largest and most advanced companies in the world. Such as Google, Shopify and even NASA.

With it’s infinite in customizability and top notch security it’s no wonder why some of these leading companies have chosen to protect their nextwork with pfSense.

pfSense started it’s great journey back in 2004 as a development fork of m0n0wall project by Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich. Spending the next 2 years working on pfSense the firewall was later released in 2006 build on the foundation of FreeBSD.

Over 10 years later it has culivated some the strongest security in the industry, with the help from other developers provided plugins to improve certain aspects of the firewall, as well as adding more features.

pfSense now has the following features:

Intrusion Protection

Domain and GEO IP blocking

UPNP

Nat reflection

App blocking (youtube, facebook messenger)

High availability

MultiWAN – Load balancing and fail over

That just scratches the surface of what pfSense can do. With multiple deployment methods as well. This firewall can run on nearly anything. Want to run it in a VM? No problem, it has support for KVM hypervisor, VMWare, and hyper-v. Looking for physical units instead? Netgate designs and test pfSense on their great products to ensure absolute reliability, and compatibility.

pfSense can even easily support fully gigabit internet. That is easier said than done for most firewalls. Unable to handle the requests coming in and out of the firewall many will stumble trying to protect while providing you a full speed connection, and with the growing demand for high speed internet this is becoming a nessecity, and pfSense can do it with ease, while protecting you.

Want to find out more about pfSense? Feel free to contact us and we can show you