SmoothWall Simplifies Open Source Security

"That's the reason for the popularity among network administrators of hardware appliances such the Astaro’s Security Gateway -- which we took a look at in a previous article -- that integrate a number of applications under a single GUI and provide an automated patching and updating system.

"But Astaro is certainly not the only game in town -- another well known name in this market is SmoothWall Ltd, a UK based company which maintains an open source firewall project also called SmoothWall. This software has been evolving for the last eight years, the current version being called SmoothWall Express 3.0"

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