Which Firewall is RIGHT for YOU? pfSense vs. UniFi

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Chapters
00:00 pfSense vs. UniFi
01:45 Which Firewall Models
03:39 Centralized Management and Interface
04:40 License Fees
04:48 Automated Updates
05:20 Change Management
05:55 High Availability
06:48 VLAN Support
07:00 BGP and OSPF
07:20 Captive Portal & Certificates
07:45 Identity Provider Support
08:29 OpenVPN Wireguard and IPSEC
10:13 Automatied Site to Site
10:43 Overlay SDWAN VPN
11:28 IDS and IPS
12:30 Content Filtering
13:12 DNS Filtering and Management
13:51 DHCP
14:18 Traffic Shaping
15:43 Netflow Packet Capture and Diagnostics
16:38 Logging and SIEM integration
17:32 Reverse Proxy
18:07 Firewall Rules
19:29 Unique and Advanced Use Cases
20:30 UniFi and pfsense Security