E-Book: pfSense – Free, professional Open Source Firewall for the enterprise


E-Book: pfSense - Free, professional Open Source Firewall for the enterprise - Some of my books i wrote for CTS GMBH ( http://CTS.at ) are published by them at DigitalBooks24. The full list of published books is available here . pfSense - F...



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Kontakt E-Book: pfSense - Free, professional Open Source Firewall for the enterprise Some of my books i wrote for CTS GMBH ( http://CTS.at ) are published by them at DigitalBooks24. The full list of published books is available here . pfSense - Free, professional Open Source Firewall for the enterprise Available at DigitalBooks24 here pfSense Free, professional Open Source Firewall for the enterprise The guide shows you how to install pfSense the easy way, optionally enabling GeoIP for country based rules, proxy server with virus scanner, high availability failover and syncing different firewalls with rules from a master firewall. Easy understandable for beginners, helpful for professionals. Best security based on FreeBSD Easy maintainable Scalable Saves your company money Introduction to security In the past services offered on the Internet mostly was unprotected and traffic was sent in clear text between server and user. Firewalls was unknown to most users. Times has changed now, spying on traffic and hacking is all around. Actually it needs less than a few minutes to have the first bots trying all of their exploit scripts against your IP address. Never think you are not important enough for hackers because in the first step bots operates on IP addresses without knowing who is behind this IP address. Things will be exploited pretty fast. A modern firewall with strong security, combined with other prevention methods like transparent proxy servers scanning for viruses, using modern and state-of-the-art server technologies is a must for every system connected to the Internet. After using this great solution a long time I finally wrote this e-book for you. Setup of this guide - Our Goal This guide will show you how to set up a pfSense firewall in a few minutes. We use a virtual machine setup, but you can use any new or old PC and embedded systems whatever suits you best. Table of Contents Introduction Table of Contents Legal Notes Introduction to security Setup of this guide - Our Goal Base setup 10 Our final setup 10 Prepare to install Download the software 11 Install pfSense Prepare boot 12 Boot and setup the basics 12 First boot 16 Assign interfaces and IP addresses 17 Accessing the web interface Continue basic settings 20 Complete the Wizard 20 Detailed Setup System Advanced 23 System Advanced / Admin Access 23 System Advanced / Networking 23 System Advanced / Miscellaneous 24 System Advanced / Notifications 24 System / Certificate Manager 25 System / Certificate Manager / Certificates 25 System / General setup 26 System / High Availability Sync 27 pfsync protocoll / multicast 27 Synchronization Settings (XMLRPC Sync) 27 System / Routing Gateways 29 System / User Manager / Users 29 Interfaces 30 The Firewall / Aliases 32 Firewall / NAT 34 Firewall NAT / Port Forward 34 Firewall NAT / 1:135 Firewall / NAT / Outbound 36 Firewall / Rules 37 Firewall / Rules / WAN 37 Firewall / Rules / LAN 38 Firewall / Rules / LAN / change default rules 38 Firewall / Schedules (time based rules) 40 Firewall / Virtual IPs 40 Services Captive Portal 42 DHCP(4/6) Relay 42 DHCP(4/6) Server 42 DNS Resolver 45 Load Balancer 46 NTP 46 The updated rules 46 VPN Ipsec 48 L2TP 48 OpenVPN 48 Proxy Server Setup Install required packages 50 Proxy server settings 51 Local Cache 51 General 52 Antivirus settings 67 ACLs 68 Authentication / Users 68 Real Time 69 Sync to other servers 69 URL blocking settings 69 General Settings 69 Common ACL 70 XMLRPC Sync 71 Updated firewall rules 71 GeoIP blocking Setup Install required packages 73 Setup Country Blocking 73 General Setup 73 Select countries / regions to block 74 System Backup and Restore More Features About The Author Other Books By (Author) Link List for this e-book pfSense - Project 81 FreeBSD Project Page 81 CTS Solutions Website 81 7-Zip Website 81 Block Lists usable for URL blocking 81 Can I Ask A Favour? About The Author Karl M. Joch is founder of CTS GMBH with more than 30 years experience in national and international projects. He worked in over 15 countries. A CTS Solutions IT-Pro Book