The OpenBSD firewall platform

Changes roll back. Releases are signed. Daemons stay sandboxed.

OgmaProtect turns a stock OpenBSD box — or one of our fanless appliances — into a firewall that fails closed, verifies what it installs, and can prove what it did.

Early access · v0.5.5 · OpenBSD 7.9 Source available to auditors on request No telemetry

  • 16sandboxed daemons — each pledged and unveiled to one job
  • Ed25519every published release signed offline — your box refuses anything else
  • 2packages beyond OpenBSD base — a dependency list you can read in full
  • 0telemetry — nothing reaches us unless you turn the update check on
Two ways to run it

Your hardware, or ours

Software edition

Free for qualifying small businesses

  • Installs on a stock OpenBSD 7.9 system with pkg_add — any amd64 hardware OpenBSD supports.
  • Verified against our signing key as it unpacks — nothing unverified is ever written to disk.
  • One command from installed package to HTTPS login.
  • Licensed commercially beyond the small-business terms.

Appliance

From €749 ex VAT · pre-order

  • Fanless, burn-in tested, OpenBSD 7.9 and OgmaProtect installed.
  • Our signing key anchored at the bench; no product credential created at the factory.
  • Serial recovery cable in the box; 12-month hardware warranty.
  • Your choice of edition: the software edition, or the image edition with a signed, read-only root on two boot slots.In progress
Which one are you?

Three reasons people pick it. Pick yours.

If you run OpenBSD already

It is PF. It is your box.

  • Native PF, CARP, pfsync, Unbound and WireGuard, driven from one canonical configuration.
  • Nothing hidden: a root console, ogmaprotectctl, with a manual page — and drift detection that flags your hand edits as exactly that.
  • Every published release is signify-signed; the source is available to auditors and licensees on request.
Read the architecture →
If you answer to an auditor

Controls you can point at.

  • Roles, per-user MFA, lockout and session policy — administrator-set, not hard-coded.
  • A tamper-evident audit trail, mirrored to remote syslog, verifiable off the box.
  • Offline-signed releases, a published security policy, advisories with a CVE state.
See the controls map →
If you just need a firewall that works

Unbox, connect, sign in.

  • A fanless appliance sized to your connection, from €749 ex VAT.
  • It refuses changes that would lock you out and reverts ones you do not confirm.
  • Free software for small businesses; we size the hardware with you, not up.
See the appliances →
How it is built

Built like the OS it runs on

OpenBSD's habits — pledge and unveil, fail closed, verify everything — as the shape of the product, not a layer under it.

01 · SANDBOXED

Each domain in its own process

Firewall, routing, DNS, DHCP, VPN — every domain is its own daemon, pledged and unveiled to the minimum it needs. The web tier renders pages and holds nothing worth stealing.

02 · REVERSIBLE

Configuration you can take back

Every apply is validated, written atomically and recorded as a revision. Changes that could cut you off revert unless you confirm them. Drift is flagged within minutes, not at the next audit.

03 · VERIFIED

Nothing asks to be trusted

Releases are signed offline and refused if they are not. The audit trail carries integrity tags an auditor can check off the box. Every claim on this site maps to evidence in the source tree.

  1. Your browser HTTPS with HSTS. No agent, no plugin, nothing to install.
    holds a session cookie
  2. one unix socket, root-only
    Web tier httpd + slowcgi, chrooted, unprivileged. Renders pages.
    holds no credentials · no secrets · no configuration
  3. authenticated, role-checked requests
    Gatekeeper — authd Sessions, roles, TOTP MFA, the secret store, and the audit trail for every privileged action.
    holds accounts, sessions and secrets — the tier everything else protects
  4. per-domain sockets · capability tokens
    16 domain daemons netd · rtd · pfd · dnsd · dhcpd · 11 more. Each pledged and unveiled to the minimum it needs.
    holds one domain each — nothing else
  5. validate → apply live → atomic write → revision
    OpenBSD PF, CARP, pfsync, Unbound, WireGuard — the native tools, driven from canonical configuration.
    holds the running firewall
A fully compromised web tier yields no configuration access. It has nothing to give.

Signed offline

The signing key exists only on offline media, held by two custodians. CI builds drafts; an air-gapped machine signs. CI holds no key: a compromised build runner cannot sign or publish a release on its own.

