uShield
Cyber Security
Machine identities now outnumber human ones by ratios reported anywhere from 45:1 to more than 100:1, and most have never been rotated. Your cloud perimeter is not a network edge. It is a token.
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For two decades, encryption protected data at rest and in transit and then handed it, fully readable, to whoever operated the machine. Confidential computing closes that gap — and in 2026 enterprises started asking for it by name.
Read MoreStill the industry standard for packet analysis. In 2026, it is primarily used for troubleshooting TLS 1.3/ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) handshakes and analyzing traffic patterns even when the payload is fully encrypted.
The quintessential discovery tool. In modern workflows, Nmap is often integrated into automated CI/CD pipelines to ensure no 'Shadow IoT' or unauthorized services appear during new deployments.
A powerful network security monitor that goes beyond simple packet capture. It converts traffic into high-level events, making it indispensable for AI-driven threat hunting and long-term network forensics.
A hardened, open-source firewall. Its 26.7 release integrates the Zenarmor plugin for AI-based web filtering, and current releases offer a recommended set of post-quantum key exchanges for VPN tunnels.
The leader in 'Zero Config' mesh VPNs. It uses WireGuard to create a flat, secure network across all devices, utilizing identity providers (SSO) to enforce strict, per-user access policies.
A fully open-source alternative to Tailscale. NetBird combines a mesh VPN with a built-in access control engine, allowing you to define exactly which devices can talk to each other based on tags.
The gold standard for anonymity. In 2026, Mullvad remains a favorite for its 'account-number-only' system and early adoption of quantum-resistant tunnels for all users.
Swiss-based security with a focus on 'Secure Core' architecture. It now includes advanced anti-censorship features and network-level ad/malware blocking that operates before data hits your device.
Network-wide DNS filtering over DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) that blocks tracking and malware at the source, before a device connects to a malicious domain. NextDNS is the hosted service linked here; AdGuard Home is a self-hosted alternative with similar filtering.
The baseline for modern wireless. Its 'Simultaneous Authentication of Equals' (SAE) handshake defeats offline dictionary attacks on captured traffic, so a recorded session cannot be cracked offline; a weak passphrase is still guessable through online attempts.
A high-performance open-source IDS/IPS and network security monitor maintained by the Open Information Security Foundation. It inspects traffic against signature and protocol rules, logs flows and alerts, and can drop malicious traffic inline.
Cloudflare Access puts self-hosted and SaaS applications behind a per-request identity check instead of a VPN, and Gateway filters DNS and HTTP traffic against policy. The free plan covers up to 50 users with device posture checks and identity-provider integration; it carries no uptime SLA and keeps 24 hours of logs.
Certificate-based access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases and web apps, replacing bastion hosts and standing keys with short-lived certificates issued only after an identity check. The open-source edition covers the core access plane; device trust and access requests are commercial features.
An identity-aware access proxy that authenticates requests to internal applications instead of trusting the network they arrive from. Routes and policies are defined as configuration, so each rule is reviewed and versioned like code.