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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

In this chapter, you learned about IDSs and IPSs and how to configure OPNsense as an IDS to gather traffic alerts for traffic based on rulesets. You also learned about IPS mode, as well as how to enable it and block traffic on the local network. In the Troubleshooting section, we explored common issues that you may face while using an I(DP)S in OPNsense and learned how to solve each.

In the next chapter, we'll take traffic inspection to the next level by using the next-generation capabilities that are available via Sunny Valley's Zenarmor plugin.