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Earlier this week, Netgate® and FidelisSecurity announced an integrated solution that combines Netgate TNSR™ with Fidelis Network® sensors to enable advanced visibility, threat detection, and data loss/theft detection for applications and data hosted within Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’d like to expand on the announcement just a bit.

Light Reading/Heavy Reading and Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) have released a vendor-sponsored report titled “Open Networking Survey Report”. The report speaks volumes about service providers - across the globe - rapidly and pervasively embracing ... [More] the power, flexibility and economics of open source software to drive the future of communications services. Take a look at the report here. You might also enjoy Roz Roseboro’s blog covering the same topic. Roz is Light Reading’s Principal Analyst - Cloud Infrastructure and Management. In her blog, our own Jim Thompson, Netgate CTO, figures prominently. [Less]

The forced march to cloud is underway for every business, government agency and educational institution. But it doesn’t happen seamlessly, or overnight. It takes time for organizations to move apps from on premises data centers to a private or public ... [More] cloud infrastructure. That introduces complexity for IT, which must ensure secure access for users who need access to apps both in the cloud and on-premises. Things get tricky, cumbersome, and expensive to manage if one set of sign-on credentials and infrastructure are required for on-premise apps and a second set / infrastructure are required for cloud apps. [Less]

Many of our readers are familiar with the Netgate® Intel® Atom™ 2-core and 4-core Dual-Ethernet MinnowBoard Turbot products. They’ve certainly been popular, and for good reason - ‘bang for the buck’. For processor-intensive small-frame traffic, these two systems rock. Take a look at this performance chart with Packet Filtering enabled:

We are excited to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4.4, now available for new installations and upgrades!

Network security is serious business so let’s get right to the point: pfSense® software version 2.3.x is nearing End Of Life, October 31, 2018.

When we released TNSR 18.05 in June, I talked about the “behemoth router” and a few use cases that support its disruptive potential. Today, our second release, TNSR 18.08 is live on AWS.

We are pleased to announce the addition of the Netgate® SG-5100 pfSense® Security Gateway appliance, our latest Intel C3000 based appliance, which provides significant performance and engineering improvements relative to the SG-4860.

Would you like a chance to win one of four Limited Edition Minnowboard Dual-Ethernet systems from Netgate® valued at $249.00? How about four chances? We’re giving one away each week for the next four (4) weeks.

Today we’re pleased to announce that The pfSense Book is also freely available to everyone. As we promised in a previous blog, all of the services provided with a pfSense® Gold membership will be made available to everyone by the release of pfSense ... [More] software version 2.4.4. We’ve already made the Monthly pfSense Hangout videos available on YouTube, and we’ve announced that Automatic Config Backup (ACB) is a bundled feature in pfSense 2.4.4. [Less]