Hello, and welcome to the course I wish I had when I started out with pfSense.
My name is Stefan, and I am an officially certified pfSense professional. I had the pleasure of learning what I know directly from Jim Thompson (the CTO and a Core Team Member of Netgate/pfSense).
After finishing this course, you will know everything you need to operate all the basic functions of a pfSense firewall with confidence. You will also learn how to navigate through your firewall with ease. You can use this knowledge if you want to implement a pfSense firewall into your home network, but you will also be able to integrate and operate a pfSense firewall in a business environment. This is a hands-on course – you are encouraged to follow through with all of the steps as I do them on your firewall.
Please note that you don’t need a physical appliance to follow along with this course. A computer with 8GB of RAM is enough to run a virtual machine with pfSense (covered in the course).
Since integrating pfSense into my home network many years ago, I immediately fell in love with it. Back then, there were hardly any guides or tutorials for pfSense – so I decided to create my own – which has helped to turn my YouTube channel and my blog into one of the most popular resources for pfSense on the internet.
I have also worked with pfSense professionally in a startup for several years, where I built a complete hybrid-cloud setup using multiple pfSense firewalls – so I have seen both worlds.
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This is the only Udemy course taught by an officially certified pfSense professional.
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Because of my experience with the community of my blog and my YouTube channel, I know what people struggle with most, and I pay extra attention to those topics.
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I leave nothing out – I don’t assume you have any prior knowledge.
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Everything is up-to-date – this course was made with pfSense 2.5 and is fully compatible with pfSense 2.6.
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This course will always stay up-to-date. If anything changes, I update the course accordingly
In the end, I also tried to make this course fun. I am not a fan of “dry” content, so I’m throwing a lame dad joke in here and there to loosen things up and keep you motivated.
2023 Update: This course has been updated to use the latest version of VirtualBox (7.X)
