Welcome to Qbik, the original home of WinGate software
Since 1995 Qbik has been developing
sophisticated & user friendly software specialising in Internet connectivity
and security. Our products allow users to manage their Internet connectivity
(WinGate),
connect remote offices together (WinGate
VPN), and combat network security issues (NetPatrol).
WinGate Proxy Server
WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and
communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications
needs of today's Internet-connected businesses.WinGate's comprehensive range of
license options provides you the flexibility to choose the features and
capabilities that best match your needs and budget, whether you need to manage
an enterprise, small business, or home network.
Key Functions
WinGate allows you to:
Provide secure and managed Internet access for your
entire network via a single or multiple shared internet connections
Enforce advanced and flexible access-control and
acceptable use policies
Monitor usage in real time, and maintain per-user and
per-service audit logs.
Stop viruses, spam and inappropriate content from
entering your network
Provide comprehensive internet and intranet email
services.
Protect your servers from internal or external
threats.
Improve network performance and responsiveness with
web and DNS caching
Ease administration burdens on your internal
networks.
Key Benefits
Using WinGate to actively manage the use of your Internet
and network resources can provide many benefits, including:
Improved Employee productivity
Minimised time and resources required to maintain
network integrity
Reduced Employer liabilities
Improved efficiency, responsiveness and reliability
of network access
Easy Internet Sharing
WinGate will share most types of Internet connections
effortlessly, allowing multiple users to simultaneously surf the web, retrieve
their email, or chat with online messaging, as if they were directly connected
to the Internet. Whether it is a simple dialup modem or hi tech broadband
solution, WinGate can help to make the most out of the connection. WinGate will
handle requests from a wide variety of Web applications and Internet protocols,
such as Web browsers, Messaging software, FTP and SSL. WinGate also supports
DirectPlay Internet games and Real Time Streaming Audio/Video.
Control Internet Access
With WinGate's user database and policies, parents and
administrators alike can limit and control users access to the web. Logging,
auditing, and a real time activity and history viewer - detailed records of user
activities can be easily examined. This makes WinGate an ideal choice for
Internet cafes and network administrators who work in environments where
Internet access needs to be monitored closely.
Built-in Security
WinGate comes complete with a built in firewall to ensure
that each Internet connection is kept safe from attacks by hackers and intruders
from the Internet. Your network safety can be further enhanced with optional
plug-in components, available seperately, which will scan incoming data for
viruses, or filter out inappropriate content. This gives peace of mind to both
parents and network administrators, so that you can be sure that your family or
co-workers are using the Internet appropriately.
Read how WinGate
has helped some of the 600,000 + registered users to make the most out of their
Internet connection.
WinGate v6 has three different types of license:
Standard, Professional and Enterprise. There are different
features included in each of these different license types. Furthermore, since
it is possible to activate a previous-version WinGate license with WinGate v6,
it is possible that some installations may have further limitations on
functionality. Finally, some features are only available on certain operating
systems.
The table below indicates the minimum license and
OS you would require for access to a certain feature. All other features are
available in all versions and types of WinGate license. Where no OS is
specified, the feature is available on all Windows operating systems.
Function
Ver
Std
Pro
Ent
ENS (including firewall
and NAT)
4
WinGate mail server
(basic)
5
Firewall black hole
list
5
IMAP 4 Server
6
WinGate mail server
(pop3 collection and queue management)
6
Remote GateKeeper
access
4
Telnet proxy command
shell
4
Remote database /
Domain controller or Active directory access
5
Remote command shell
(cmd.exe through GateKeeper)
6
WWW Proxy support for
NTLM authentication
6
Bandwidth control
6
DMZ
6
WinGate VPN
6
Centralised
configuration in Winsock Redirector service
6
Multi-user IP (Terminal
services / Citrix) support
6
Advanced service SSL
binding support (SSL per binding policy)
6
ARP
responder
6
WinGate VPN
Ever caught yourself working late at the office thinking "if only I
could access my work machine from home I would be there now?" Ever been
on the road with your laptop wishing you could access company files, even print
out documents on your company printer? Do you have a need to securely transfer
files from one place to another, without people having to learn how to use
complex file transfer applications?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you could be in need of a
Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution. VPN solutions have been available for
some time, but up until now, you had to be a networking genius to make it work.
Now there is a VPN solution that anyone can use.
When we were designing WinGate VPN, we looked around at a number of other
products. Most were very difficult even for us to set up, let alone someone who
isn't a network expert. We decided that most of the configuration of a VPN
shouldn't have to be such a burden, and should be done automatically. Most
people just want the thing to actually work, and be able to trust it. Yet they
don't want to sacrifice flexibility or features either.
In a very short space of time, WinGate VPN allows you to connect your networks
together, whether they be office LANs, or a home PC, or a laptop on a modem, so
they can share data safely and securely. Using state of the art security
protocols and tunnelling technologies, WinGate VPN will make sure that you can
participate in a remote network, almost as easily as if you were plugged into
the same hub. Depending on individual set up, users can access common local area
networking features such as file and directory exploring, mapping drives and
even participation in LAN games.
Easy to set up
Whether you are running WinGate VPN as a stand-alone system, or integrated
with an existing WinGate installation, WinGate VPN is one of the most easily
configured virtual private networking products available today. Set up in a
matter of minutes, WinGate VPN can utilize most Internet connection types such
as modems, wireless, ISDN or ADSL to create a secure private networking
environment across the Internet. It will even work through your corporate
firewall or NAT/DSL router or both!
