Welcome to Pluralsight in the Security Architecture and Engineering Tools
course, featuring pfSense, the open source tool maintained by the team at
Netgate. Firewalls are everywhere in today's world where organizations seek
to secure resources or networks. You, the cybersecurity professional working
with the network infrastructure, can provide a great amount of value to your
organization by understanding both the role pfSense plays as a firewall and
how pfSense can be used to help manage authentication and access control.
PfSense is a tool that allows us to build segmentation into the network,
control network traffic, and terminate VPN connections.
It also has many expanded features such as adding in
NetFlow capabilities, IDS and IPS‑type inspection, and
serving as a CA server, to name a few.
In this course, we'll be focusing on pfSense in relation to the
Protect function of the NIST cybersecurity framework.
Specifically, we'll be looking at the identity management,
authentication, and access control category and its subcategories,
PR.AC‑3 and PR.AC‑5, which ensures that remote access is managed
properly and that the network integrity is protected.
So come join me, Joe Abraham, as we learn about Identity Management,
Authentication, and Access Control with pfSense here at Pluralsight.