Key published out of band

A DNS record on a separate domain at a separate provider, with its fingerprint printed on the download page to compare against.

One manifest, three artifacts

Everything a release ships — the package and, when a release carries one, the appliance image — under a single signature. pkg_add refuses anything unsigned.

Advisories, with a CVE state

A published security policy: acknowledgement within three working days, coordinated disclosure, and advisories that say what is affected and what to do.

The architecture and the release path, in full →

Platform

The whole router, one model

Everything below goes through the same pipeline: validate, apply live, write atomically, record a revision — with drift detection watching the result.

OgmaProtect interface page: a WAN uplink, Office LAN, a Guest Wi-Fi VLAN, and a Branch VPN WireGuard interface, each with status, addresses and a Manage action.
The interfaces view — physical NICs, VLANs, bridges and VPN tunnels, one console.

Firewall (PF)

Structured rules, inline NAT, tables, a live state browser, brute-force auto-ban, anti-lockout built in.

Dynamic routing

OSPF and BGP with a real policy engine, peer groups, TCP-MD5, zero-downtime key rotation, a route-leak gate.

VPN & tunnels

WireGuard with a full key lifecycle, IPsec (IKEv2 and manual), GRE, VXLAN, EtherIP and gif.

Resilient edge

Multi-WAN failover on real health probes, PPPoE, IPv6 end to end, VLANs and bridges.

Network services

DHCP with live leases, DNS with DNS-over-TLS and DNSSEC, block-lists, managed NTP.

High availability

CARP with safe preemption windows, pfsync, authenticated configuration sync.

Day-2 operations

Users, roles and MFA, a tamper-evident audit trail, two-step updates, alerting, diagnostics.

Backup & recovery

Signed, optionally encrypted bundles, dry-run import, a rehearsed console-only restore.

The full feature breakdown, with evidence badges →

Pre-order

Appliances from €749, in the edition you choose

Edge 1G, Branch 2.5G, Core 10G and two HA pairs, sized with you rather than up. Every one comes in the edition you choose: the software edition, or the image edition — a signed, read-only operating system on two boot slots, with your configuration on its own partition.

In progress The image edition — built and signed with the current release, being proven on hardware now, and offered on every appliance as soon as it is.

Slot A · active Read-only root The release you are running. Nothing written here survives a reboot.
Slot B · standby Read-only root The next signed image lands here, is verified, then activated.
/cfg · writable Your configuration and state Untouched by updates. The only partition your data lives on.
RAM /etc · /var · /dev Rebuilt from the active slot at every boot.
  • Nothing a compromise writes to the root survives a reboot. Both slots are read-only; the system tree is rebuilt from the active one every boot.
  • An update lands on the standby slot, is verified against the signed manifest, then activated behind two confirmations. It never touches the slot you booted from.
  • A boot that fails three times is designed to switch back to the previous slot on its own — proven in tests, not yet on shipped hardware.
  • Your configuration is never part of the image.
Editions & licensing

Free for small businesses. Licensed for everyone else.

Available

Small business — free

The full platform, free to use for the benefit of a company with fewer than 100 people and under USD 1M (2019, inflation-adjusted) revenue in the prior tax year — both conditions must hold.

Download OgmaProtect

Available

Commercial

The same product for organisations beyond the small-business threshold, licensed directly by Wireless Connect Ltd. — with commercial terms, support expectations and distribution rights agreed to fit.

Contact us

Pre-order

Appliances

Pre-installed, burn-in tested hardware in three sizes from €749 ex VAT, plus HA pairs. Hardware is priced separately and does not change the licence.

See the range

Planned

Premium subscriptions

In design, shown for roadmap transparency: curated threat-feed subscriptions and external-vantage exposure scanning that verifies your firewall from the outside. Not yet available.

See the roadmap

Licensed under the PolyForm Small Business License 1.0.0 — source-available, not open source; copies may be passed on, the right to use them may not. The product is v0.5.5, in early access, and the roadmap says what is real without inventing a date. Details on the pricing & licensing page.

Get started

Run it this afternoon.

Download the signed package and have a managed firewall before the day is out — or pre-order an appliance and plug it in. Auditor waiting? Send us the questionnaire.