Decades-proven protection. Modern features.
VectorLogic firewalls run a hardened, vetted firewall and routing stack with a public security record going back decades. The features below are the controls that actually keep networks safe in 2026 — not a marketing list, the working capabilities your network gets the day the appliance comes online.
Battle-tested where it counts.
The firewall stack underneath every VectorLogic appliance comes from a mature open-source security lineage used in serious production networks around the world. It is not new. It does not need to be. It needs to be stable, inspectable, patched quickly, and hardened by people who know what they are doing.
Two decades of public security review
The platform benefits from public scrutiny, steady maintenance, and a security community that finds and fixes weaknesses instead of hiding them behind a black box.
No vendor lock-in
The firewall does not depend on a fragile proprietary appliance model. The underlying stack is open, portable, and built around standards that survive vendor churn.
Tuned and hardened by VectorLogic
Out of the box it is a strong default. We add the tuning, the policy templates, the integrations, and the watching layer that makes it production-ready for SMBs.
Core firewall capabilities
Stateful inspection
Tracks every connection state, drops anything that does not belong. The foundation under everything else.
Deep packet inspection
Looks past the headers into the actual content of traffic. Catches things stateful alone never would.
NAT & port forwarding
Translate between internal addresses and the public internet. Forward specific ports to specific services where you need to.
Per-rule access control
Allow or deny by source, destination, port, protocol, time of day, user. Granular without being painful to manage.
VPN & remote access
Site-to-site VPN
Connect multiple offices into one private network over the public internet. IPsec and WireGuard supported, multiple tunnels per device.
Remote-user VPN
Secure remote access for staff working from home or on the road. Modern VPN protocols, MFA-ready, no clunky client.
Zero-trust ready
Conditional access policies based on user, device, posture, and location. The modern alternative to flat-network VPN.
MFA enforcement
Require multi-factor authentication on remote access. Required by every modern cyber-insurance carrier on renewal.
Threat protection & intrusion prevention
IDS / IPS engine
Intrusion detection and prevention against known-bad signatures and behavioral patterns. Updated continuously by the watching layer.
Anti-malware at the gateway
Inspect downloaded files for known malware signatures before they reach the endpoint. Catches the obvious stuff fast.
Geo-blocking
Block traffic from countries you do not do business with. Cuts off a huge percentage of background internet noise instantly.
Threat intelligence feeds
Block known-bad IPs, domains, and signatures from continuously-updated threat intelligence sources, automatically.
Traffic shaping & content control
Traffic shaping / QoS
Prioritize the traffic that matters — voice calls, AMS sync, carrier portals — over the traffic that does not. Smooth in real-world load.
Content / web filtering
Block malicious sites, gambling, adult content, or whatever your acceptable-use policy says. Categorized, updated automatically.
DNS filtering
Block bad domains at the lookup level. Stops phishing and malware that depend on a domain getting resolved before damage starts.
SMTP relay filtering
Inspect outbound email for malicious attachments and known-bad destinations. Catches compromised endpoints sending out phishing.
Guest networks & segmentation
Captive portal
Guest WiFi with a branded landing page, terms acceptance, and time-limited access. Perfect for waiting rooms and lobbies.
VLAN segmentation
Separate guest traffic from staff, IoT from servers, kiosks from the AMS. Cuts the blast radius of a single compromised device.
Bandwidth limiting per VLAN
Cap how much guest WiFi can consume so it never starves the staff network during business hours.
Inter-VLAN firewall rules
Restrict which segments can talk to which. Default-deny between zones, opening ports only where actually needed.
Visibility, logging & reporting
Real-time traffic dashboard
See what your network is doing right now. Top talkers, top destinations, top blocked threats. Useful, not overwhelming.
Audit-grade logging
Every change, every connection, every blocked threat is logged with timestamps. Logs ship to secure storage automatically.
Alerting & notification
Alerts go to the watching team first — you only hear about it when something needs your attention. No alert fatigue.
Compliance-ready reports
Quarterly reports written in plain English — ready for your auditor, your insurer, or your board.
Capabilities you can layer in.
Beyond the core feature set, the stack supports a mature ecosystem of optional add-ons. We pre-vet which ones are production-ready and which are still in proof-of-concept territory — you get the proven ones, not the experimental shelf.
SSL inspection
Inspect encrypted traffic for threats, with policy controls for privacy-sensitive categories like banking and healthcare.
Application identification
Identify and control by application, not just port. “Block Dropbox” without breaking everything else on port 443.
BGP / dynamic routing
Multi-site mesh networks with automatic failover routes. Useful when you outgrow simple site-to-site VPN.
Multi-WAN load balancing
Beyond simple failover — intelligent load distribution across multiple ISPs based on latency and packet loss.
SD-WAN
Software-defined WAN orchestration across sites. Useful for multi-location agencies and growing organizations.
Reverse proxy / WAF
Web application firewall for any externally-facing service. Common for agency portals and customer-facing tools.
RADIUS / LDAP integration
Tie firewall authentication to Active Directory, Entra ID, or any RADIUS source. One identity, one set of policies.
SIEM integration
Forward firewall logs to your security information and event management tool of choice for centralized visibility.
Features are nothing without watching.
Every feature on this page is available in the underlying stack today. Most security products stop there — they hand you a sophisticated tool and walk away. We do the opposite. The features are the floor, not the ceiling. The real product is the watching layer that keeps every feature tuned, every signature current, every log reviewed by US-based engineers.
Speed of automation. Judgment of expertise. The same engineering standard, every shift.
The capabilities are waiting. Plug in.
Every feature on this page is on every appliance from V-2 to V-Pro — the difference between models is throughput, not capability. Tell us about your network and we will recommend the model and watching tier that fits.