Untangle Update
Monday, March 16th, 2009This is a quick update on using Untangle as a Gateway/Router and/or NAT. Ours is working fantastic, even though we have very few windows instances in our office (only one windows virtual instance for RDP connections) it isn’t uncommon for guests to bring windows laptops into our offices. Those windows boxes may or may not have proper security implementations and are thus susceptible to viruses, malicious software, and phishing schemes. Untangle effectively protects those computers by standing as a door guard between what can be retrieved from the internet. It also has a complete proxy suite which allows for content control so administrators can decide what catagories or individual websites are appropriate for office viewing. The only drawback is that it requires a moderate computer for an small to medium business deployment (SMB), it realistically needs a single core processor between 1-2Ghz and memory between 1-2GB depending on the size of the office; it’s well worth the sacrifice.
The same effect can be had on less powerful computers by building solutions from a headless linux distribution; however, it takes considerable expertise to build and implement, and is not as friendly to manage. If you’re interested in protecting your network, please contact us for information about your own networks.