A Complete Solution for Internet Network Security & Web Browsing Management.

About FlashStart

FlashStart is the Italian brand for internet network security and web browsing management. Operating for more than 10 years, it counts hundreds of installations in small, medium and big enterprises, schools and public authorities.

FlashStart, thanks to its rich products variety, fits every kind of network and client scenario. Moreover, by operating in a strong and constantly growing market, it represent a true added value for the re-seller, with constant marginal utility.

Always the best solution

Excellent technical support

Technical support available 24/7 in English, Spanish, and Italian, thanks to highly skilled engineers and accounts customized to cope with any situation.

FlashStart is made up of people

At FlashStart, we know how important human relationships are, so we combine the best technologies with the talent of our staff.

Continuous coaching

FlashStart puts an entire team behind your technological growth. We take care to constantly support our customers; this is what sets us apart and rewards us.

FlashStart protects you

Our malware protection automatically updates itself every 30 minutes from a database of around 5 million threat sources identified on the web. Thanks to artificial intelligence and analysis, we offer 85 web content categories. Profiles can be created that remove certain types of web content and, in doing so, enable the enforcement of an organisation network use policies.

Threat lists from EU sources

FlashStart provides not only threat data extracted from high-quality commercial sources with few false positives, but also access to community threat feed platforms that you can import at will.

Phishing threats

FThe filter prevents accidental access to malicious websites designed to capture users’ personal data and launch phishing attacks. These websites usually target specific sectors or groups.

Granular filtration (Pro+ only)

The Pro+ version allows deployment of FlashStart on individual profiles or device-specific profiles.

Scheduled access

Access to certain types of content can be programmed to be granted only at certain times of the day or week, as desired.

Aggressive malware

FlashStart mitigates various types of malware, such as ransomware, ccryptowalls, viruses, and Trojans. A comprehensive list can be found on the dashboard.

Intelligent blacklist

If you wish to block certain websites (e.g. facebook.com), FlashStart will also automatically suggest blocking the associated national top-level domains (e.g., facebook.co.uk).

All the requirements for the most effective DNS protections

Content & App Filtering

New internet content is detected and classified within 24 hours. Separate ‘Safe Search’ categorization according to You-Tube, Google and Bing can also be enabled. When a blocked page is reached users receive a customizable stop page and the event is logged.

Malware Mitigation

FlashStart detects the sources of Malware (bad web sites) as well as the symptoms of Malware. This is complementary to anti-threat software deployed on PC’s or devices. FlashStart mitigates ransomware, viruses, banking trojans, botnets and more than 25,000 variations.

Reporting & Analysis

While fully compliant with leading privacy laws (eg 95/46/EC, BPjM etc) FlashStart retains up to 6 month of historical data for creating ad-hoc or scheduled reports. Many pre-canned report formats are available to minimize the effort required.

Time-Scheduling

There can be many reasons to automatically adapt internet filtering policies during the day. For example (1) social medial allowed in breaks, not work-time, or, (2) re-use of a school classroom for adult education in the evening.

Solution for Industries

Companies

Education

Public Entitles

Reseller

ISP/WISP

Hotspot

DNS Filtering for Content Protection with FlashStart and Mikrotik

FlashStart is the innovative content and malware filter for MikroTik RouterOS devices. It requires no additional hardware or software and does not perceivably impact Router performance. It works as a cloud and inspects all DNS resolutions, and it filters internet access according to the end user’s defined security policy.

FlashStart is a high quality, fast and easy-to-use solution which is designed to be sold by the MikroTik retailers community worldwide, becoming a ‘Made for Mikrotik‘ with great determination.

Hundreds of Mikrotik’s retailers and distrubitors are successfully using FlashStart to increase the value of their RouterOS installation, to directly compete against the more expensive UTM and Firewall.

Some hot features

Easy to Setup

Thanks to an easy and efficient automatic setup script, it is possible to enable content and malware Filter on Mikrotik’s device in just a few minutes, with the benefit of an immediate internet safe experience.

Also DNS redirection rules are already provided in our installation script to avoid DNS circumnavigation by users. Providing a safe and clean internet user experience is an excellent way to ensure safety in networks and avoid bandwidth bottlenecks and infections, with the risk of data loss.

Automatic DNS redirection

A couple of easy firewall rules can automatically redirect any outbound DNS connection to FlashStart secure DNSs without the need to change resolvers into clients, a quite complex action on large networks and ISPs.

FlashStart, the ‘Made for Mikrotik‘, is easy to create additional rules to balance outgoing traffic to both secure FlashStart DNSs (185.236.104.104 and 185.236.105.105) and enforce network settings, avoiding users’ switching to a non-secure DNS resolver.

MikroTik DNS over VPN

Mikrotik is also an excellent choice for Internet Service Providers, managing thousands of customers across fiber links, xDSL and Wi-Fi connections. FlashStart also adds an important feature to filter customers granuarly when accessing the Internet behind a shared carrier-grade NAT gateway: DNS over VPN.

This cool feature creates a SSL-based VPN tunnel to only encapsulate DNS queries, creating a tunneled connections to FlashStart secure resolvers. In this way, despite many customers will share the same public IP address, our filtering platform will correctly identify any single customers. DNS over VPN can be easily setup

Auto-provisioning on multiple Routers

MikroTik distributors and ISP network administrators can rely on massive provisioning to equip devices with content and malware filtering so that we will already have it by default.

FlashStart, ‘Made for Mikrotik‘ platform, also support dynamic IP authentication and DNS over VPN working model, making it easy to integrate everything on different network scenarios.

Integrating APIs

Thanks to our API set, it is easy to enrich customer’s reserved area by providing, for example, the most important reports about internet usage (blocked websites, traffic per category, malware detected, etc.).

It is also possible to pilot a large number of functions through APIs, making FlashStart integration an amazing plus, offering interesting information to users about internet safety and malware prevention.