Built-in Firewall
Since you will be connected to the Internet, WinGate VPN also comes with a
built-in firewall to protect each end-point of the VPN. WinGate VPN also comes
complete with real time monitoring, showing details of all VPN connections that
are in progress, and the current status of the VPN tunnels. With a point and
click style Network window, administrators have total control over each part of
the communication process, and can easily check that the VPN is operating
properly at a moments notice.
Extra support for MS Networking
WinGate VPN makes it easier to browse using network neighbourhood across your
VPN without having to set up and configure expensive MS server platforms or WINS
servers. UDP relay broadcasting makes all your networks look like they are on
the same physical network segment.
Industrial-Strength Security
WinGate VPN uses industry-standard and trusted SSL connections and X.509
certificates to connect and validate your VPN users. It uses 128 bit
Twofish-encrypted data tunnels to provide the security and speed you want. With
various licensing options for different networking structures WinGate offers the
flexibility you require.
WinGate VPN is ideal for:
Companies who need secure inter-office networking.
Home users who wish to set up a secure peer-to-peer connection between
remote PCs.
Home or Mobile workers, who require a secure environment to connect to
the office from remote locations.
PureSight
Administrators and parents are often faced with the task of protecting
workers or family members from inappropriate web content.
Parents are increasingly concerned with the amount of explicit sexually-related
material that can be found almost anywhere on the Internet, and employers are
worried about workers access to non-work-related sites.
PureSight for WinGate is a content classification system. It plugs into
WinGate's WWW proxy to gain access to web data being downloaded. Using a
licensed artificial intelligence technology from PureSight Inc, PureSight for
WinGate gives parents and administrators the ability to block sites based on
site category.
PureSight for WinGate is ideal for:
Network administrators tasked with controlling workers Internet use.
Concerned parents who wish to manage the web content their family may
access
Kaspersky AntiVirus for WinGate
One of the greatest threats facing Internet users today is the risk of having
their systems compromised by a virus. Whether it be a hidden Trojan that grants
remote attackers access to your systems, or a simple virus that can play havoc
with data and applications on a user's workstation, the threat of viruses can no
longer be ignored by anyone wanting to access the Internet.
If you are using WinGate as your Internet gateway, your virus worries can be
laid to rest. WinGate has support for various optional Antivirus plugins,
including market leading antivirus experts Kaspersky Labs.
With WinGate controlling all data coming from the Internet to your network, it
can be set to scan specific data streams for viruses or other types of malicious
data. This includes any mail or attachments that are delivered through WinGate's
mail server, files downloaded through FTP, or even web page content that users
are viewing.
With WinGate's built in Quarantine, administrators are able to safely contain
and isolate a captured virus, ensuring the safety of the network from a virus
outbreak. With the quarantine viewer they can easily see all details of the
infection, such as the type of virus, the source of the infection (including the
user responsible), and what type of activity they were performing when the virus
was encountered.
Using WinGate plus Kaspersky AntiVirus for WinGate provides a powerful yet
uncomplicated centrally-managed solution for keeping your entire computer
network free from virus infections.
NetPatrol
Hack attempts and other attacks from the Internet
are becoming increasingly complex and better-concealed. As a result many common
firewall solutions are simply not sophisticated enough to detect them. Realising
the need for a packet-level network traffic monitoring system that can detect
these types of malicious activities, Qbik embarked on a development effort to
provide a tool for network administrators aimed at just this need. Qbik is now
proud to provide its solution - called NetPatrol.
Intrusion detection system
From the experience gained with WinGate - Qbik's
comprehensive proxy server solution, Qbik realised that a logical and necessary
complement would be an intrusion detection system that could monitor, analyse
and report on suspicious network and Internet traffic behaviour to and from the
WinGate Internet server. Currently NetPatrol operates as a stand alone
monitoring system, providing relevant traffic information, and raising alerts
about suspected network intrusions or attacks.
Monitor a single machine or an entire network
NetPatrol can be set to monitor all network
connections on the machine on which it is installed, and provide a detailed
report on network data that is addressed to those interfaces. Or it can be set
to "promiscuous mode" where it will monitor all network traffic on all the
ethernet segments that the NetPatrol machine is connected to.
With a "danger level" monitor, NetPatrol will
attempt to gauge the behaviour and severity of the data activity, and respond
accordingly. It can be configured to handle certain types of network behaviours
based on a set of rules that administrators are able to configure depending on
their security reporting requirements.
Scalable Modular system
NetPatrol is built on top of installable modules,
with certain tasks assigned to each. Because of this, NetPatrol can be used as a
distributed IDS system, allowing for higher performance and better ratio of
handled/lost packets on highly-loaded networks.
Session reconstruction and investigation tools
All IP Traffic can be logged and sessions
reconstructed. A graph of attacks level indicates current threat level. From the
main display, Source or Destination computers can be investigated.
Port Monitor tool allows you to see what your
applications are doing
Also included is the Qbik PortList tool, allowing
easy real-time monitoring of all connections to and from the local machine and
the processes responsible. Connections and processes can be easily terminated
from the main screen. Even system services can be terminated.