Kerio Tech Firewall6 Antivirus control, Transparent support for Active Directory, Email alerts

Chapter 2 Introduction

Antivirus control

WinRoute can perform antivirus check of transmitted files. For this purpose, either the built-in McAfee antivirus or an external antivirus program (e.g. NOD32, AVG, etc.) are available. Antivirus check can be applied to HTTP, FTP, SMTP and POP3 protocols.

Transparent support for Active Directory

If WinRoute is employed in a network using the Active Directory domain, it is not necessary to create local accounts or import users from the domain as Active Di- rectory directory accounts can be used in WinRoute. This option simplifies admin- istration of user accounts, especially for greater number of users.

Email alerts

WinRoute can send email alerts informing users about various events. This function makes firewall administration easier for the administrators since they need not connect to WinRoute frequently to check it through. All sent alerts are saved in a special log file.

User quotas

A limit can be set for transmitted data per each user. This limit can be set for the amount of downloaded or/and uploaded data per day/month. These limits are called quotas. If any quota is exceeded, the connection to the Internet will be blocked for a corresponding user. Email alert can be optionally sent to the user.

Blocking of P2P networks

WinRoute can detect and block so called Peer-to-Peer networks (networks used for sharing of files, such as Kazaa, DirectConnect etc.).

StaR — statistics and reporting

Detailed statistics of the firewall interface (current speed of transmitted data, amount of data transmitted in certain time periods) as well as of individual users (amount of transmitted data, used services, categories of connected Websites, etc.) can be viewed in WinRoute.

Basic statistics are available in the administration program while detailed statistics can be found in the firewall’s web interface.

Kerio VPN — proprietary VPN server and client

WinRoute also provides a proprietary VPN solution which can be applied to the server-to-serverand client-to-servermodes. This VPN solution can perform NAT (even multiple) at both ends. The Kerio VPN Client client software is included in the WinRoute package that can be used for creation of client-to-serverVPN types (connection of remote clients to local networks).

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