Firewalla: Odds and Ends

While writing this series on Firewalla, we wanted to highlight why it is worth considering for improving your home network security and privacy. Firewalla was built with a clear mission: to make secure, intelligent, and privacy-focused networking accessible to everyday users without requiring enterprise-level expertise or complex configurations. By combining powerful hardware with an intuitive app-based interface, it delivers enterprise-grade controls such as device grouping, granular rules, DNS customization, and real-time monitoring in a package designed for home and small business networks. If you are just joining us, here is a quick recap of the earlier articles in this series: Privacy Tool Spotlight: Firewalla Purple and AP7 introduces the hardware, covers initial setup, and explains the core features of the Firewalla Purple and the accompanying AP7 access point. Firewalla: Focusing on Groups and Users dives into user and group management, showing how to organize devices, apply…