NetPilot Remote Key Features

Advanced Firewall

The advanced firewall uses powerful stateful packet inspection techniques. To provide the best security, a firewall must track and control the flow of communications. Unlike rudimentary packet filters that are found in cheap personal firewall products, NetPilot's stateful inspection analyses information flow into and out of a network so that security decisions can be made in real time. It accomplishes this by tracking the state and context of all communications traversing the firewall, even when the connection involves complex protocols. The advanced firewall also offers the flexibility to allocate particular services and define protocol attributes to particular physical ports.

NetPilot's firewall has undergone rigorous independent testing from West Coast Labs and been awarded Checkmark accreditation.

VPN Connectivity

NetPilot Remote, with its accredited Virtual Private Network (VPN) functionality, uses either standard IPSec protocols with 3DES encryption, or OpenVPN with SSL encryption, to form part of an Internet based VPN. Secure VPN tunnels across the Internet can interconnect NetPilots at differing office locations.

In addition, roving sales and support personnel, or home office users, can connect to their central office and share files and emails. NetPilot Remote users can make use of unlimited numbers of OpenVPN SSL clients for remote access.

Controlled High Speed Web Access

NetPilot Remote enables multi-user Internet access through a range of high-speed communications options. It has powerful, yet flexible, control facilities to administer local access of external resources, including user restrictions, web access control, web filters and time controls.

Some groups or individuals may have rights assigned to use only email, or just web browsing. Which websites are accessed by which users can be controlled - ranging from a very restricted set of web addresses with no general browsing capability, to fairly widespread rights, with perhaps the exception of pornographic sites.

Total Email Solution

NetPilot Remote can act as a company-wide email server. For complete flexibility, it can also be as a secure front-end gateway to another internal mail server, such as Microsoft Exchange.

Web Page Caching

To speed up user access, Equiinet has utilises caching. This allows popular websites, pages or parts of pages, to be stored locally in NetPilot Remote and to be viewed subsequently by other users without reconnecting to the Internet, unless the content has changed.

Easy to Install

NetPilot Remote is very straightforward to install and extremely easy-to-use. The network administrator is provided with 'Quick Configuration' mechanisms which are accessed through a browser interface, enabling online connectivity within minutes. Support staff can check the operation of NetPilot Remote remotely and make online changes if necessary.

Ongoing Management

NetPilot Remote monitors and reports on a range of activities including online time, the number of incoming and outgoing emails by user, web usage by time of day and firewall rejects. These reports can be automatically collated and sent as a daily email to a network administrator.

Upgrades and Support

Operating System software updates can be automatically downloaded from the NetPilot upgrade service site, so long as the NetPilot unit has a current Software Upgrade Service subscription in force.

Other NetPilot Models

	NetPilot Remote is a member of a family of products. NetPilot Lite is a small office UTM appliance. NetPilot Plus is aimed at medium-sized organisations with up to 100 PCs requiring fully featured Premium UTM functionality. NetPilot Enterprise products are for larger organisations needing secure and resilient internet access also requiring fully featured Premium UTM functionality.