![]() ![]() After you have set up your SG-1100 following the instructions under " Recipe One - The basic ingredients", which recipe you choose to apply next is up to you based on your needs. This book is organized as a series of recipes, where each recipe solves a particular security or privacy problem. While my recommendations assume that you have an SG-1100 appliance, these recipes are just as applicable to any other Netgate appliance or even your own firewall if you have built it using an old PC and the free pfSense® community edition software⁵. In this book, I will describe how to set up Netgate’s SG-1100 appliance⁴ to secure a typical consumer (or small business) network. There is an active and free online support community³ available to help individuals configure and use the pfSense® software, as well as paid support and professional services available for businesses. Netgate’s pfSense® is the industry leader in open source firewall software, with over 1 million deployments worldwide to consumers, businesses, educational institutions, and governments. These are the software and hardware appliances from Netgate. There are alternatives that provide true business-grade capabilities for the more hands-on individual, and that do not cost an arm and a leg. When vulnerabilities are detected in these products, the purchaser is unlikely to be informed of their existence, assuming the vendor even bothers to release a patch². The functionality of these devices is limited, their performance abysmal, and their security even worse¹. In many cases, these products are nothing more than primitive routers doing network address translation (NAT) to hide the devices on the individual’s local network devices from the internet. ![]() The protection that consumer-grade routers or WiFi access points provide is often limited at best. This book is intended for technically inclined individuals who want to protect their security and privacy from internet related threats. 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. This book is for those with an introductory understanding of networking, at least networking terms such as subnets. * Managing, documenting, updating and backing up your firewall configuration * Resolving buffer bloat to maximize your internet connection * Setting up your firewall to provide you reports on matters that need your attention * Isolating your vulnerable IoT devices using VLANs * Reducing the burden that advertising has on your browsing * Hiding your DNS traffic from ISP snooping * Blocking malware, phishing and malicious sites and countries This book will walk you through setting up your pfSense® firewall with many easy to follow recipes to choose from, depending on your needs. PfSense® is a powerful, commercial-grade firewall that provides capabilities far beyond what you can get in consumer products. You don't need to risk your security and privacy on consumer-grade security products any longer. ![]()
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