Law No. 5651-Compliant Firewall with Legal Logging
A Law No. 5651-compliant firewall automatically collects the access logs that businesses and institutions providing internet access must keep under Turkish Law No. 5651, signs them with a timestamp and stores them so they can be presented in an audit. PONIVA Firewall does this on the appliance itself: logs are signed with a TÜRKTRUST, Zamane or TÜBİTAK KAMUSM timestamp and can be exported to a USB drive, an FTP server or a Windows share. No separate log server or software is required.
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Time Stamping Integrated with TÜBİTAK, E-İMZA and TURKTRUST.
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One-Click Audit Report Generate an audit-ready report for any date range straight from the panel.
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Secure Retention Records are held on the appliance SSD, with backup to an external server supported.
Keeping logs is a legal duty
Under Law No. 5651, every business that provides internet access — hotels, cafés, hospitals, schools, public institutions and companies alike — must keep access records and retain them for the prescribed period.
Keeping the records is not enough on its own: they must be time-stamped, provably unaltered and available to the authorities on request. Businesses that fail to comply can face administrative fines.
- Made in TurkeyR&D and manufacturing in Turkey
- TRTEST certificationFirewall certification process completed
- Local supportReachable support team
- Simple managementAll policies and reports in one panel
Logging, signing and export in one appliance
Logging and signing
- Timestamping: integrated with TÜRKTRUST, Zamane and TÜBİTAK KAMUSM
- Secure storage: logs are kept on the appliance's SSD storage
- Integrity: you can show in an audit that signed logs have not been altered
- Guest network: access logs of hotspot users are kept on the same appliance
Export and reporting
- USB: logs can be exported to a USB drive
- FTP and Windows share: logs can be exported to a server on your network
- Syslog / SIEM: logs can be forwarded to central log systems
- Audit report: generate a report for any date range from the panel
Legal Logging (Law No. 5651) — frequently asked questions
What is a Law No. 5651-compliant firewall?
It is a firewall that automatically collects, timestamps and stores the access logs that businesses and institutions providing internet access must keep under Turkish Law No. 5651. PONIVA Firewall keeps these logs on the appliance and also provides security functions such as IDS/IPS, web filtering and VPN in the same device.
Do I need a separate Law No. 5651 logging appliance or software?
No. PONIVA Firewall keeps access logs on the appliance and signs them with a timestamp; no separate logging appliance, server or software is needed. Logs of guest network (hotspot) users are kept on the same appliance.
Who is required to keep 5651 logs?
Every individual and organisation providing internet access is covered: hotels, cafés, restaurants, hospitals, schools, public institutions, shopping centres, workplaces and anyone offering a guest network.
How long must records be kept?
Regulations require access records to be retained for the prescribed period — commonly applied as two years — with their integrity preserved. PONIVA appliances manage retention automatically according to capacity.
How do I hand over records during an audit?
Select the requested date range in the panel and export the report; it is produced together with time-stamp and integrity verification data.
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