Firewalla's Gold Pro Security Firewall: Turning Home Networks into Fort Knox
The internet has revolutionized the way we live, work, and interact with one another. With the rapid advancement of technology, our homes and businesses have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In a world where online security is no longer just a concern, but a necessity, Firewalla's Gold Pro Security Firewall stands out as a game-changer in protecting our digital lives.
The internet has changed our lives as fundamentally as the invention of the automobile, airplane, telephone, and television. Those born since the Internet came of age will never know what life was like before Google, TikTok, X, and instant messaging. There's a dark side to the internet, including inappropriate sexual material, viruses, malware, and hackers. Internet fraud is the fastest-growing crime and yet, how many homes and businesses leave their cyber front door wide open so anyone can infect their computers and or harm their family?
Online security can be a bit of a dry subject… until it isn’t. If you've ever been hacked, had your bank or credit card cloned, or had your identity stolen, you'll know how violated it can make you feel. It can also be incredibly expensive to put things right. Leaving a network unprotected is as foolish as keeping your front door open and putting some cash on the kitchen table and leaving your keys in the car's ignition.
The Firewalla Gold Pro: A Premium Security Solution
Firewalla is a company that makes both hardware and software for turning home or office networks into the cyber-equivalent of Fort Knox. The Firewalla Gold Pro is the company's premium Security Gateway and it is designed to stop online attacks, phishing, hacking, spoofing, and the countless other forms of cyber-attack that can expose families and businesses to genuine danger and financial loss.
The Firewalla Gold Pro is described as the world's most affordable 10Gb smart firewall and it includes all the features that Firewalla's security software has to offer. It's easy to configure and use with the Firewalla smartphone app and there are no monthly subscription fees.
Key Features of the Firewalla Gold Pro
The Firewalla Gold Pro is a compact device that features twin 10-gigabit WAN/LAN ports and two 2.5G LAN ports for a future-proof setup that can handle the latest generation of gigabit fiber internet connections. Four fast Ethernet ports on the Firewalla Gold Pro have enough bandwidth to handle the internet traffic for an office, hotel, school, or busy home.
The hardware is powered by a 64-bit Intel 12th-generation processor and the device has 10 gigabits of deep packet inspection. Firewalla also supports a two-Gigabit WireGuard VPN connection for fast, secure, and anonymous connectivity that's simple to use and very efficient.
Advanced Threat Detection and Response
The Firewalla Gold Pro is intelligent enough to gain advanced insights into how you use your network and it can safeguard the personal and business data behind its firewall. It's constantly on the lookout for threats by using dynamic content filtering.
However, not all threats come from outside a network. Danger can come from within when bad actors use social engineering to gain network access with something as simple as fooling someone into revealing a password. Weak passwords and unprotected devices are a weak point that can be easily exploited.
The Firewalla Gold Pro constantly monitors and controls how the network is being used. It can detect if a user is visiting an unsafe website or indulging in risky online behaviour. It will block unwanted ads and pop-ups that could contain Trojans and malware, such as key loggers.
Advanced Network Segmentation and Smart Queue
The Firewalla Gold Pro offers Advanced Network Segmentation, which can quarantine or ring fence certain functions and can even put a network into lockdown mode should it detect or anticipate a cyber threat.
To ensure that all this massive amount of monitoring doesn’t slow the network down, Firewalla Gold Pro uses a feature called Advanced Smart Queue, which anticipates how the network is being used or how it could be used. This reduces the network’s latency and, if more speed is needed, multiple WANs can be aggregated to increase the data bandwidth for even faster throughput.
Protection from IoT Threats and Public Wi-Fi
Firewalla Gold Pro can watch over any IoT devices, such as smart speakers, baby monitors, or security cameras. These days, many homes and offices positively bristle with IoT technology. These devices are useful, but they can sometimes be a weak point of a network that can be exploited by hackers.
Firewalla sends automatic alerts to protect the network from these kinds of cyber threats. Although the Internet is largely borderless, some geographical zones represent more of a threat than others. Certain countries and governments use cyber warfare to disrupt their "enemies" by using disinformation, malware, and other types of cyber-attacks.
The Firewalla Gold Pro can block network traffic from an entire country or range of IP addresses if necessary. It has the tools to actively stop hackers from remotely attacking a business or home network.
Parental Controls and Safety Features
The Firewalla Gold Pro includes comprehensive parental controls that can be turned on and off with a click of a button and which instantly restricts any device or app from accessing the internet. Firewalla's parental controls can also be used to block social networking sites, monitor a child's online activity, and issue alerts if the kids attempt to get around restrictions.
Both malicious and adult content can be blocked and specific applications can be prevented from accessing the internet. All the rules and restrictions can be combined into automatic schedules. Safe Search is a feature that can filter out adult content from any search results.
Pricing and Availability
The Firewalla Gold Pro Security Gateway is available to buy now from Firewalla and it's priced at $899.
While the Firewalla Gold Pro is not a cheap option, the company has invested a small fortune in developing the sophisticated software that turns the Firewall Gold Pro into an advanced security system for a network.