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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Book Image

OPNsense Beginner to Professional

5 (1)
By: Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Overview of this book

OPNsense is one of the most powerful open source firewalls and routing platforms available. With OPNsense, you can now protect networks using features that were only previously available to closed source commercial firewalls. This book is a practical guide to building a comprehensive network defense strategy using OPNsense. You’ll start with the basics, understanding how to install, configure, and protect network resources using native features and additional OPNsense plugins. Next, you’ll explore real-world examples to gain in-depth knowledge of firewalls and network defense. You’ll then focus on boosting your network defense, preventing cyber threats, and improving your knowledge of firewalling using this open source security platform. By the end of this OPNsense book, you’ll be able to install, configure, and manage the OPNsense firewall by making the most of its features.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Initial Configuration
6
Section 2: Securing the Network
13
Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall

Summary

I have tried to cover the most relevant content related to a web proxy service in this chapter. The topic of web proxies could easily produce an entire book due to its complexity. Still, our goal in this book is to complement the existing documentation and share a little bit of experience of years working with network security and OPNsense. Now, you might be able to install and configure a web proxy service for small-to-medium networks using OPNsense. We have explored the basics, deployment methods, basic configuration and customization, enabling web filtering, and troubleshooting common issues. In the next chapter, we'll move on to another great OPNsense feature to control user access using web browsers: the Captive Portal. See you on the following pages!