Discussing the role of lab firewalls
The lab firewalls can be used for routing, inspecting, logging, and monitoring traffic. As an example, they will be crucial to getting the interconnectivity between IT and OT. The IT firewall should be configured with a static route into the industrial network:
On the other hand, the OT firewall uses a default route (route for the 0.0.0.0
subrange) to the IT firewall:
You will learn that these firewalls are versatile tools in setting up scenarios and environments for your experiments and testing exercises throughout this book.