Netgate pfSense Issue After Returning From Travel

And speaking about pfSense — Coincidence or no?

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Just got back from speaking at the AWS Security Community Day in Mountain View. I spoke about learning network security and using the pfSense firewall in my presentation.

Here’s the full presentation:

Threat Modeling a Batch Job System - AWS Security Community Day

As fate would have it, when I got back my firewall was hosed — again. This is not the first time. I’ve written about bugs, rearranged firewall rules, and gateway IPs changed in such a way that it affected routes, providing access between devices that should not have access like a Ubiquiti device to the internet.