Since first being released 5 years ago to the South African market, iShield has been exceptionally well received amongst the reseller channel and SME end users.

Today, iShield is considered one of South Africa’s premium Internet Management Tools combining multifunction firewall features with Unified Threat Management and a mail server.

Ken Gilford, iShield Product Manager says, “iShield was originally designed to meet the two primary Internet needs that SME’s have: bandwidth cost control and network protection. However, continuous product development has ensured that the product now offers an extensive range of benefits to add value to our clients and our partners’ clients, with the latest developments focusing on training and partner support.”

iShield allows users to:

• remotely monitor Internet usage enabling management of resources on a real-time basis.
• monitor emails by setting size limits per user, scan all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses and automatically add disclaimers to prevent your company from legal ramifications.
• restrict users from accessing web sites for personal use, eg. Face Book, You Tube, Gaming, Banking, etc. and thus improve productivity.
• generate web-based Internet usage reports and hold staff accountable for excessive bandwidth usage.

Being locally developed and supported guarantees that iShield is a cost effective solution for SME’s and that the team is strategically placed to provide comprehensive support and customer services to its clients and partners.

The iShield Lite and Pro solutions have been designed to be scalable and to suit any organisational size or budget.

iShield is supported by an extensive partner programme which forms mutually beneficial relationships with partners by adding value to their existing client services. “iShield is an ideal solution for resellers who are interested in offering a superior Internet management tool to their client base,” says Gilford.

Says one partner, “We have been using iShield for the past 4 years. We install it at all our contract clients and would never be able to provide the quality of service we do without it. We can remotely access our clients’ sites to provide real-time, proactive support. The bandwidth monitoring and the ability to set user limits, together with the constant product development has seen iShield growing into the most superior, user-friendly Internet Management Tool I have ever used.”

iShield has been successfully exported to other countries in Africa including Ghana, DRC, Mozambique and Kenya and is now well positioned to be launched in Europe and the States.

Login to the iShield
Click on VPN Setup icon
Select Encryption keys from the sub-menu
Click on the Spanner icon next to the VPN server.
Download the client key file (that you created here) to the clients PC by clicking on the blue disk icon.
Logout of the iShield.
Download the file tradeshield_vpn_gui.exe to the clients PC.
OpenVPN gui installation:

To install the OpenVPN gui, double click on the tradeshield_vpn_gui.exe 1) file
Select Next
Select Agree
Select Next
Select Install (if error pops up click – continue anyway)
Select Next
Select Finish
Key file installation:

Using a product such as 7Zip extract the client key file into C:\Program Files\Openvpn\config\
Restart the PC
Right click on the vpn gui icon (In the tray in the bottom right-hand corner next to the time)
Click on Connect

[flv:/VPNFLV.flv]

The bandwidth monitoring and the ability to set user limits, together with the constant product development has seen iShield growing into the most superior, user-friendly Internet Management Tool I have ever used.