DDoS Protection

OPNsense Open Source Firewall vs. Cloudflare Managed WAF

Cloud Firewalls, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, DDoS Protection, IDS/IPS, ModSecurity, NAXSI, OPNsense, pfSense Alternative, SecOps, Suricata, Web Application Firewall

Since both are labelled as “firewall” products, a managed WAF like Cloudflare is often compared to a stateful firewall like OPNsense – which also has WAF capabilities, and much more. This comparison is not really apples-to-apples, especially since OPNsense has…

Defending Against DDoS Reflection Attacks

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Firewalls, Cybersecurity, DDoS Protection

Did you know that your server could unwittingly become part of a “botnet” attacking other servers in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack? The increasing adoption of cloud computing services by business users who are not necessarily technical has…