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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

You're reading from   OPNsense Beginner to Professional Protect networks and build next-generation firewalls easily with OPNsense

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816878
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine.nJulio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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Preface 1. Section 1: Initial Configuration
2. Chapter 1: An OPNsense Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing OPNsense 4. Chapter 3: Configuring an OPNsense Network 5. Chapter 4: System Configuration 6. Section 2: Securing the Network
7. Chapter 5: Firewall 8. Chapter 6: Network Address Translation (NAT) 9. Chapter 7: Traffic Shaping 10. Chapter 8: Virtual Private Networking 11. Chapter 9: Multi-WAN – Failover and Load Balancing 12. Chapter 10: Reporting 13. Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall
14. Chapter 11: Deploying DHCP in OPNsense 15. Chapter 12: DNS Services 16. Chapter 13: Web Proxy 17. Chapter 14: Captive Portal 18. Chapter 15: Network Intrusion (Detection and Prevention) Systems 19. Chapter 16: Next-Generation Firewall with Zenarmor 20. Chapter 17: Firewall High Availability 21. Chapter 18: Website Protection with OPNsense 22. Chapter 19: Command-Line Interface 23. Chapter 20: API – Application Programming Interface 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1: An OPNsense Overview

This chapter will introduce you to the OPNsense project, tell you about its history, license, and fork motivations, and where you can find help if you need it. Before installing and configuring your own OPNsense installation, it is essential to learn about some concepts and how the OPNsense project was started. We will also learn about FreeBSD, and its fork, HardenedBSD, exploring OPNsense features and the typical deployments scenarios that we can use it.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • About the OPNsense project
  • Rock-solid FreeBSD – HardenedBSD
  • Why OPNsense?
  • Features and common deployments
  • Getting help
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Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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