ICS Cube Product Review
This post is regarding ICS Cube product review. ICS Cube is an internet gateway and UTM solution. The aim of ICS Cube is to secure your network externally and internally from threats that may hit your network. ICS Cube can help small and medium size businesses to secure, monitor and control traffic for their corporate network.
I have tested the product and I am very pleased with it. It is really easy to setup and configure it based on your needs. The features that includes are more than what you expect and allows you to perform you job without a lot of hassle.
You can download and test the fully functional version of ICS Cube using the link below:
Let’s see the features of ICS Cube and what we can do with them.
ICS Cube Features
- Internet Gateway
- Easy Control
- Network Visibility
- UTM
- Access Control
- Remote Management
- Other Pre-installed Apps
We will briefly discuss them later
System Requirments
| Users | CPU | HDD | RAM |
| 10-50 users | Intel Celeron N3150 2.16GHz | 320 Gb SATA | 4 Gb |
| 50-150 users | Intel Core i3 3240 Processor 2-Cores 3.40 GHz | 500 Gb SATA | 8 Gb |
| 150 users | Intel Core i7 3.06 GHz | 1 Tb | 16 GB |
As you can see above the system requirements are low. There is no need to spend a lot of money to have such a setup if this will be a physical machine.
ICS Cube can be installed on a physical machine or as a VM. You can install it in using VMware Workstation and ESXi, Hyper-V or VirtualBox
As there are so many features with a lot of settings for each one, I am not able to go into so much detail about every one of them. We will see them briefly and if you have any more questions, I might be able to help you or you can use their documentation or their really helpful support to provide you answers regarding your queries.
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Internet Gateway
Under Internet Gateway we can find the below:
- Routing
- Web Proxy
- DNS Server
- DHCP Server
- Windows Network Integration
- Tunneling
- Multicast Proxy
By using ICS Cube, you can set your own custom routes in order to meet the requirements of your network setup. ICS Cube provides you with a Web Proxy, DNS, and DCHP servers which eliminates the need of having separate servers to perform these tasks. You also able to setup your own tunnels, in order to connect remote offices and branches. It integrates well with your Active Directory in order to import your users and avoid creating separate accounts for authentication.
Easy Control
- Remote Office Management
- Hardware Resources Control
- Web Console
- Remote Assistance
ICS Cube provides you with a lot of services. Most of the times solutions with so many services provide you also with a very complex user interface. ICS Cube allows you to manage all the services that it provides through an easy and user friendly web interface.
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Network Visibility
- Internet Traffic Monitoring
- Internet Traffic Analysis
- Netflow Integration
Many times, monitoring of our network and analysis of our traffic needs an extra solution to be implemented and connection for the separate solution to our gateway devices. ICS Cube provide you also solution for network visibility and report without any extra effort and deployment of other solutions with might include extra costs. ICS Cube monitors your internet traffic and provides you analysis and has a Netflow integration. Based on this analysis you will be able to take decisions on changes that you might want to perform on your network.
UTM
- Network Firewall
- Intrusion Prevention System
- Virtual Private Network
- Web Content Filter
- Flow Antivirus
- Mail Antivirus
- Anti-spam
- Data Loss Prevention
- Web Application Firewall
- DMZ
Everything you want for your gateway. A full implementation of a UTM firewall that will help you out to secure your network from different threats. No need to have multiple systems to secure your network from various threat. With ICS Cube you are able to implement a full security solution for the gateway of your network.
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Access Control
- User Authentication
- User and Group Management
- Network Traffic Control
- Traffic Limits
- Traffic Classes
- Network Connection Limits
As we said before with ICS Cube you are able to monitor and analyse your network traffic. Do you want to apply limits on and control for your users or server. ICS Cube provide you with an easy web interface to apply policies and control network access and traffic.
Remote Management
If you have multiple ICS Cube installed you are able to manage all of them just from a single port of one ICS Cube (central server). No need to remember all IP addresses to manage various locations. Set them up and manage them centrally.
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Pre-installed Apps
- Mail Server
- Local Web Server
- Network Storage
- Small Business VoIP server
- FTP Server
- XMPP Server
We said the ICS Cube provides you with a full solution to secure you corporate network. It is not only this. ICS Cube includes also additional pre-installed services that you can use avoiding the need of having different servers for each one of them. As these services are within ICS Cube it is much easier to apply security on them and manage them.
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Conclusion
During the testing I have setup ICS Cube directly on hardware and also as a VM using both VMWare and Hyper-V. It worked perfectly an all setups without any issues. Based on my tests ICS Cube is really good solution full of features in an affordable price. It is really easy to manage and maintain. Documention is good and their support team really helpful. ICS Cube does what is suppose to do and many more. With the Pre-installed applications ICS Cube is more than just a UTM solution.
Download and test ICS Cube from here. It is worth it.
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