![]() However I also see that it’s creating confusion. Because marketing wise, we would like to be as precise as possible so that people would know what it is for. It's somewhat hard to figure out a way to communicate people that the current product is for “open source firewalls” without using the words “open source”. This way people would know what they will have and what they won’t and will make an informed decision about using / not using it. Though we cannot make Sensei fully open source, I think the best we can do right now is to communicate what Sensei is and what it is not in a straight and open way. Having founded a local open source community () and published some open source tools, I truly understand, appreciate and respect your stance. It’s great to see people loving the solution and spreading the word.Ī free of charge Sensei edition (maybe we should call this freemium edition) is a way of our giving back to the OPNsense community. Then of course, we are looking for market visibility. You can’t believe how much Sensei improved from the day we announced first beta up until this day. Via this initial channel, we learn very much from our users and improve Sensei. In this regard, open source firewalls is a delivery channel for us, though it’s not the complete target market. Why not deliver the product as a plugin instead of yet another full-blown firewall appliance? It’d be cost effective for us and we would than be able to relay this cost advantage for the benefit of our prospective users. We quickly did an integration and voila! The resulting solution (OPNsense + Sensei) was found to be better than many of the current players in the UTM market. Very happy with their current firewalls, they needed several features that we could provide. ![]() The thing we started with open source firewall space is that, it was a request by an MSP who was deploying open source firewalls onto customers and providing support services. 元-L4 firewalls, UTMs all fall into this category. We hope to make Sensei available for any network security equipment / product which needs application classification & web security features. Sensei is the first of two products that we’re going to create for a large market. ![]() Better decision making means better success rates in detecting malign traffic. We believe that better packet visibility means better decision making. Taking this chance, I’d like to give a little bit of background why we started with “open source firewalls”.Īs Sensei team, we believe that we’ve created a powerful packet processing technology. Your comments shed a lot of light as to what needs to be adjusted in the messaging. Free as in “free beer”Īs you’ve correctly pointed out, if there is any misunderstanding, it’s unintentional.
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