Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android



EnforceGate vX is described as 'Self-hosted secure web gateway — URL filtering, network access control, and SSL/TLS inspection, on your own infrastructure' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are five alternatives to EnforceGate vX for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best EnforceGate vX alternative is Plucky. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Plucky or Squid. Other great apps like EnforceGate vX are E2Guardian and Zenarmor.



Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.


DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering.


e2guardian is an Open Source web content filter, It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, request header and URL filtering, etc. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites.
Zenarmor is a high-performance, software-defined network security platform that deploys a complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) stack onto virtually any hardware or cloud environment.
