ClearOS  Home

We've designed ClearOS Home to help run your IT related functions and home. Now you can stream every single movie, TV show, home video, song and photo in your collection to any device, anywhere. Whether your files are scattered across computers and the cloud or perfectly cataloged in one place, ClearOS and Plex organizes it all and presents it beautifully on any screen. This means your phone, tablet, or PC, as well as your big screen through your PlayStation, Xbox, or favorite streaming device.

• Built for home use, protecting families and delivering simplified media.
• No user fees & simple per-server license options
• Content Filter, Bandwidth Control, Media Server, & more...

1. Home Protection Apps & Services:

⑴ Content Filter

The Content Filter app allows an administrator to enforce browsing policy. Policy can be enforced across all users or, group definitions can be created, allowing an admin to categorise users into groups - to be filtered uniquely based on the group policy/definition. The Content filter uses both blacklists and word association algorithms to determine suitable content based on category settings. Enabling the Content Filter app can be used to enforce company policy and/or meet regulatory compliance (e.g. Children's Internet Protection Act or CIPA).

 

 

ClearCenter Content Filter Updates

Studies reveal the average employee spends 75 minutes per day using office computers for non-business related activity, costing employers thousands of dollars per year, per employee. If you are a business owner, government agency or academic institution, receiving blacklist updates may be required by law (e.g. CIPA) in order to meet certain government regulations. The ClearCenter Content Filter Updates service provides updates to the URL blacklist to improve the effectiveness of the filter.

 

Web Access Control

Time-based Access Control allows an administer to enforce time-of-day web access to users or computers (IP or MAC address) using the web proxy.

 

Web Proxy

A web proxy acts as an intermediary server for web requests originating from the Local Area Network. Implementing a proxy server is optional, however, several benefits are gained such as increasing page access times (using caching), decreasing bandwidth use, logging website visits by user and/or IP and implementing access control restrictions.

 

Web Proxy Server

A Web Proxy Server acts as an intermediary server for web requests originating from the Local Area Network. Implementing a proxy server is optional, however, several benefits are gained such as increasing page access times (using caching), decreasing bandwidth use, logging website visits by user and/or IP and implementing access control restrictions.

 

⑵ Intrusion Detection

The Intrusion Detection app is the cornerstone of security for any size network. The app uses the highly regarded Snort engine to perform real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The app can help identify, log and stop (using the IPS plugin) external attack vectors targeting the network (fingerprinting, buffer overflows, brute force authentication etc.). The app contains over 1000 known attack vector signatures with another 8000+ signatures available (with continuous updates) via the IDS update subscription from ClearCenter (app available in the Marketplace).

 

Intrusion Prevention

The Intrusion Prevention app is a plugin to the Intrusion Detection system. The service dynamically creates firewall rules (iptables) to block IP packets if a packet stream matches a known attack signature. Signatures are provided by the intrusion detection app, containing over 1000 known attack vectors. An additional 8,000-10,000 signatures are available (and continually updated) via the IDS update subscription from ClearCenter (app available in the Marketplace).

 

Intrusion Protection Updates Service

Intrusion Protection takes an active role at the edge of your network. It detects attempts to gain access to your system by known exploits and then pro-actively firewalls your server from the perpetrator. Having additional attack vector signatures in additional to continual updates is essential in deploying a security perimeter for your network. The Intrusion Protection Signatures and Updates app provides over 12,000 additional signatures and continual weekly updates.

 

⑶ Firewall

The incoming firewall app allows administrators to simply open ports (or port ranges) for services running locally on the server. If a service requires connections from outside your network to be made (i.e. running a web or mail service on a system configured for gateway and server), a corresponding port or port range will need to be added through this app.

 

ibVPN

Invisible Browsing VPN (ibVPN) is a service that allows you to surf the Web invisibly and securely without leaving a trace and without being tracked. By using an ibVPN server located in another country you can access geographically locked content and services such as Hulu, BBC Iplayer, Pandora, and Netflix.

 

Custom Firewall

Allows customized firewall (iptables) rules to be added. In advanced or highly customised networking environments, the addition of advanced firewall rules that cannot be added using the available firewall apps (Incoming, DMZ, MultiWAN, Port Forwarding etc.) to achieve the desired security and packet routing can be accomplished using the custom firewall app. Use of this module should be reserved for advanced users only.

