Company

Open source makes sense

Our community plays a pivotal role in shaping the ongoing development of our open-source OPNsense Software products. With over 250,000 participants worldwide, our community is not just a collective; they’re our partners in progress. This collaborative and continuous pursuit of improvement is at the core of our ethos.

Proud open-source sponsor

We recognize the importance and power of Open Source and wholeheartedly commit to supporting and promoting it.

We value community feedback immensely, actively engaging with users to ensure our products evolve in tandem with the dynamic digital landscape. By leveraging community testing, we maintain a rapid pace of software updates, enabling us to respond swiftly to emerging threats and efficiently develop our roadmap.

Features

Features developed through community collaboration seamlessly integrate into our paid versions, guaranteeing regular updates and proactive threat response.

The feature set of OPNsense includes high-end features such as forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection and easy OpenVPN client setup. The latest release is based upon FreeBSD for long-term support and uses a newly developed MVC-framework based on Phalcon.

OPNsense’s focus on security brings unique features such as the integrated security check for known vulnerabilities, which can be found in our firmware module.

The robust and reliable update mechanism gives OPNsense the ability to provide important security updates in a timely fashion.

Our team

We are developers at heart with innovation at the basis of our design philosophy. We facilitate the further growth and support of our products with technical excellence and commitment.

Together with our core team and a large and active user community, we are the proud makers of the OPNsense brand, celebrating its open-source character.

Core Team Members

Robert van Papeveld

Franco Fichtner

An experienced software architect with avid interest in operating systems and firewalls.

Ad Schellevis

Consultant, developer and engineer with a focus on quality. First time right.

Jos Schellevis

A creative thinker with over 25 years of experience in networking and telecommunications.

Our license

OPNsense is licensed under an Open Source Initiative approved license. OPNsense is and will be available with the simple 2-clause BSD license. We believe an open source project should provide the sources and the tools to build it.