Configuring your own Cyberoam

Hey guyz,

In our college we have been using Cyberoam to control the network traffic, which is actually an intermediate between Internal Network( i.e. SICSR network) and the outside world (Internet). It basically acts as a firewall to prevent attacks from intruders, port blocking, web filtering, and many more security functions..

Today, we are not going to talk about Cyberoam, but rather on how to create a server which works like cyberoam.

Security in every organisation is important as well as monitoring the incoming and outgoing traffic is equally essential for optimum utilization of bandwidth. On the other hand, filtering viruses at the door of your network is also important. There are many other features which you might want to have in your organisation. To implement all this security enabled functions, we need a server called as UTM (Unified Threat Management). UTM is basically responsible for providing all of the above services to the internal network.

There are lots of UTM distros available over Internet. They are actually OS, so you might need a virtual machine to test it..

Architecture of UTM:















Following are the UTM distros:

1. IPCop
2. Untangle
3. Smoothwall
4. eBox

Instead of using the above distros, you can configure UTM on the other Linux Distros ( fedora, ubuntu, etc)

Now what a UTM distros consist of :

• Firewall
• Web Filter
• Antivirus
• Spam Blocker
• Ad Blocker
• Port Forwarding
• Web Proxy
• Logs

Probably i might have missed some.

If you have any doubts, please revert back to me..

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Shwet Solanki
"When you ask, You get more OPTIONS - Shwet"