QNAP To Secure NAS Environments Using Netgate pfSense

[Julio Urquidi]

QNAP NAS owners will soon be able to easily deploy pre-configured virtual appliances running Netgate's pfSense firewall services.

The collaboration will combine QNAP’s own Virtualization Station virtual switching and Netgate’s open source-based intrusion prevention system, to provide a secure application environment on virtualization-ready x86 QNAP NASes. Future plans for the firewall solution will also address increased throughput, stronger encryption and improved manageability.

The QNAP NAS/Netgate pfSense security solution was recently showcased at CES 2018. However, specific availability was not announced.

 

[SickOfResetting]

wonder if only higher end products will have it enabled or if it will be an across the board update

 

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

so what about the existing firewall in qts? where you can limit login attempts or just flat out block certain ips based on rulesets. is that going to be replaced by pfsense own firewall mechanisms or something?

 

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The collaboration will combine QNAP’s own Virtualization Station virtual switching and Netgate’s open source-based intrusion prevention system, to provide a secure application environment on virtualization-ready x86 QNAP NASes. Future plans for the firewall solution will also address increased throughput, stronger encryption and improved manageability.

As long as the x86 NAS can support 64-bit (pfSense 2.4 is 64 bit only), and going forward, pfSense 2.5 will require AES-NI, which some of the QNAP NAS units do not support.