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OPNsense Beginner to Professional
OPNsense Beginner to Professional

OPNsense Beginner to Professional: Protect networks and build next-generation firewalls easily with OPNsense

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  • Learn end-to-end OPNsense firewall implementation and management
  • Defend against attacks by leveraging third-party plugins such as Nginx and Sensei
  • Grasp hands-on examples and labs to become proficient with OPNsense firewall

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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.

Who is this book for?

This OPNsense firewall book is for system administrators, network administrators, network security professionals, and enthusiasts who wish to build and manage an enterprise-grade firewall using OPNsense. A basic understanding of how a firewall works will be helpful to make the most of this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand the evolution of OPNsense
  • Get up and running with installing and setting up OPNsense
  • Become well-versed with firewalling concepts and learn their implementation and practices
  • Discover how to apply web browsing controls and website protection
  • Leverage Sensei to implement next-generation firewall features
  • Explore the command-line interface (CLI) and learn the most relevant FreeBSD commands

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Publication date : Jun 24, 2022
Length: 464 pages
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N/A Feb 21, 2024
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Pubblicazioni interessanti scritti con il giusto livello tecnico ma soprattutto in modo chiaro.
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Daniel Mauser Dec 01, 2022
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I found this book well-structured and written, with an excellent breakdown covering all OPNsense features end-to-end. Each chapter starts with concepts and flows progressively to more advanced related topics and with implementation examples/troubleshooting. Therefore, the book can be read end-to-end if you want to explore all features or used as an on-time reference, depending on your needs.For the next release, I would probably recommend adding some real-world networking security scenarios, for example, lab exercises building two OPNSenses and building those features Site-to-Site VPN, User VPN, and NAT on top, and the reader can have an opportunity to see them working (that can be built on top of virtualization or over the Cloud).Even with that, I still give five stars for the great work done, and definitively, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get exposed to OPNsense and how great this open-source firewall is.
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R. PEARSON Jul 12, 2024
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Well written and with clear explanations
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Aurond Van helder Nov 30, 2022
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It's an "okay" book to get you understand and learn the basics with a few nice to have examples in it.
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BeHi Jul 02, 2022
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Im Vergleich zu dem einzigen derzeit erhältlichen deutschsprachigen Buch zu OPNsense ist dieses, obwohl in Englisch verfasst, für mich viel verständlicher und hinsichtlich der Anschaulichkeit um Welten besser. Es ist didaktisch vorbildlich aufgebaut und in sehr klarer Sprache geschrieben. Besonders in den ersten Kapiteln werden mit "Proposed exercises" Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zur Umsetzung vorgegebener Aufgaben geliefert. Zu Beginn jedes Kapitels wird auf nötiges Vorwissen zu den Inhalten hingewiesen, so dass man eventuelle Wissenslücken schließen kann. Oft werden dazu auch konkrete Links angegeben, über die man entsprechende ergänzende Informationen finden kann. Zum Ende vieler Kapitel gibt es Troubleshooting-Abschnitte, die sehr hilfreich sind, da man anfangs sicher häufiger die Erfahrung macht, dass Dinge nicht auf Anhieb so funktionieren, wie man es sich erhofft hat. Hinsichtlich Umfang und Ausführlichkeit lässt die Beschreibung der Programmfunktionen keine Wünsche offen. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass die sehr komplexen Einstellungs- und Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten von OPNsense fast vollständig dargestellt werden (außer im Kapitel 13 "Web Proxy", wo das schlichtweg nicht möglich wäre, ohne den Umfang des Buches zu sprengen).Ich habe nur eines vermisst: Im Kapitel 5 ("Firewall"), das vermutlich für Einsteiger mit das wichtigste ist, wird man zwar gut darin angeleitet, Firewall-Regeln praktisch zu implementieren, welche Regeln sinnvoll sind und wie sie inhaltlich am besten konfiguriert werden sollten, um sein Netzwerk zu schützen, wird nicht erklärt. Mir ist klar, dass es hinsichtlich sinnvoller Rulesets keine allgemeingültigen Ratschläge geben kann, da jedes Netzwerk individuelle Bedingungen mit sich bringt. Aber ein paar Anregungen zu do's and don'ts oder best practices, vielleicht an konstruierten Beispielfällen demonstriert, wären sehr wünschenswert gewesen. Angesichts des Untertitles "Beginner to Professional" hatte ich diese (naiverweise?) erhofft.Somit ist dieses Buch in erster Linie ein erstklassiges, umfassendes und sehr gut geschriebenes Bedienungsmanual mit vielen Hintergrundinformationen. Ich kann es empfehlen!
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