PacketFence 1.6.1 review

PacketFence project provides interior worm mitigation and policy enforcement capabilities. PacketFence be placed strategically thr

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: David LaPorte and Kevin Amorin

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PacketFence project provides interior worm mitigation and policy enforcement capabilities.

PacketFence be placed strategically throughout the enterprise to compartmentalize networks that may present a threat to valuable resources: VPN concentrators, client and guest networks, extranet connectivity points, etc.

PacketFence is designed to operate in heterogeneous where users are either unable or unwilling, without assistance, to secure their systems properly.

Here are some key features of "PacketFence":
Open Architecture-Based on unmodified open-source components, PacketFence requires no software to be installed on client systems.
Registration-Registration/authentication can be enforced before admission to the network is granted. Additionally successul completion of a vulnerability scan and acceptance of an AUP can also be required
Detection-detection of worms, trojans, etc by behavorial or signature-based means
Remediation-Context-sensitive information provided to user for self-directed remediation.

Requirements:
perl-suidperl
httpd
mod_ssl
php

What's New in This Release:
fixed admin->remediation page (0000087)
gateway no longer shows up in the Probable Static report
added additional DHCP fingerprints (thanks to Eric Kollmann)
fixed x-axis of monthly graphs
added sanity_check warning for large internal IP space
added backticks to "trigger" table to allow for proper import
set default action for IRC violation to "trap,email,log"
corrected redirect "looping" bug
registration of PIDs with spaces should now work
added "session" as an registration.expire_mode
added session_expire parameter
added sessionauth configuration template
added Snort 2.6 warning to installer.pl
fixed double count of statics in os/osclass report totals
moved cleanup thread in pfmon after listen_arp
added GUI bug reporting
fixed bogus remediation reference
fixed unknownprint submission