Security and Endian Firewall

Endian Firewall

Almost 2 years ago,  Juan Baptiste talk to me about an open source software called Endian Firewall. This software it’s a Linux distribution created for security and  networking management using it like an appliance.

I decide to use it on a “home server”, everything was perfect, but unfortunately I couldn’t  use all his available features.  I was using Endian 2.2rc1. Important, Endian it’s a Linux From The Scratch, this increase security because isn’t a fork or modified version of another Linux.

In my previous job I have two servers running Endian Firewall 2.2. Throught them I managed firewall, port forwarding, proxy, content filtering, NTP server, Snort, Ntop and OpenVPN, my favorite one . But, some day  Ruri told me about Dansguardian and it’s group management, so we check and Endian support it but any change made on command line get lost because the web interface isn`t support them.

Today, in my new job and related with other stuff I’m learning, one question appear in my head: What about autentication using LDAP instead IP address on my proxy?, Well Endian, until 2.2 don’t have this option, but, today yes

Endian Firewall development team have release a new shiny version which includes:

-Automatic backups

- Alert and Warnings mail to your sysadmin

- Autentication throught  LDAP (AD, OpenLDAP, etc) for the proxy Sweet

- QoS Module (Quality of Service, priority and all that useful stuffs)

- Groups on Dansguardian management

-  HotSpots module

So, I invite you to try it. More info here