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Einaras

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Greetings,

We built a smart Internet security device that protects homes against hacks. In many ways, it is the first of its kind.

We are building a device that we are super passionate about… and we are looking for users who are just as passionate about IoT, connected home, and/or security in general to join a growing CUJO community, help us with the product roadmap, and try our beta.

If you're interested, check out www.getcujo.com and contact us at hi@getcujo.com.

Cheers,

Einaras Gravrock
 
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Greetings,

We built a smart Internet security device that protects homes against hacks. In many ways, it is the first of its kind.

We are building a device that we are super passionate about… and we are looking for users who are just as passionate about IoT, connected home, and/or security in general to join a growing CUJO community, help us with the product roadmap, and try our beta.

If you're interested, check out www.getcujo.com and contact us at hi@getcujo.com.

Cheers,

Einaras Gravrock

P.S. Here’s a youtube clip explaining CUJO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7b1u_TrEI

Congrats on your endeavor. I hope it works well and beyond all expectations. The home needs an easy to use network security device that protects everyone. This is a great place to start.
 
Very little real info on this on the website.

The idea is great. But anything 'automatic' is never to be trusted. Instead of hackers needing to learn to hack a million different devices, all they need to do is learn how to hack one (if it becomes popular enough).

I too wish you well with this product, but I do not see anything at this time to recommend it at all.

A lot of promises, without a lot of details as to how it is capable of delivering what it states it can.
 
yeah there isnt much information. Does being a beta user meaning pre-ordering? For a non techie consumer it may make sense but many regulars on this forum are techies who can set up their own multi component UTMs. Instead of posting like this you should loan the device to some users here to write a review like the many reviews you see on the website. Many reviews are either with devices being tried out than returned, loaned or bought for personal/business use.
 
Does this internet security device run as a transparent firewall? Does it run as a router and DHCP server? You might want to publish requirements.
 
Agree with the other posters in that more details are needed. Your need to protect competitive secrets is important when early in product development. However, at this stage, when you're asking for beta testers, it sounds like it's nearly ready to go, or at least at a critical stage of the product development cycle.

How does it work? How do you hook it up? What is, or will be, the cost? How does your product differ from the others, at least in general? As a consumer, why would I decide it's better than what I'm now using or the holes it fills? Besides being a computer geek, I'm also a fair marketer and a CPA. Try some role playing internally ... sit someone down and convince them they need your product while they tell you why they don't need it without either side of the role play being nutty about it. Then go to work on eliminating the objections. Repeat. Or run an internal contest of "the Objection of the Day", then overcome it. Are they technical or perception problems?

To me, false positives are the big issue with professional level UTM products. Companies can set policies and dedicate employees to keeping the network going. Home users just ultimately want the home network to work as uneventfully as the home microwave oven. How does cujo assist with that?

For example, I'm playing with LinuxMint as a Win 10 alternative. (Opensuse and Fedora were both unsuitable due to the little usability issues that make a home OS worth using.) For a couple of hours, Snort on my pfSense router just killed my app loading abilities. I found a block that clearly stated 'No Security Issue", but it just didn't like me downloading from repositories. I suppressed that rule after I discovered it and have had no problems since. Prior to finding it, I was about ready to toss out the Win10 replacement concept. So far, Mint is pretty good. Going to try Wine in a couple of weeks to see how well my preferred Windows apps work. Haven't got OpenVPN client working yet.

Of course, Snort is not an antivirus, or a malware detector, or a firewall. It's an IP signature detector that acts out if anything looks suspicious, such as a scan or probe. People without open ports don't need it. pfBlockerNG blocks (in/out/both) ip addresses from lists you feed it. They're supposed to be bad sites you don't want to get involved with. ClamAV is supposed to be good with email scans ... haven't tried it yet ... still on the list. Also, still trying to sort out the whole "linux needs no antivirus" thing.

How would using cujo avoid my hassles with common, current UTM based solutions such as Snort?
 
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Interesting product.....curious what the inner workings are, what actual technology and engines are employed...hopefully much more than just the usual open source snort 'n clam stuff.

What antivirus engine(s) are being used?
What other anti malware technologies are used?
Any built in DNS services that are based on one of the safe DNS services out there, like OpenDNS?

They key to getting this to work for "residential users" is to have them plug it in behind their current router....so probably it becomes a transparent proxy via arp poisoning...pretends to be the new gateway for the network.

Anyways...curious in the product. BitDefender has their box. Not many others are trying to penetrate the residential market...as it's difficult to justify something that's over another 200 bucks. And with the smaller of SMB UTMs pretty much non existing below 500-600 bucks...they just won't fit the bill.
 
CUJO Beta testing was a joke.
The App did not work.
You need a Beta device to use the App and none was provided after paying for item and subscription.
Scam or WHAT??????
 
Greetings,

We built a smart Internet security device that protects homes against hacks. In many ways, it is the first of its kind.

We are building a device that we are super passionate about… and we are looking for users who are just as passionate about IoT, connected home, and/or security in general to join a growing CUJO community, help us with the product roadmap, and try our beta.

If you're interested, check out www.getcujo.com and contact us at hi@getcujo.com.

Cheers,

Einaras Gravrock

App does not work!!!!!!!
Thanks for wasting weeks of my time.
Is this a scam???
Where is the funds going to???
Why is there a severe problem of cooperation and assistance for this allege Beta testing?????
 
CUJO Beta testing was a joke.
The App did not work.
You need a Beta device to use the App and none was provided after paying for item and subscription.
Scam or WHAT??????
App does not work!!!!!!!
Thanks for wasting weeks of my time.
Is this a scam???
Where is the funds going to???
Why is there a severe problem of cooperation and assistance for this allege Beta testing?????
I think this is a scam


Considering that only one post was made by the OP back in August and none of the issues that were raised in the first few posts were addressed, yes; this is a scam.
 
User registered on August 20th, last logged in on August 21st.

Yeaaaaahhh....

My advice: if a company wants you to betatest something for them, they should provide you with all the necessary hardware without requiring you to pay for it. If the hardware is too expensive, they would have you return it once the betatest period was over.
 
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