Making security simple to understand and accessible to the masses is half the battle. @biosshadow does a great job of walking you through the conversion of a random disused pc (that sooner or later we’ll end up with) and making it a functional, feature-rich firewall. If you’re curious about linux, open source resources, or the community’s perpetual ongoing quest to immerse in better security, give @biosshadow a follow on twitter, he’s always a great resource for howto links and resources, including the excellent howto’s he develops himself.

His regular blog is in my permanent rss reader list at geek-crack.com and is most worthy of an add to your google reader blog list.

This particular posting is being hosted by @ax0n’s excellent HiR Report site, another great security and admin blog:

Pfsense is a free, as in speech and beer, firewall for home, business, and any other purpose you can think of. It’s based on FreeBSD, so it’s very stable and has a very good TCP/IP stack. It has a serious feature list.

via HiR Information Report: Guest Post: Setting up a Pfsense firewall.