Case Study – Using pfSense in the cloud while using Unifi at multiple sites around the world Our client had Unifi gear at each site around the world – about 6 sites. The client intended to put their servers in the AWS cloud and link each site to the AWS
Read moreReplacing Firewalls in a Large Medical Corporation
Case Study – Replacing Firewalls in a Large Medical Corporation, and building a large site-to-site VPN with remote-access A client we’ve worked with for a few years decided to move from their existing firewall brand and model to Netgate pfSense. AGIX is a Netgate partner and well suited to assist,
Read moreHigh Performance Health Services Database
Case Study – Boosting performance of a customer management system and hardening systems to improve the cybersecurity posture. A client recently approached us looking for a way to improve the performance of their client management solution (CMS). Staff were complaining of long wait times for reports, slow responses while navigating
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pfBlockerNG and Whitelisting Internal Source Addresses – pfSense
This article explains a method of whitelisting one or more devices on your internal network so that pfBlockerNG doesn’t block those devices/servers due to any configured restrictions. For example, you might block a country using pfBlockerNG’s GeoIP filtering, but you may need one of your internal devices to be able
Read moreCyber Insurance Vs General Business Liability Insurance
This content was generated with the assistance of AI. The information has not been validated. AGIX is not an insurance company. Do not use this information to make your insurance decisions. Here is a comparison table highlighting the coverage categories of General Business Liability Insurance versus Cyber Insurance, including categories
Read morepfSense Cannot allocate memory with pfBlockerNG – Firewall Rules Not Working
This article discusses the cause and solution to the error message “Cannot allocate memory” relating to pfBlockerBG. In this scenario, we’re using a Netgate 2100 Base firewall appliance. The firewall was receiving the following error message when reloading the filter rules (in “Status – Filter Reload“). There were error(s) loading
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Synology NAS Not Reporting Disk Issues, But Should
This article describes a situation where the Synology 720+ NAS has poor write performance due to a disk issue. However, the NAS is not reporting an issue. SMART is reporting that everything is OK. First, the symptoms. The following two screenshots show the actual speed when the disk was in
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Advert Blocking Comparison Between pfBlockerNG & AdBlocker
This article is a quick comparison of advert blocking for web browsing between pfBlockerNG DNS filtering, and the web browser plugin Ad Blocker. This is hardly scientific, but it does give an idea of how effective each are with basic settings. I’m sure with more effort, the impact could be
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Synology NAS & UniFi Switch LACP/Aggregation (802.3ad)
This article shows how to configure the Synology NAS and UniFi switch to use multiple ethernet connections to increase speed. In this article, we’re using two Ethernet cables, but more is possible too. The hardware used in this article are: Synology NAS DS720+ running DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 5 UniFi US-8-60W
Read moreInstalling & Configuring Zabbix Agent2 on Ubuntu
This article demonstrates how to install and configure the Zabbix Agent2. Our Zabbix server is already up and running, but the host (that we’re about to add) isn’t listed in Zabbix yet. On the Zabbix server: Log into the Zabbix web portal => Data collection => Hosts => Create host
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