Threenix

Threenix Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Security software, security appliances, Internet security, network security
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Perugia, Italy
Products	Web content filtering, anti-spam, antivirus, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, Application Control, firewall, OpenVPN, bandwidth management, web cache
Number of employees	28
Website	threenix.com

Threenix is a computer security software suite.

Overview

Threenix is a complete commercial solution for deep networking security configuration based on a pre-configured Linux platform available as both a hardware and virtual appliance. The installed software is written in Python and C++. This, communicating with core services such as ip route or iptables, provides a number of functionalities, some of which are listed below:

Firewall
DoS protection
Load Balancing/Failover configuration
Bandwidth shaping and bandwidth control
VPN IPSEC, Open VPN and PPtP
Antispam system
Antivirus and Authentication
URL filtering and Content filtering based on category database
Spyware protection

The system displays a beautiful and simple web interface written in HTML, PHP and Javascript to help the user to enable/disable and to configure his personal services in an intuitive way. Moreover, the web interface is equipped with a remote reporter that makes easy to visualize the status of the system and the status of every single service from wherever the user may want. Threenix is released only in Italy and has been developed by PCS Group. The last stable release of the platform is 4.02.00.

New version

In April 2012, PCS Group. started the development of the Threenix's new version 5, which will be completely rewritten in order to make it handle much more features and capabilities. The most important improvements will be:

Use of a CLI (Common Language Interface) which will be the single point of configuration and management
Distributed communication between components
HA (High availability) management

As described in the following diagrams, every service can be distributed on separate appliances for maximum performance and scalability.

Threenix Installation Simple Block Diagram

Threenix Installation Complex Block Diagram

This new distribution will be available also as "Community Edition" that will be free and without support.

External links

Firewall software

Linux

Apps	Netfilter L7-filter NuFW ipset iptables nftables FireHOL Firestarter FirewallD Shorewall Uncomplicated Firewall MoBlock Privoxy Squid

Distros	SmoothWall IPCop IPFire LEDE OpenWrt Zeroshell Untangle

BSD

Apps	PF NPF ipfirewall IPFilter

Distros	M0n0wall SmallWall pfSense

OS X

Windows

Commercial	Check Point Integrity Kaspersky Internet Security McAfee Personal Firewall Plus Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway Norton 360 Norton Personal Firewall Norton Internet Security Outpost Firewall Pro Symantec Endpoint Protection Trend Micro Internet Security Windows Firewall Windows Live OneCare WinGate WinRoute

Freemium	Comodo Internet Security Online Armor Personal Firewall PC Tools Internet Security ZoneAlarm

Open-source	PeerBlock PeerGuardian

Appliances

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