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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

Publishing websites to the world

Nowadays, our modern internet is, essentially, based on web applications. It is rare to see a modern app that is built to run installed on a computer, and even the smartphone-based apps are, for the most part, a responsive version of the website. While managing an OPNsense firewall, you will probably have to deal with websites and web applications. As a modern next-generation firewall solution, OPNsense can provide enough features to keep a website safely online, protecting it against threats. In the following sections, we will explore the NGINX plugin, which does an outstanding job while publishing web server applications and websites protected by OPNsense.