Safer @ Home with pfSense®: Recipes to secure your home and family's internet experience
About this ebook
Book Description
pfSense® is a powerful, commercial-grade firewall that provides capabilities far beyond what you can get in consumer products. This book will walk you through setting up your pfSense® firewall with many easy-to-follow recipes to choose from, depending on your needs.
What you will learn
* Blocking malware, phishing, and malicious sites and countries
* Hiding your DNS traffic from ISP snooping
* Reducing the burden that advertising has on your browsing
* Isolating your vulnerable IoT devices using VLANs
* Setting up your firewall to provide you with reports on matters that need your attention
* Resolving buffer bloat to maximize your internet connection
* Enabling remote access using VPNs
* Managing, documenting, updating, and backing up your firewall configuration
Who this book is for
This book is for those with an introductory understanding of networking, at least networking terms like subnets. Prior knowledge of firewalls would be helpful but is not required. Most important is a desire and willingness to "get your hands dirty", in both setting up your firewall and understanding how to utilize it to protect your home and business.
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About the author
Michael Lines is an expert in information security. In this book, he provides a guide for consumers and small businesses on how they can reduce their exposure to internet threats by leveraging the pfSense® firewall.
