NEWS

01 08 2012

PacketFence 3.5 released

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 3.5. This is a major release bringing new hardware support, new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use.

What is PacketFence?

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source Network Access Control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set, PacketFence can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks.

PacketFence provides an impressive list of supported features. Among them, there are :

  • Powerful BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) workflows
  • Simple and efficient guests management
  • Multiple enforcement methods with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Compliance checks for computers present on your network
  • Integration with various vulnerability scanners and intrusion detection solutions
  • Bandwidth accounting for all devices

A complete overview of the solution is available from http://www.packetfence.org [External]/

New release!

More information about this release is available in the official release announcement [External] on the PacketFence website.

Getting PacketFence

PacketFence is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the new release from our download page [External] or by getting the sources from the source code repository [External].

Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is available under the Documentation [External] section of the website.

How Can I Help?

PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. Please get involved in our community [External] and consider contributing [External]!

Getting Support

Community [External] or commercial [External] support is available for PacketFence depending on your needs.

Enjoy PacketFence at its finest!

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