Foundation Release:

• Kernel now based on Latest FreeBSD 6.2 engine
• Support for latest hardware, improved network card support
• Upgraded/faster web proxy service
• Improved Intrusion detection service
• https support
• Improved VPN failover support
• minor fixes and improvements.
• Note: Minimum of 64 MB required. (128MB or more recommended)
  
  

Feature Release:

• Support for new Failover Service allows installation of two BizGuardian firewalls to provide automatic failover on firewall, network, or ISP failure. Read More....
• minor fixes and improvements.
• Support for some new network cards
• Ability to set multiple IP address on LAN interface
• VPN failover support if using two BizGuardian firewalls
• Intrusion engine updated

Maintenance Release:

• minor fixes and improvements.
• support for newer gigabit cards
• Java applet fixes

Major new Release including the following:

• New Bandwidth (QoS) module, provides ability to define virtual pipes and assign various types of traffic to the pipes.
• Real time Graphical display of Bandwidth rules.
• Radius Server support for PPTP accounts.
• Reverse NAT service (enables loop back of firewall forwarded ports, no longer are required to setup a local dns)
• New Intrusion rules.
• Ability to add your own custom Intrusion rules the intrusion detection engine.
• Automatic Intrusion rule updates
• Time zone and NTP time server synchronization.
• Performance improvements to stateful inspection engine.
• Webadmin interface now supports Firefox browsers
• Ability to specify ICMP types in security rules
• Terminal server security wizard.
• Updated webcache engine.

Maintenance Release:

• minor fixes and improvements.
• Updated IDS rules

Major new Release including the following:

• Performance improvements, new network drivers, scales to thousands of users.
• 3rd Network Card support. - True DMZ and Advanced security rules. (Simply plug in a 3rd network card at any time, no reinstall required).
• Universal Plug and Play Service - Enables full video/voice support through firewall with UPnP products like MSN messenger.
• New Web Cache engine.
• New version of Intrusion detection engine.
• New Intrusion detection rules.
• Faster, cleaner Web Administration tool.
• IPSec VPN includes IKE compatibility mode to allow IPsec VPN tunnels to other IPsec devices.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

SP2 Maintenance Release including the following:

• New version of Intrusion detection engine
• New Intrusion detection rules
• Remote Logging feature - send all firewall logs to a remote workstation in realtime (syslogd compatible)
• A few chart bugs fixed
• Changes to Forwarding rules now take effect imediately (no need to restart services)
• Connection log better displays direction of the attempted connection
• ARP display
• Other minor fixes

• Web cache. Transparently configured.
• Content filtering of hundreds of thousands of sites on various categories, using free content lists updated weekly.
• Create your own content lists for allowing or blocking sites
• Ability to define user classes and assign them to blocking lists
• Block or allow certain sites during various times of the day
• Report top web sites visited down to the workstation level.
• Dynamic security changes (no service restart required).
• Export and Import of configuration/policies via web browser
• Upgraded to FreeBSD 4.6.2 kernel.

• Upgraded FreeBSD kernel 4.5 taking advantages of the latest TCP/IP performance enhancements.
• Better Faster Intrusion detection module, which includes automatic blocking of Code Red Virus, Nimda and others.
• Private DNS Server.
• SNMP Agent. (secure).
• Graphical Reporting module. Point and click/zoom to many kinds of traffic reports down to the individual ip address.
• Real Time Top Users display. Quickly find out who is consuming your network bandwidth.
• Enhanced PPTP Features: One Time passwords, Monitor/Display current VPN clients, account lockout policies, optional pre assigned IP address per account and more.
• Improved Status page, with quick view of connected Branch VPN's and remote clients.
• New Wizards for quick configuration of rules to support: Citrix, SMTP, DNS and more.
• Ability to exclude hosts from Intrusion detection.