The Yoggie Pico Pro is a clever little security device for beefing up security around low powered systems. The Yoggie is, for want of a better explanation, a miniature computer. At its heart are a 520MhZ Intel processor, 128MB of SDRAM, 128MB of NAND Flash and 8 MB of NOR Flash. Keep in mind that those stats would have looked very good on a high-end desktop not all that many years ago. The specifications are more than enough to run some low requirement security programs off a hardened version of Linux.
The Yoggie Pico is a lot more than just a firewall. It offers anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam a range of proxies and VPN to boot. There are a few other aspects to the Pico that are worth mentioning. The Layer-8 security engine detects malicious code in incoming data streams and Multi-Layer Security Agent integrates the different security programs for better integration. Somehow, Yoggie have managed to combine all of these things into a little USB dongle. The price is reasonable, but you ought to consider that there is a $40 per year subscription fee for updates.
If Yoggie came up with a PCI version of this, this writer would put one in his desktop tomorrow.
Source: Oh Gizmo
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Tags: firewall, Security
3 responses
May 22, 2008 at 6:53 am
If you’re bothered about plugging it into an external usb socket with the obveous potential for it to be unplugged, why dont you just use the pins that allow you to use an external USB socket expansion plate on your motherboad to plug in a wire/socket and leave it all inside the case?
Many PCI usb2 cards also have this factility
Jul 31, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I have two of the Yoggie SOHO devices I would be happy to sell cheap. My experience with this company has not been good. Instead of being a hands off simple security fix, I found this product to be a constant source of problems. It was easier to unplug them and return to software based security.
Jun 5, 2009 at 6:48 am
I have had problems with my Yoggie near enough since the day i got it. My machine does not run any faster in fact to recieve emails and surf the net is slower. if I disable yoggie it goes back to normal. my yoggie also keeps crashing so I can never access my pc remotely when I need to. waste of money
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