Indian security startup Wep Solutions is offering its unified threat management software for free to small businesses worldwide.

"Taking a cue from India's large outsourcers, the company plans to make money from selling low-cost services to businesses that download the software from its Web site, said K. Purushottam, joint CEO of Wep," writes PCWorld's John Ribeiro.

"The UTM (unified threat management) offering, called Ubiq-Freedom, is available under an open-source license, and includes popular open-source software such as Squid caching proxy for the Web and IP tables for the firewall, said Debasheesh Bagchi [CQ], Wep's program head for Ubiq-Freedom," Ribeiro writes. "The UTM is offered with an online management console, designed by Wep, that small businesses can use to configure the UTM."

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