Is Nanobsd somehow protected?
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Hi,
I was looking around the Internet for information about whether the pfSense OS is hardened against any attacks. I'm using the embedded version using NanoBSD. I need to know three parts:
Are there any known attacks against vanilla NanoBSD/FreeBSD?
Is the pfSense version protected against these attack by default?
If not, can I manually add protection against these attacks?Thank you for your attention. I will be grateful for any information you can provide.
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what attacks?
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Yeah, it's tough to answer that question without more detail.
It's a firewall so by definition it's hardened against attack. All connections from the external interface are blocked by default.
Potentially you can reduce the attack surface further by blocking all connections from the internal interface(s) except those you wish to allow.
Steve
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NanoBSD is no more secure or protected than the standard FreeBSD installation is. From the functional point of view they are identical. The differences are only in the way the configuration files are handled to reduce unnecessary writes on media that doesn't cope well with excessive writing such as CF cards.
