ReaSoft Network Firewall is a new generation corporate gateway firewall which protect the network from external and internal attacks, provides Internet access to users and offers enhanced traffic control features. The program is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises to improve the corporate security and meet the network management needs.

Configure the rules for a user or a group of users determining access to network resources, such as mail, FTP, web servers, etc. With the help of the set rules the user can control what services to let through your firewall, and which ones to keep out as well as what action to take for each connection.

It is possible to configure access policies for each network regardless of its type and parameters of the security policies applied for the other networks. The important feature of ReaSoft Network Firewall is that it allows to configure access to local resources from external networks.

All these rules are about preventing stealing business information or hackers attacks that may turn the computer into a "zombie" and add it to a botnet to send spam, act as a server, or steal personal information.

Besides firewall policy rules, ReaSoft Network Firewall enables to configure traffic usage policy for any network objects or groups. Specificate traffic usage by limiting quotas for any convenient period.

Moreover, ReaSoft Network Firewall permits to monitor the network activity. It controls the established sessions and connections, traffic usage by users and services. System and security events are available to gather information about Firewall activity and system health. In addition, this software will enable you to monitor all the activity within your network in real time.

Here are some key features of "ReaSoft Network Firewall":

Powerful NAT
· A specially developed engine supporting the NAT technology is used to provide secure access to the Internet and any other networks. The NAT mechanism allows you to translate addresses from private networks into one address in a public network when private network clients access the public network. The NAT technology allows you to limit direct access to data in your network. Thus, all attacks from the public network are directed to a safely protected Firewall server, while LAN clients remain unavailable for malicious access.
· The NAT mechanism implemented in the Firewall engine works independently of the client configuration and does not require the installation of some special software.
· More then two years proved the high security and performance of the NAT technology engine developed for ReaSoft Network Firewall.
· The Firewall engine allows clients to work correctly via the FTP protocol in both passive and active modes and in all network relationship modes (NAT or Route).

Firewall Protection
· ReaSoft Network Firewall filters packets on the network level. Each packet going through the server is checked for compliance with access policies. Only packets from allowed connections get into the network. If there is a blocking rule set for a connection, the packet will be blocked. By default, connections that have no access rules specified for them are also blocked. Changes in the access policy are applied right when they are made.
· ReaSoft Network Firewall performs the Stateful Packet Inspection (ACC technology), which allows you to increase the protection against unauthorized access to the company's network.
· The work of the Firewall is based on chains of rules and allows you to configure security policies in the most simple and clear way.

Servers publishing
· The Server Publishing mechanism makes it possible to access servers in the private or perimeter (DMZ) network of the company, such as web servers, mail servers, data servers, and to ensure safe protection against external attacks at the same time. ReaSoft Network Firewall runs as a published server and thus provides an additional protection level. Firewall Redirect Rules are used to publish servers.
· ReaSoft Network Firewall also allows you to redirect connections to other IP addresses or to other TCP/UDP ports. This technology is also known as Mapping.

Traffic usage policy
· ReaSoft Network Firewall allows you to count the traffic used by clients and also to limit its usage with quotas. To be able to count traffic, you need to set a rule where you specify the protocol, the client to count traffic for and client connection destinations.
· When connections going through the Firewall server are processed, traffic will be counted for all rules the connection matches to. If you need to limit traffic for your users, you should use quotas that are specified in traffic usage rules.
· When a traffic usage rule reaches one of the specified quotas, the operation specified in the quota will be performed. You can block the connection or send a notification about exceeding the quota. It is possible to specify any number of quotas for one traffic usage rule.

Real time monitoring
· ReaSoft Network Firewall allows you to monitor the activity of your network in real time. You can view the statistics of traffic usage rules and also current sessions and connections.
· Monitoring connections allows you to control all requests sent to the Firewall server or going through it. It is necessary to monitor connections when you configure and debug firewall policy rules.
· You should monitor sessions in order to monitor all clients that established connections with the server or with resources in other networks.
· The section where you monitor the statistics of traffic usage rules allows you to monitor the statistics of all rules.
· Each client in your network can view the statistics of the traffic usage rules set for it in any web browser. The statistics of only those rules that have a special permission set for them will be available for the client. Also, you can remotely view the statistics of all rules, but you will have to enter your ReaSoft Network Firewall administrator password on a special web page.

Recovery System
· ReaSoft Network Firewall allows you to back up the system configuration. The configuration is saved to a separate XML file that can be recovered in case of failures or damages.
· To ensure higher fault tolerance for the system, ReaSoft Network Firewall allows you to automatically back up the configuration according to schedule. In case the system fails, you can get the system running again within a short period of time.

Authentication
· ReaSoft Network Firewall can authenticate users not only by internal ReaSoft Network Firewall accounts, but also by Active Directory accounts. With Firewall Security Client installed on workstations, users can be automatically authenticated by their Windows login (NTLM) or Firewall login.
· Any Windows login (domainusername, computerusername, username) can be used to authenticate users.


Requirements:

· 300 MHz Pentium II-compatible or faster processor.
· 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or more recommended.
· 20 megabytes (MB) of available hard-disk space for the installation; 1 gigabyte (GB) of disk space for logging recommended.
· Network adapter for communication with the Private network; one additional network adapter, modem, or ISDN adapter for each additional Public of Private network.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial period