Zenarmor® 1.14 has just arrived offering some modern visual and functional GUI improvements made to the built-in OPNsense dashboard. If you are familiar with the Zenconsole cloud-based dashboard that we have extensively showcased in some of my previous articles, you will feel right at home with the dashboard changes made to OPNsense. At first glance,…
Category: Network Security
How to Integrate Wazuh & TheHive – Virtual Lab Building Series Ep: 13
Welcome to my channel! In Episode 13 we will continue building our lab Security Operations Center (SOC) and I am going to show you how to integrate Wazuh, our open-source SIEM platform, with The Hive, our security incident response platform (SIRP) so that we can feed alerts into The Hive allowing analysts to easily, filter…
How MSPs can leverage Active Directory services with Zenarmor®
Microsoft Active Directory, in all its variations, can be considered one of the most widely-used identity and access management services by businesses today. It is a critical foundational component for companies adopting Microsoft services and solutions both on-prem and in the cloud. In this article we are going to explore how managed service providers (MSPs)…
How to deploy Zenarmor® in Layer2 bridge mode on Ubuntu server 22.04
In a previous blog article, we explored the concept of using Zenarmor® as a cloud-deployed secure web gateway (SWG) as part of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, where Zenarmor® was set up inline to filter egress internet traffic. Today, we are going to take a deeper look at the Layer 2 bridge deployment mode available…
How VirtualBox 7.0 networking works – NAT, NAT Network, Internal Network, Bridged Adapter
In this tutorial, we are going to look at VirtualBox networking modes where I will explain how NAT, NAT Network, Internal Network, and Bridge Adapter network modes work as well as provide examples for each use case. I created this video to supplement my cyber security virtual lab building series because I saw many people…
How MSPs can leverage Zenarmor combined with open-source firewalls to increase the value of their offered services
If you are aspiring to run your own managed services provider (MSP) business or already operate one, there has never been a more exciting time for MSPs than present. With more businesses adopting the cloud and staff working remotely from anywhere, it can be challenging for organizations to navigate this new territory, especially when it…
How to use a cloud-deployed Zenarmor SWG to secure cloud resources & users in a SASE architecture.
In this video we are going to explore the idea of using Zenarmor as a secure web gateway (SWG) as part of a basic DIY Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture. My previous videos have been focused mainly on on-prem/home deployments of the Zenarmor Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW), however, today we are going to step into…
How to use CrowdSec on OPNSense including a NAXSI WAF integration.
In this video, I am going to show you how to install CrowdSec, a popular open source collaborative security tool on your OPNSense firewall. In addition to this, I will show you how we can integrate CrowdSec with our already installed NAXSI WAF and leverage it to ban repeated attacks from threat actors attempting to…