Firewalla
Protect your network and devices
$199 plus $9.99 shipping FROM Firewalla, firewalla.com FeAtuRes Firewall, device management, parental controls, VPN
Firewalla is a compact and simple device that plugs into your router and protects your connected home from network and internet threats. A firewall detects and blocks external access to your devices, while local network monitoring spots new devices as they connect. It also blocks access to malicious links on all your devices and uses behaviour monitoring to alert you to suspicious apps. Parental controls, such as a one-tap way to disable all social media access for an hour, and forced
safe searching keep your kids away from the worst of the web, while built-in ad-blocking speeds up browsing on all your devices.
Enable Firewalla’s VPN server and you can connect to your home network from anywhere and route to the internet from there. You get the same level of encryption you’d get from a commercial VPN, but without having to pay any subscription.
The tiny cube houses a surprising amount of power: a quad-core 1GHz 64-bit ARM CPU, 1GB DDR RAM and 16GB MicroSD storage, and Ethernet, micro USB and regular USB ports. The firewall’s core features work largely automatically and a simple app helps you manage everything else. Setting up the VPN can prove trickier.
Firewalla may be small, but it packs a powerful security punch, blocking a host of network dangers and giving you plenty of handy extras. Mike WilliAMs