What is the source for the malware etc. signatures?
And how often will those be upgraded (weekly? daily? in real-time?)
And what happens if Firewalla the company goes bust? Or decides not to offer new threat profiles / signatures?
I am feeling a bit burned by Netgear since they did away with support for their UTM5 and even though they will let you download the latest firmware from their web site they won't let you upload it to the UTM5 which seems really poor treatment of customers... (The upload feature is still in the management menu but the upload fails with a message that you need to buy a new maintenance agreement, which they won't sell you.)
One of the attractive features of the Firewalla is no subscription fee, but before I buy I wanted to be sure we would be getting new signatures and updates.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I was more looking for something like is there a central repository on the Internet like CERN where these are stored/aggregated, or do you monitor a bunch of different sources like Apple, Microsoft, Norton, etc. and aggregate the signatures yourself?
And have you automated the process so if for example CERN publishes a new threat, you scan their "list" every X minutes/hours and push a new signatures list to the Firewalla within Y minutes?
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It really depends on the signature and the source of the signature. Most are daily, and some are API based (instantly), some are hourly. There are some are calculated by us ... which has a life of its own.
We did answer someone question a while back
https://www.reddit.com/r/firewalla/comments/i3s6f5/how_does_firewalla_make_money/
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