CacheGuard Gateway Reviews

The version 2.5 worked. But I couldn't configure the DNS. The family DNS servers didn't work. I tried to set it up for my child. I don't understand how the antivirus and IDS work. I can't see if they are working in the system itself. And with SSH.

Excellent :-)

Excellent and easy to implement web proxy solution! We've implemented this proxy for about 10 of our best clients and gave them the access to the it's web admin interface. They are really happy to be able to manage it by themselves without being a security expert. We recommend this as a remote (in the cloud) or on-premise proxy. It's a worth installing it in a VM and evaluate by yourself!

I implemented cacheguard for one of our clients the last week and it takes me 2 hours only! I give 5 stars for the ease of use but you should be aware that you need basic network skills to implement cacheguard as a transparent gateway into your network. My client needed a firewall and

Reliable, robust and mature project with lots of high availability features to ensure service continuity.

Cacheguard is the best and easy to use transparent proxy I have ever used! Even if there are some constraints in the installation process (requires its own machine), once installed and some basic network configuration is done, it is straightforward to configure. We use it in our company especially to filter malware and also for web caching. The traffic shaping is basic but serves its purpose. Nice integrated solution!

CacheGuard is different from other web security solutions by being bi-directional: it secures web traffic initiated from applications/machines/users placed in trusted zones to Internet (untrusted by default) AND web requests incoming from untrusted zones to your web applications. It offers many security features in the same box such as: firewall (Linux netfilter/iptables), proxy cache (I assume squid), WAF (based on apache/mod_security), traffic shaping (Linux)... CacheGuard is interesting because it has a real CLI (Command Line Interface). You can configure it using an SSH client and/or you can configure it using a navigator (tested Firefox and works fine with it). What I really appreciated in CacheGuard is the notion of “apply” a whole configuration at one time. With this method the integrity of the configuration and compatibility between different saved parameters are verified when you finish configuring the appliance and want to activate them. The disadvantage with CacheGuard is that even though the administration/configuration is straightforward for network/security experts it is not a plug and play solution for the non specialized audience. Very nice project! I recommend it if you are a system/network/security expert and need a unique access point to exchange web traffic from/to Internet to/from your infrastructure.