SmoothWall Express 3.0 is an open source GNU/Linux firewall which is security-hardened and freely downloadable. By design, it has minimal hardware requirements and a small footprint.

Lafarge Africa have awarded a contract to Jeshurun Consulting to deploy the Linux-based Smoothwall firewall solution at its various sites through out Africa.

Open source security software can be very effective at keeping the bad guys off your network, but it can also be hard to configure and time consuming to keep patched and up to date.

Back in August we shared that Sun would be discontinuing SXCE, or formally known as Solaris Express Community Edition.

UFW or Uncomplicated Firewall, is a text based firewall that works with iptables. UFW is designed to be an easier way to manage a firewall from the command line. Whether this is easier than learning iptables or not, you can decide. But UFW comes partially set up when you install Ubuntu.

The UFW has a GUI front end that you can add to it to provide an “easier” method of working with the firewall. You will see that it will be installed and available using System/Adminstration/Firewall administration. The interface is set up for several different options.

Configure Microsoft Outlook Express with TLS and SMTP_AUTH. This is a common issue that can be overlooked by administrators for users who insist on using Outlook Express. The set up for secure login and sending email is not intuitive.

The firewall configuration on CentOS 6 has changed. This article shows how to add your own firewall rules to the configuration. CentOS 6 has more options with the firewall than previous versions.

This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX).