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Untangle Network Security

By : Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab
Book Image

Untangle Network Security

By: Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Untangle Network Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to Untangle

This chapter will introduce you to the Untangle company and its products. Untangle has two product lines: Untangle NGFW and IC Control. In this chapter, we will introduce you to Untangle NGFW and the modules available to be installed on the NGFW.

This chapter will also cover some of the information security basics required to understand the importance of using Untangle NGFW to protect our networks. In addition, the major changes from version 9.4.2 to version 10.2.1 will be covered.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing Untangle, Inc.

  • An overview of information security

  • Introducing Untangle NGFW

  • Reviewing the change log