Smoothwall Firewall

Unified threat management firewall for schools, colleges and MATs with Layer 7 application control, IDS/IPS and VPN. Combines Layer 7 application control with perimeter firewall and stateful packet inspection to provide next-generation firewall functionality. Perimeter firewall and internal segmentation firewall to protect your network against all web and non-web-borne threats. Identify and stop applications that you don’t want on your network and prioritise those that you do. It is available as a hardware appliance and a virtual appliance.

Current Version

Newport-9

Product Page

smoothwall.com/education/firewall

Market

EnterpriseSMB

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-20

Smoothwall began in 2000 as an open-source firewall distribution in the United Kingdom and became something more specific: the web filtering used by a large share of British schools. Its business is built around the duty of care schools owe their pupils — filtering, monitoring and the safeguarding reports that go with them — rather than around enterprise perimeter security. Its products are the Smoothwall Firewall listed here, the Smoothwall Filter and its monitoring and safeguarding services, sold into education in the UK and the United States. It was acquired by Family Zone, an Australian company now trading as Qoria, in 2021. That market shapes what the product optimises for: content categorisation, age-appropriate policy and evidence for safeguarding teams. It is not entered into malware detection cycles, which measure something the product does not claim to do. Vendor page →

Website

smoothwall.com

Country

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Headquarters

🇬🇧Leeds, United Kingdom

Year Established

2001

Customers

32K organisations

Users

6M users

Revenue

≈ $17.1M (2023)