Golden Technologies has productized their very successful line of firewalls. This is the GT DeadBolt Firewall Platform, and it is the perfect firewall solution for your business. Features include:

Linux Based - Open Source, Open Standards and easily updated and upgraded. Hardened by Golden Technologies.

Stateful Firewall - Super secure and ultra flexible. No limit on interfaces, IP addresses, nodes, etc., transparent filtering, pre-routing, post-routing, NAT and Mangle rules. Web based front end (all platforms), X11 interface (Linux, BSD, Unix or Mac OS X) or SSH access (all platforms). Can be used to build very simple or very, very complex firewall and routing rule sets.

VPN Concentrator - Our VPN concentration is second to none. The GT Deadbolt will terminate IpSec tunnels, PPTP connections and new TLS/SSL OpenVPN (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Clients available) connections that traverse NAT!!.

With OpenVPN TLS/SSL, you can:

• Tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP or TCP port,
  
• Configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm using one or more machines which can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients,
  
• Use all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to protect your private network traffic as it transits the internet,
  
• Use any cipher, key size, or HMAC digest (for datagram integrity checking) supported by the OpenSSL library,
  
• Choose between static-key based conventional encryption or certificate-based public key encryption,
  
• Use static, pre-shared keys or TLS-based dynamic key exchange
  
• Use real-time adaptive link compression and traffic-shaping to manage link bandwidth utilization,
  
• Tunnel networks whose public endpoints are dynamic such as DHCP or dial-in clients,
  
• Tunnel networks through connection-oriented stateful firewalls without having to use explicit firewall rules,
  
• Tunnel networks over NAT
  
• Create secure ethernet bridges using virtual tap devices, and
  control OpenVPN using a GUI on Windows or Mac OS X.

Port Knocking Server - Talk about really cool and functional technology - port knocking is the ability of our firewalls to monitoring incoming connections for a secret combination (knock) of closed ports to be accessed (usually 10 or more) in a certain time frame. Once this secret knock is recognized, the firewall can add any arbitrary firewall rule to allow, say RDP access to an internal server only from the IP that supplied the correct knock for 10 seconds. This allows authorized individuals to access services inside the network if a VPN connection is not available.

Transparent Proxy Server - Web proxy server that works in conjunction with our firewall to log every web request. This is done in "transparent" mode, meaning that it is done automatically, with any end user configuration, and cannot be bypassed. All logs are parsed into a web based reporting system.

Web Content Filter - Worried about what people are surfing while at work? Our Web Content Filter works in conjunction with our Transparent Proxy Server and Firewall. Filters the content of all web pages and only allows proper content to pass. Logs all web site access and which sites were blocked. Weekly blacklist updates available with subscription to Golden Technologies Blacklist Service. Web based configuration for blacklist and whitelist.

Network and Bandwidth Monitoring - Monitor network devices for connections and services and monitor bandwidth on all interfaces (physical and virtual). Web based graphical output of bandwidth utilization and of network health status.

• Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
  
• Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.)
  
• Monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature
  
• Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks
  
• Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
  
• Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or other user-defined method)
  
• Optional escalation of host and service notifications to different contact groups
  
• Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
  
• Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers
  
• External command interface that allows on-the-fly modifications to be made to the monitoring and notification behavior through the use of event handlers, the web interface, and third-party applications
  
• Retention of host and service status across program restarts
  
• Scheduled downtime for suppressing host and service notifications during periods of planned outages
  
• Ability to acknowledge problems via the web interface
  
• Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
  
• Simple authorization scheme that allows you restrict what users can see and do from the web interface
  

Golden Technologies has successfully deployed hundreds of our GT DeadBolt firewalls for Hospitals (HIPAA Compliance), Mental Health Organizations, Banks, Retail operations, Schools, Police Departments, Engineering and Design firms and we use them internally. Give the GT DeadBolt Firewall platform a try, no other firewall platform offers so many options!!