From a practical perspective, I’m good with anything above/including the bottom left to top right diagonal. It’s hard to argue with the effectiveness of an excavator if you know where the fiber optics are buried though.

You had me at “Purity” and “Firewall” on the same slide

I don’t quite see how iptables ended up in the dedicated network device row. I assume they don’t mean the Linux iptables?

Where does Opnsense land in here. And also, what does any of this mean?