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Sentra · defence

One protection layer in front of your applications

WAF, DDoS protection, load balancing, DNS and certificate management in a single console. Runs on-premise, in an air-gapped environment, or as SaaS.

Capabilities

What it does

Web application firewall

Built on the ModSecurity engine and the OWASP Core Rule Set. Detects SQL injection, XSS, remote code execution, file inclusion and bot traffic. Four sensitivity levels let each organisation set its own false-positive balance.

Learning mode

Rules run but traffic is not interrupted. You see which rule matches which request in real traffic, weed out false positives, and switch to blocking when ready.

Layered DDoS protection

Connection and request-rate limits at L3-L4; behavioural analysis at the application layer. Protection level is set per pool.

Load balancing

Round robin, least connections, source IP and URI-based distribution. Active health checks, backup origin and planned maintenance mode.

Authoritative DNS + DNS firewall

Full record management, zone import, external secondary via TSIG. Category-based DNS filtering.

Certificate management

Central store with PEM and PFX support, ACME-compatible automated issuance, TLS 1.0–1.3 selection, HSTS, HTTP/2 and chain validation.

Architecture

How it works

Sentra has three layers: management, edge nodes and logging. Traffic passes only through the edge nodes; protection continues even if the management layer is unavailable.

Management

Policies, pools and certificates are configured here and distributed to the edge nodes. Every change is written to the audit trail and can be rolled back.

Edge nodes

The layer that terminates, inspects and forwards traffic to the origin. Scaled horizontally; if one node fails, traffic keeps flowing through the others.

Logging

Event and access records are collected centrally; they feed the analytics and produce the data that steers Penetra's scanning.

Deployment

Matched to your constraints

On-premiseIn your own data centre, full control
Air-gappedNo internet, offline licensing
SaaSWe operate the infrastructure

See it with your own traffic

Walk through the Sentra console and Penetra's output in a demo environment; we will size the deployment model and capacity against your own traffic profile.