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Network Analysis with pfSense

pfSense provides network firewall, VPN, and other services to users and network operators. It offers IP and port blocking, VPN termination, and DHCP and DNS services. In this course, you'll learn to detect and block adversary activity using pfSense.

Intermediate
38m
(18)

Created by Joe Abraham

Last Updated Feb 25, 2021

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Network Analysis with pfSense

pfSense provides network firewall, VPN, and other services to users and network operators. It offers IP and port blocking, VPN termination, and DHCP and DNS services. In this course, you'll learn to detect and block adversary activity using pfSense.

Intermediate
38m
(18)

Created by Joe Abraham

Last Updated Feb 25, 2021

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What you'll learn

Cyber attacks are hitting our networks daily, and some of them have become very advanced. Traditional firewalls can be used in order to help the process of detecting and blocking them. In this course, Network Analysis with pfSense, you’ll cover how to utilize pfSense to protect and detect against common attack and exfiltration techniques in an enterprise environment. First, you’ll demonstrate how to setup a decoy VPN server using pfSense to detect compromised accounts. Next, you’ll operate pfSense to block the use of alternate protocols by blocking unnecessary ports and protocols. Finally, you’ll analyze known anonymity and C2 networks and block them using pfSense’s DNS services. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to block and detect these techniques External Remove Services T1133, Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol T1048, and Proxy: Multi-hop Proxy T1090.003 using pfSense.

Network Analysis with pfSense
Intermediate
38m
(18)
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Joe Abraham - Pluralsight course - Network Analysis with pfSense
Joe Abraham
42 courses 4.3 author rating 428 ratings

Joe is a Network Consulting Engineer and has worked in the IT industry since 2010. He has experience in teaching and mentoring IT professionals in both DoD environments and in the civilian sector, in both the networking and IT security fields.

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