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The self-hosted WatchGuard Firebox alternative

Cloud-managed network security platform and appliance offering unified threat management: stateful firewalling, VPN, intrusion prevention, web/content filtering, application control and malware protection, with centralized management and reporting for business networks.

Alternatives to WatchGuard Firebox

OPNsense is an open source FreeBSD-based firewall and routing platform with a web GUI, API, VPN, traffic shaping, and security features for networks and homelabs.

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What replacing WatchGuard Firebox actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: BSD-2-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Core Network Services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).

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