نام «به بُد» از ترکیب «به» به معنی بهترین و «بُد» به معنای پاسدار و نگاهبان انتخاب شده است. به بُد Platform امنیتی بومی سازی شده است که تمامی عملکردهای امنیتی تجهیزات گران قیمت دیواره­آتش و UTM را تأمین می نماید که در زیر برخی از رئوس آنها ارائه شده است.

Firewall

• Limit simultaneous connections on a per-rule basis
• Advanced passive OS/network fingerprinting & per OS rule-sets
• Log traffic matching each rule.
• Highly flexible policy routing possible by selecting gateway on a per-rule basis (for load balancing, failover, multiple WAN, etc.)
• Grouping and naming of IPs, networks and ports
• Packet normalization – normalization of packets so there are no ambiguities in interpretation by the ultimate destination of the packet.
• Disable filter
• On a per-rule basis:State table optimization options
  • Limit simultaneous client connections
  • Limit states per host
  • Limit new connections per second
  • Define state timeout
  • Define state type
• Network Address Translation (NAT) & Port Address Translation (PAT)
• Stateful Redundancy
• Load Balancing
• CPU utilization
• Total throughput
• Firewall states
• Individual throughput for all interfaces
• Packets per second rates for all interfaces
• WAN interface gateway(s) ping response times
• Traffic shaper queues on systems with traffic shaping enabled
• Protections against denial of service.
• Disconnect clients who are idle for more than the defined number of minutes.
• Force disconnect of all clients after the defined number of minutes.
• RADIUS capabilities
• HTTP or HTTPS
• Pass-through MAC and IP addresses
• Use a VPN
• Restricted Firewall Access
• Use HTTPS
• Move the WebGUI to an Alternate port

Reporting and Monitoring

RRD Graphs

Real Time monitoring reports

Dynamic DNS

Advanced Captive Portal

DHCP Server and Relay

Wireless Access Point (Must install a Wi-Fi interface)

URL Filtering

Traffic Shaping

Anti-Virus filtering web access with the use of HAVP

Cache as a Transparent Proxy

Sniffers, Packet Capture, IDS

Install as Embedded image

Remote Configuration Backup

Secure Remote firewall Administration

Restrict access to management interface

Copying Logs to a Remote Host with Syslog