 

Egress Firewall

The Egress Firewall app enforces policy on traffic leaving your network. Two modes are available - allow all and blanket block. Allow all outgoing traffic through, with the exception of rules you create based on destination port or hostname. Blanket block prevents all outgoing traffic from passing through the firewall unless specifically allowed.

1-to-1 NAT

1-to-1 NAT maps a public IP address to a private IP address. It allows systems behind the firewall and configured with private IP addresses (RFC 1918) appear to have public IP addresses. This feature requires additional public IP addresses from your Internet service provider (ISP).

 

⑷ Gateway Antivirus

The Antivirus app is designed to help prevent virus attacks against desktop computers, laptops, smartphones etc. by providing a gateway perimeter. The scanner has the ability to filter non-encrypted web traffic and FTP downloads via the browser. The antivirus engine is based on the open-source software called ClamAV. The software automatically updates itself with the latest virus signatures available from the ClamAV community. Additional signatures are available (and highly recommended for any commercial or deployment of 5 or more users) as a subscription from ClearCenter (app-antivirus-updates).

 

Antimalware Updates

The ClearCenter Antimalware Updates service provides daily signature updates in addition to those that are available from the community. Research shows small businesses experience, on average, 5 malware events per year. Recovering from the damage done by a virus can range from a low of $50-$100 for a malware removal tool/professional support to an incalculable cost if significant productivity or data loss occurs.

 

ClearCenter Remote Security Audit

Remote Security Audit is a service for system administrators to limit the damage potential of corrupted or tampered system files. Reviewed on a regular basis, the audit can quickly notify an admin so damage control measures can be taken in a timely manner. The audit notification (sent from ClearCenter's SDN cloud service) is essentially tamperproof against a malicous attacker covering the intrusion due to the creation of a unique audit hash which is stored in the cloud and compared against on subsequent audits.

 

2. Home Media Apps & Services:

 

⑴ Plex Media Server

The Plex Media Server is a backend application to help you manage and stream media to almost any network connected device. This app has been integrated to ClearOS's Network Map app that allows you to restrict when users/devices on the LAN can access the media server - a useful feature if you allow guests on your network ...

 

Plex simple

Easy to install. Easy to use.

Plex Media Server simplifies your life by organizing all of your personal media, making it beautiful and streaming it to all of your devices.

 

 

Plex everywhere

One window into all your personal media. No matter where you are.

Plex features

Plex is packed with features designed to make your media experience easy and enjoyable.

 

Make your media beautiful

Plex gives you one simple interface to organize all of your media: your movie and TV collection, your music library, and all of your photos and home videos. Plex enriches your media library by adding descriptions, plot summaries, posters, and album covers. Enjoy your media on every TV in the house or on any mobile device on the go.

 

Plex keeps track of your media

Recently added content is presented front and center so you can instantly see what's new. Plex also knows which movies and shows you're watching, so you can easily pick up where you left off or play the next episode.

 

Available on most devices

Run Plex Media Server on your Windows, Mac or Linux computer and stream to your iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8.1 device. Have multiple TVs in your house? No problem, Plex also works on Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Google TV, Xbox, PlayStation®, VIZIO, and many late-model smart TVs. Plex is even available on most network-attached storage devices.

 

Manage what's being watched on Plex

Control the media that your friends and family can access, both in and out of the home. Plex Home allows you to create customized, managed accounts, and restrict content those users can access. Restrict based on content ratings, or share specific items. Buy one Plex Pass for your home and share benefits like apps.

 

Automatically upload your photos

Now, photos from your phone or tablet can be wirelessly synced to Plex automatically thanks to Camera Upload. It's a new Plex Pass feature that makes sharing special snaps with family and friends easy, lets you stream photos to different screens, and allows you to free up space on your mobile device.

 

Playlists, for endless entertainment

Create your own customized music or video playlists to fit any occasion, including smart playlists based on genre, collection, and more. You can even import existing iTunes playlists, smart playlists, ratings, track counts, and other details! Playlists are available on iOS and in the web app, but we're working hard to bring them to all platforms.

 

 

⑵ Serviio Media Server

Serviio is a media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network. Serviio works with many devices from your connected home (TV, Playstation 3, XBox 360, smart phones, tablets, etc.)...