I'm a novice slowly building out some equipment in my house and would like to add some security for my network. I have a couple of VM's accessible over the internet one of which is owncloud that I'd like to protect/harden. Is pfsense the way to go? I read about sophos as well and really not sure what's the best for me - although I do enjoy all this, my time is limited so something that has a quick time to setup is preferred. But I don't want to spend $700 on a prebuild pfsense appliance. I was thinking of pfsense with snort for IDS.
My questions is both HW and SW. Was thinking a 1U ATOM 525 off ebay for $100 and pfsense/snort.
Any considerations I should be thinking about?
Thanks
My questions is both HW and SW. Was thinking a 1U ATOM 525 off ebay for $100 and pfsense/snort.
Any considerations I should be thinking about?
Thanks