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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

Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall

This final part will go through some extra features you can use in OPNsense to go beyond the firewall. We will explore services such as DHCP and DNS services, and how to apply web browsing controls and guestnet authorization with Web Proxy and Captive Portal. Will see how to extend Layer4 firewalling with IDS/IPS and the Sensei plugin and how to improve OPNsense availability by integrating two or more firewalls in a cluster. Finally, we will learn how OPNsense can protect websites.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters: