5 reasons to use Suricata or Snort for your home lab firewall

Your home lab isn't just there for playing around with new operating systems, tools, and self-hosting services to reduce your reliance on the cloud. I mean, it's there for all of those things, but it's also there to learn industry-standard processes and keep on top of where your job might be going in the future. One major component is a hardware firewall, so you can learn about advanced firewall rules and also the other security packages that your firewall's operating system can run.