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Welcome to the Sensei (ZENARMOR) User Guide

About#

Sensei (ZENARMOR) OPNsense Plugin extends the capabilities of this popular open-source firewall.

Fully integrated into the OPNsense Web User Interface; Sensei (ZENARMOR) basically upgrades OPNsense into a Next Generation Firewall.

If you need features like Policy based Application Control, Web Filtering, Real-time Cloud Threat Intelligence, Advanced Network Analytics, and User/Group based filtering; Sensei (ZENARMOR) provides these features and more.

Technology#

The underlying technology behind the product is a very light-weight yet powerful packet inspection core that can provide a wide variety of enterprise-grade network security functions.

Unique Appliance-free Technology#

Lightweight and powerful appliance-free technology allows organizations to launch instant firewalls on demand and easily secure environments as small as home networks or scale to multi-cloud deployments. It's as easy as launching an application.

Packet inspection core is powerful enough to protect against encrypted threats while also being so lightweight and nimble that it can even fit in very resource-constrained environments.

Zero-latency Security Stack#

Deploy zero-latency security without backhauling data packets back and forth between POPs and datacenters.

Sensei (ZENARMOR)’s single-pass architecture processes packets once and for all security controls.

The same security stack runs wherever deployed for an unprecedented level of consistency when applying security policies.

Deploy Anywhere, Rule from the Cloud#

Inspect locally, analyze and manage centrally.

Cloud-based management provides control for all policies and network deployments.

Design policies independent of locations and devices and enforce them across all IT environments.

Aggregate and visualize all security telemetry from a single pane of glass. Start from an enterprise-level view and drill down to per-connection details.

Next-generation Firewall Features#

  1. Application Control
  2. Cloud Application Control (Web 2.0 Controls)
  3. Web Filtering and Security
  4. Advanced Network Analytics
  5. Real-time Cloud Threat Intelligence based blocking
  6. Cloud Centralized management & reporting
  7. Encrypted Threats Prevention (All-ports full TLS Inspection (for every TCP port, not just HTTPS) *Coming soon)
  8. User-based Filtering and Reporting
  9. Active Directory Integration
  10. Policy based filtering and QoS
  11. Application / Web category based Traffic Shaping and Prioritization

Supported Platforms#

Sensei (ZENARMOR) is currently available for:

Sensei (ZENARMOR) can deploy onto any Cloud environments either as a gateway or on a per-server basis.

Editions#

Sensei (ZENARMOR) offers a Free Edition and three paid subscription plans depending on your needs and budget:

Free Edition#

The Free Edition is free of charge.

Paid Editions#

The following paid subscriptions provide a comprehensive set of next-generation firewall features:

  • Home
  • SOHO
  • Business

You can purchase a subscription through Sunny Valley Networks Cloud Portal or through one of our authorized partners.

For a complete feature comparison see: Subscription Plans.