Smoothwall Firewall

Combines with Smoothwall Filter for a complete all in one protection package.

Can be purchased independently or combined to offer a unified threat management solution.

Smoothwall Firewall

Next generation firewall

Combines Layer 7 application control with perimeter firewall and stateful packet inspection to provide Next-Generation firewall functionality.

Real-time dynamic filter

Includes Smoothwall's pioneering web filter.

Intrusion detection and prevention

Monitor, report on and react to any malicious attacks on your system.

Four reasons to choose Smoothwall

UK education focussed

All Smoothwall's solutions are designed and built to exceed UK legislation and requirements.

Pioneering

Combines with Smoothwall Filter - the only fully content-aware web filter in UK education.

Choice of deployment

You can choose which Filter deployment method works for you.

UK based support

Our UK based customer support team are education specialists and available to help whenever you need them.

Unified threat management for schools, colleges and MATs

Smoothwall Firewall features anti-malware protection, HTTPS inspection, anonymous proxy detection & blocking, and
intrusion detection & prevention, to provide you with a complete all-in-one protection package.

Next generation firewall

Perimeter firewall and internal segmentation firewall to protect your network against all web and non-web borne threats.

Layer 7 application control

Identify and stop applications that you don’t want on your network and prioritise those that you do.

Intrusion detection and prevention

Monitor, report on and react to any malicious attacks on your system.

VPN

Supports both Site-to-Site (IPsec) VPNs and Remote Users (SSL and L2TP).

Link and load balancing

Support for multiple WAN connections.

Directory server integration

Microsoft Active Directory, Open Directory, eDirectory and more.

Source natting

Ensure traffic going out over multiple IPs is correctly routed.

What our customers are saying

In the early days it was purely price and performance we were looking for, but the product is constantly evolving to meet our needs.

Network Manager
Rye St Antony

Having web securiy that safeguards our students is nowadays as important as the technical features such as SLL inspect. This combined with the excellent pricing puts Smoothwall a level above the competition.

Enterprise Applications Controller
New College Durham

You've come up trumps for schools, the product is second to none.

ICT Manager and e-Safety Officer
Berwick Academy

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