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Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?", -and that is the subject of the rest of this page. -These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit +and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls, -intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. University -researchers and IT department developers often have similar -security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.

+intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. +University researchers and IT department developers often +have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD. +Many Internet Service Providers find OpenBSD's +security features hard to resist. +

If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to press@openbsd.org . @@ -31,6 +34,7 @@ "Undisclosed Company".

+

Research and other Non-Commercial Users

  • Amnesty International
    @@ -40,21 +44,16 @@ Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.

    -

  • Network Security Technologies, Inc.
    -This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed -intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing -applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the -Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed -military and government agency locations.

    +

  • Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
    +The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to +staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS. +The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD. +

    -

  • Adobe Systems
    -This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls -and network testing systems.

    -

  • Sonora State Electoral Council, México
    El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger -sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet,dando +sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por usuarios internos y externos.
    This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its @@ -62,24 +61,57 @@ provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.

    -

  • WytheNet, Inc.
    +
  • The University of Alberta
    +uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos +servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security +scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used +for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets +behind which all the University's new administrative systems +reside. OpenBSD is used for authenticating +gateways in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in +approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help +secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two +20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.

    -This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and -secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and -several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to -their business DSL customers. +

  • The University of Michigan's +Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)
    +The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis +for many intensive research projects. +OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing +smart card +contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real +applications. Plans are underway to issue cards +containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition. +OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the +mobile computing +program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an +OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the +local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with +privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In +addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as +their primary operating system.

    + +

  • The University of Minnesota
    +This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring +and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces +via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for +processing each month.

    + +

  • Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases
    +The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and +gateways to the Internet.

    -

  • Calyx Internet Access Corp.
    +
    • -This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services -including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its -data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web -sites such as mitsubishicars.com, -snapple.com, -tanqueray.com and others are no -challenge for OpenBSD.

    +

    Commercial Users

    +
    +
  • Adobe Systems
    +This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls +and network testing systems.

    +

  • Alteon Networks
    The gigabit ethernet hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging @@ -91,43 +123,27 @@ products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms, provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high -availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.

    +availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.

    -

  • qpalzm.com services
    -qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The -website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other -technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a -JavaScript Mailing List -using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript -and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs -just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.

    +

  • FSC Internet Corp.
    +A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in +Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct +a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are +delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active +attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend +to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that +open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high +levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software +almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is +committed to."

    -

  • IOActive
    -IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test -servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall, -VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I -sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell. -"The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure -the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time. -OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating -systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".

    +

  • Network Security Technologies, Inc.
    +This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed +intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing +applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the +Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed +military and government agency locations.

    -

  • The University of Minnesota
    -This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring -and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces -via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for -processing each month.

    - -

  • Empire Net
    An ISP in Bend, -Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware, for routing, -firewalling, IPSec/VPN, bandwidth -limiting, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion -detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations. -One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast -ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for -co-location customers and business park tenants.

    -

  • RTMX Incorporated
    This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed @@ -138,53 +154,59 @@ to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.

    -

  • RTMX Networking Services
    -This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web, -DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of -Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and -PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming -on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD -WWW -and ftp sites, -and also provides an anonymous CVS repository -(CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of -disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.

    +

  • SoftQuad Software Inc.
    +This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their +gateway/firewall and FTP services.

    -

  • Poppe Tyson Europe +
  • Xtime
    +Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or +TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to +service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available +via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship +management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75% +of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail +servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts, +monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS +used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage +rate amongst the department for desktop workstations. +

    -is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for -100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50 -sites.

    +

    • -
  • The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)
    -This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis -for many intensive research projects. -OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing -smart card -contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real -applications. Plans are underway to issue cards -containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition. -OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the -mobile computing -program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an -OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the -local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with -privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In -addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as -their primary operating system.

    +

    Internet Service Providers

    +

    +One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe +from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many +ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for +many, if not most, of their services. +

    -
  • The University of Alberta
    -uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos -servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security -scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used -for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets -behind which all the University's new administrative systems -reside. OpenBSD is used for authenticating -gateways in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in -approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help -secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two -20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.

    +

  • BS Web Services
    +BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and +secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and +primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical +LDAP Authentification Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases. +Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:
    +"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs +and maxfiles, but it runs great on hardware that's not so speedy. We are using +AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have some +internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all sorts of +other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD, especially our +firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed source software, but +we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's behaviour under high load, +especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't compare to the Linux we used before +- Linux went extremely slow, while OpenBSD doesn't even care (same +hardware!)". +

    + +

  • Calyx Internet Access Corp.
    +This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services +including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its +data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web +sites such as +snapple.com, +tanqueray.com and others are no +challenge for OpenBSD.

  • Crown.Net
    This internet service provider is running almost completely on @@ -193,21 +215,20 @@ OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are running OpenBSD/i386.

    -

  • FSC Internet Corp.
    -A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in -Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct -a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are -delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active -attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend -to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that -open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high -levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software -almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is -committed to."

    +

  • Elixor Networks Inc.
    +Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts, +website hosting, and domain name hosting. +

    -

  • SoftQuad Software Inc.
    -This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their -gateway, FTP, and web services.

    +

  • Empire Net
    +An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware, +for routing, firewalling, IPSec/VPN, bandwidth +limiting, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion +detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations. +One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast +ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for +co-location customers and business park tenants.

  • Hobbiton.org
    This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other @@ -218,18 +239,60 @@ problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."

    -

  • Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
    -The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to -staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS. -The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD. +
  • Hurontario.net
    +In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD +on several of their own and their customers' machines.

    +

  • IOActive
    +IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test +servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall, +VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I +sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell. +"The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure +the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time. +OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating +systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".

    + +

  • Poppe Tyson Europe +is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for +100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50 +sites.

    + +

  • qpalzm.com services
    +qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The +website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other +technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a +JavaScript Mailing List +using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript +and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs +just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.

    + +

  • RTMX Networking Services
    +This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web, +DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of +Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and +PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming +on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD +WWW +and ftp sites, +and also provides an anonymous CVS repository +(CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of +disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.

    + +

  • WytheNet, Inc.
    +This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and +secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and +several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to +their business DSL customers. +

    +

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