{"id":429,"date":"2007-05-31T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/security-in-the-palm-of-your-hand\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T14:40:17","slug":"security-in-the-palm-of-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/security-in-the-palm-of-your-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Security in the palm of your hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things tend to appear in clumps and for whatever reason, this week it’s interesting Linux based appliances<\/a>. A colleague forwarded along information on this interesting device, the Pico Pro<\/a>, from Yoggie Security Solutions<\/a> yesterday. Effectively, this is a USB device with an onboard processor in addition to the expected storage that acts as a personal security device. The images below show the internals of the device:
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\nThis device has many different security applications working in concert to protect your computer: firewall, vpn, network address translation, intrusion prevention and detection, proxies (ftp, http, smtp, and pop), anti-* (spam, spyware, and phishing), URL CAT, and coordinating frameworks for the software. It’s effectively a Linux-based security appliance on a USB fob. Pretty cool.
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\nWhile I understand that Yoggie<\/a> was trying for a specific look and form factor, I do take issue with the fact that the device is invasive as it replaces low-level communications drivers in the operating system with Yoggie drivers that divert traffic to the device. Subsequently, the device only functions with Windows devices at this time. I would have much preferred an inline device that creates a private network with no invasive software meaning it’s cross platform to start. In fairness, it looks like Yoggie has a SOHO device<\/a> that does such a thing.
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\nYou might expect these things to cost an arm and a leg, but they start quite reasonably priced at $179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things tend to appear in clumps and for whatever reason, this week it’s interesting Linux based appliances. A colleague forwarded along information on this interesting device, the Pico Pro, from Yoggie Security Solutions yesterday. Effectively, this is a USB device with an onboard processor in addition to the expected storage that acts as a personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}