I just migrated my home firewall to a Firewalla Gold Plus (4x 2.5GbE ports) and configured it to use NextDNS. For quite some time I've been running NextDNS with my old OPNsense firewall. NextDNS is a cloud based DNS service that is very security and privacy oriented. It lets you configure...
I'm a big proponent of using the Windows firewall on all computers, be they clients or servers. It may not be perfect, but it's better than nothing. Layered defenses are key in the enterprise, so protecting each host may save your bacon some day. Many programs automatically add Windows firewall...
On servers that are running Windows server 2008 or later, you can take advantage of the built-in two-way firewall. SQL server firewall rules can be pretty easily created through the GUI, but it can be a bit tedious. So I wrote a little batch file that asks you for an IP...