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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, we've learned how to configure the OPNsense system settings, create users and groups, and how to back up the system configuration. You are now able to change OPNsense settings, add users and groups with different levels of privileges, enable external authentication for remote users' authentication in OPNsense, and change low-level settings using tunables. And you can do all these system modifications with confidence by doing a system backup before applying changes.

In the next chapter, we will dive into firewalling concepts and features available on OPNsense. We will learn how to manage rules, change firewall settings when necessary, and troubleshoot common issues using diagnostic tools and logs.