Unifi for Newbies - Securing with Firewall Rules

Video #6 is all about the firewall rules. In this video, we take the network that we have built in this series and add firewall rules to secure it. We have a main network that can reach all other networks, an IOT network that can only get to the internet, a camera network for our Unifi cameras and a Guest network (which we cover in video 5). This is a long video that talks through all the concepts any Unifi Newbie.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:38 Series Review
5:02 Why is this important
9:22 What we are setting up
16:00 Creating the LAN IN Rules
43:15 Creating the LAN Local Rules
1:01:54 FW Rules with PiHole DNS
1:08:59 Wrap-up and Tips

Unifi For Newbies Videos:

[monkeyaround]

I want to thank you again for this whole series. For the amount of effort that you put into this series, I truly think you deserve much more recognition.

[troycarrigan]

This series alone deserves a subscription, including all notifications (which I did). Thank you for all the hard work you put into making your videos. It's much appreciated!

[mikev]

Wanted to swing back here and say thanks. This video was at the core of my network planning, and is the reason my implementation went off without a hitch; and gave me a solid understanding to create some other rules

[JackHanington]

One note on the PiHole DNS portion for anyone dealing with the same issues as me where devices in other VLANs could not connect to the PiHole even though you had all your firewall rules set properly. My Pihole was configure to Allow only local requests (on admin/settings.php?tab=dns). I couldn't get devices on other VLANs to use the PiHole and it was driving me crazy. Once I changed it to "Permit all origins", everything started working. Amazin video BTW. There are so many other videos that are very short and do not explain things as well as you did. Taking the time and even providing the PDF was awesome. Thank you!!!

[chopperdan]

Best video yet. PDF is a bonus that I was going to create. I like the way you've cleaned up the firewall rules from a previous video. Thanks for doing these.

[koputai]

Wow! Great video Tim, I didn’t expect to learn so much about firewall rules all at once.

Thanks for this whole series, it’s fantastic stuff for a Unifi newb like me.

[gioriv]

Thank You so much, this video was such a help for me. Just recently change my network system to UniFi, I have everything running just the way I wanted thanks to You. Blessings!

[bendonahue]

This series is amazing! I love the way you teach. I've learnt a lot about the Unifi system so far, but not just that, I've learnt a lot about networks in general, firewalls, ports etc. I had a basic understanding of them before, but these vids have built on that a lot. Thank you so much. Keep it up :)

[edwind]

Thank you for making this video Tim. You explained the Firewall rules very well. Lot's of other peoples video's race through without thoroughly explaining them.

[valleprotest]

Thanks! Would be absolutely amazing if you could update the video for the new Zone-Based Firewall in the new Unifi Network Controller 9.x 🙏🙏🙏

[IsakBurger]

This is the best VLAN explanation and instruction video I have ever watched. It helped me so much!

[ImaITman]

Hi I work as a network engineer - Firewall rules should ALWAYS encompass every single possible eventuality. So if you're going super secure then you want to allow exactly what you want and then at the bottom if no traffic matches any other parameter you want a deny all rule. Something new comes online that you need to communicate and it's failing then you can add a rule for it. Basically you always want your last rule to be a catch all bucket of some kind.

[TommyBaugh-vqsy]

Thank you for these videos. I now have the Unifi I have always wanted. Your delivery is spot on. Hope folks step up and contribute for all the effort you put into this.

[johnvanwinkle]

Thank you Tim for this video! I come from a PFSense background and I am trying to learn Ubiquiti's way of writing rules. I have watched this several times to make sure I understand and tweak a little at a time. Your explanations are very good and I appreciate the PDF. Keep the Ubiquiti vides

[gregn]

Wow! Complete coverage to help us with Unify/Ubiquity devices... Very well done, Thank you!

[jasonluong]

The fact that this video is over 1 hour long shows that firewalls are a beast.

[MadMike]

Great video! I felt like this video was for my setup since it was Unifi, IOT, firewall and Sonos. I was able to setup everything! Subscribed.

[CTJonathan]

Thank you for creating this video!! Simple, slow and well explained I finally have implemented these firewall rules on my Unifi home network. Others content creators making Unifi videos even though there content is great also forget that some of us are newbies and then need to slow down as you did a phenomenal job doing. I had all this fancy hardware and for the last year I knew that it was only nice looking and not what it was designed to do. Now with these rules, I feel more like my network is more secure and I thank you again for making that happen.

[Hessencemusic]

thank you so so much for this video. It´s one of the best firewall rules explanation I ever watched.. the pdf is a gem to fully understand what´s happening.

[ot]

Got my Unifi gear month ago and your videos have been supper helpful. Thank you !!