Now, before we close out this course,
I want to go over some additional information that might
help you out in your pfSense journey.
The first thing I want to talk about is some of the capabilities of pfSense
that you can add to immediately make an impact on your network. And some of
these capabilities may require additional packages, some may not. What's
really cool about pfSense's community is that there's a whole bunch of
recipes or cookbooks similar to white papers or configuration manuals that
give us very specific recipes or configuration parameters to use for
different use cases.
So one of them is this one using FTP without a proxy, and here's another
one where we're actually using a transparent proxy.
So these are predefined use cases that expand the capabilities of
pfSense and lay out the configuration for us.
And you can always go to the pfSense website to get involved in either
contributing to the code, or you can contribute by adding in your own
specific use cases and recipes for those. As far as the related
information goes surrounding this course, we have our link to the NIST
cybersecurity framework, which is what we based some of our use cases on
in this course specifically.
And then the MITRE Engage website as well, where it gives us defenders a lot
of great information on how we can mitigate specific attacks or how we can
help detect specific threats or attacks as well.
And with that, we're wrapping up the course.
I really hope that you learned how to set up the pfSense
firewall and use it for those two use cases.
But not only that,
I also hope that you're able to take this knowledge and move
forward with any firewall or any next‑gen device and start with
the basics like we did here with the segmentation and remote
access VPN and expand your knowledge,
grow the capability that you have in your network or your lab.
I really hope that you took some good knowledge away from this and hope that
you'll be able to apply that knowledge in your career somehow,
whether it's setting up a pfSense firewall or another vendor's firewall.
These concepts that we went over today and going through the
configurations to see the nuances that they have will only help
solidify your knowledge in the future and be applicable to those other
firewalls or other technologies that you use.
Thanks so much for viewing this course, and I'll see you in the next one!