Untangle and Protect Your Network
Untangle is one of those rare applications that I really like, use and enjoy telling people about. It is a combination of multiple open source applications and highly customized paid applications that provide the full suite of solutions for protecting your network. These applications include Anti-spam, Web Content Filtering, Antivirus, Anti-phishing, Anti-spyware, Intrusion prevention, Firewall, OpenVPN, SSL VPN, Router, Protocol Control, Attack Blocker, Reporting, Policy Manager, and Kaspersky Virus Blocker on the Untangle Gateway Platform.
I'm often asked why Untangle comes so highly recommended for home, small business, enterprise, education and government usage. The answer is simple. Untangle works. Untangle is simple to install, configure and use. Whether your network is at home or a WAN with hundreds of clients spread all over the world Untangle has a solution.
Business owners love Untangle as it enables them to stop their staff from watching undesirable web sites, e.g. porn, in the office. It protects them from the risk of lawsuits from other staff that could be offended, and frees them up to go out and see customers, not worry about whether the team back in the office is just wasting time online.
Parents love Untangle because they can monitor and control what their kids are doing online, without having to install some kind of snooping software on their kids' laptops. It's unobtrusive, and gives them the parent control they need to protect their family.
The typical home network Untangle solution includes:
- Web Content Filtering that prevents access to undesirable web sites
- Policy Management to set rules for who can see and do what
- Virus Protection to prevent viruses from your computers
- Spyware Blocking to protect from malicious websites
- Phish Blocking to protect from identity theft phishing
- Spam Blocking stops junk email from getting through
- Firewall hides your network from the Internet
- Protocol Controls to block or allow access to online games, Instant Messaging and P2P
- Reports to show who is doing what online
- Automatic Updates keep the software updated
- Untangle Support for when you get stuck
Looking at the list above there are a lot of other tools that don't support half of that functionality and cost thousands of dollars. Untangle helps people easily regain control of their networks. They provide software and services for samll business, homes and schools, that let them to protect, monitor and manage what happens on their networks, more simply and cost effectively.
The Internet has become an essential tool for homes, schools and businesses. Unfortunately it's also a minefield waiting to blow the unprotected. Untangle can sort all of that for you and provide the kind of protection to fit your needs whether you're network is at home or a multi-site business spread around the world. Give Untangle a try today and easily protect, control, and monitor the online activities via a single Windows PC, and without IT support.