I know I do. Up until now I’ve been using SSH tunnels to get my traffic back home where I know nobody is running a packetsniffer. The trouble with SSH tunnels though is that they’re fickle, and often drop. I wanted a better solution – so I made one.

www.atenlabs.com/zipline

Right now its pretty much just a VPN. My goals are pretty straight forward

• Obtain subscribers, and offer excellent service
• Grow the product, then upgrade the hardware and bandwidth
• Value-Adds, like in-line antivirus, antispam, malware etc – make the product SAFER
• Bolt on business-class solutions like traffic shaping, packet prioritization and SLA guarantees.

My inital product pricing will be something like this:

• $15/mo or $150 a year for the base package (You save 2 months worth by buying a year in advance)
• $25/mo or $250 a year for higher packet priority
• Business class services – still working this one out.

I’m totally open to collaboration. I built this for myself, and my friends – so that we could feel secure using sites, and applications that were built insecurely on public wireless networks without fear of someone capturing our credentials, or snooping in on our traffic (e.g. airpwn, ettercap, goatseAP and the others)

Ideas? Comments? Hatemail? Drop me a note!

So I’ve put together some retainer package deals. These deals are setup to bring added value to the existing clientele we have, as well as newcomers.

It’s structured like this:

Lets say a new client comes to us and asks for a 15 minute security sweep. We perform the sweep and deliver the report, along with a quote describing what we would have done if we were allowed to continue. The quote is for, lets argue, 15 hours of security work, and 10 hours of systems architecture work. The quote is marked down with a discount since the client opted in for the 15 minute sweep. Our hours are billed out in a tiered structure, wherein the number of hours dictates the hourly rate – the more hours, the cheaper it gets.

Lets now say that the new client agrees to the quote and work begins. The work is completed to the satisfaction of the client, and a retainer package is considered – the retainer packages rate is locked in at the rate at which the project was established – thereby giving a considerably large discount to the clients who opt in for the retainer packages.

This also saves the client valuable dollars in this economy because Aten Labs is already familiar with the environment, and at this point is only mere hours of cost compared to a regular full time employee.

Sound interesting? Check out the retainers page for more info – and while you’re at it, sign up for a free 15 minute security sweep!