UUNite / AUUG Meeting Tonight
Neil Pickford
neilp at goldweb.com.au
Wed Nov 20 09:20:33 EST 2002
A reminder that the UUNite / AUUG - Unix/Linux interest group are
having their regular monthly meeting tonight. This meeting is free
for all interested to attend. Michael Cohen has kindly offered to
give us a run down on his new open source proxy firewall software
suite tonight, at the November meeting. (Blurb Below.)
Don't Forget.....Time and place
6 PM
Wed 20th of November
Ground Floor IBM Building
8 Brisbane Ave.
Barton ACT
Overview of Topic
Proxy based firewalls offer superior protection to packet filtering
firewalls. Because the proxies are interpreting each protocol, it is
possible to specify fine grained policies controlling how specific
protocols are to be used, not only which protocols are allowed.
REAPOFF (Regular Expression, Arbitrary Protocol, Opensource Filtering
Firewall) aims to be an enterprise level proxying firewall. If has a
number of unique features, some of which are not found in any other
firewall on the market at this time. A small sample of these are:
-Transparent proxying support for FTP, HTTP, SMTP etc.
-Full SSL man in the middle proxying for inspection of SSL encrypted
data streams.
-Extensive HTTP proxy with fine grained site control and content
filtering, as well as privacy controls.
-In lined intrusion detection - useful for terminating suspicious
connections without affecting service quality.
-Fully programmable configuration language - new proxies and rules
can be written directly into the configuration file without the
need to alter the code.
-Innovative GUI, easy configuration in a logical and straightforward
manner.
Proxies are configured from simple building blocks allowing versatility
and control over the overall behaviour.
This talk will introduce REAPOFF and demonstrate some of these features.
REAPOFF is distributed under the GPL.
Come along and see it in action 8-)
Neil Pickford
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