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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 17.7 “Free Fox”

July 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 17.7 named “Free Fox”.

With a strong focus on security this major release introduces an innovative exploit mitigation technique called SafeStack. This innovation was made possible by the strong cooperation with the HardenedBSD project and introduces application hardening that protects programs against attacks based on stack buffer overflows.

Since the previous major release, the plugin infrastructure has grown significantly with the introduction of several – community supported – plugins such as a reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer, Quagga with broad routing protocol support and Let’s Encrypt for free and automated certificates.

The community has – yet again – shown a significant increase, further aiding to our goal of becoming the most widely used open source security platform available.

Users will notice the streamlining of various parts of the system and the significant GUI performance speedup for installation with a large number of interfaces.

For developers, the RESTful API and the pluggable infrastructure has been further improved and extended.

OPNsense® 17.7 is the first open source firewall to feature SafeStack at its core and the only actively developed security platform offered under a 2-clause BSD license. The team believes that open source allows for sharing of ideas and helps to creating better products.

“The ‘Free Fox‘, represents our focus, determination and commitment to an exceptionally featured, open and freely available security platform”

“We are immensely proud to offer outstanding security for free. Special thanks go out to our active community members and partners who help to shape the future of our project.”

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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