Free Firewall Home Edition

Overview

Our Free Home Use Firewall is a fully equipped software version of the Sophos Firewall, available at no cost for home users – no strings attached. Features full protection for your home network, including anti-malware, web security and URL filtering, application control, IPS, traffic shaping, VPN, reporting and monitoring, and much more.

NOTE: The Sophos Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner!

Features

• Increase your Internet Bandwidth - You can make easy use of traffic shaping to prioritize application traffic over your internet connection and even subscribe to multiple ISP connections to get more bandwidth or resiliency in the event of an outage with one of them.
• Monitor and control family web surfing - Use Web Filtering to stop sites from infecting you with viruses and spyware, keep your children from surfing to bad sites, and get full reporting on the activity in your home. Also setup access schedules or usage quotas for family members who may be wasting too much time online.
• Access your home network from anywhere – Use VPN to access your network remotely from anywhere in the world.
• Stop Viruses - Dual AV scanning engines stop viruses in file downloads, email attachments, and embedded in web sites. Sophos catches them at the gateway, before they can get in to assault your computers.
• And a lot more...

What you need

• Intel compatible computer with dual network interfaces. (Any previous OS or files on the computer will be overwritten when installing the Sophos Firewall Home Edition)
• Home Edition is limited to 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM. The computer can have more than this, but Sophos Firewall Home Edition will not be able to utilize it.