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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
5 (1)
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

As we explored, OPNsense has a pretty decent Captive Portal implementation, and it can work in combination with other features such as web proxy but is not limited to it. We also took a brief look at common issues and how to overcome them. Now, you can set up an entire GuestNet using all these and other possibilities. As we can observe, the more we learn about OPNsense, the more we realize that it is a flexible and powerful security solution. In the next chapter, we'll dive into outstanding intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion protection systems (IPS) features.