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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

Chapter 18: Website Protection with OPNsense

With the NGINX plugin, OPNsense becomes a full-featured, solid Web Application Firewall (WAF). It can help you to protect your network and your web servers with the addition of the NGINX plugin. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use OPNsense as a reverse proxy, WAF, and web server load balancer.

In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:

  • Publishing websites to the world
  • About the NGINX plugin
  • Installing and configuring
  • Adding WAF rules
  • Troubleshooting