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.

Price: $200

Source: Oh Gizmo