Monthly Archives: January 2019

Fortilink over TCP

If you are not familiar with FortiLink, you should get familiar with it. Fortilink allows you to manage FortiSwitches via…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2019

Initial Setup of FortiDeceptor 1000F

Today I recieved my FortiDeceptor 1000F Appliance. For those who are not familiar with the product, it is deception technology…

By Manny Fernandez

January 25, 2019

Locking down your network DNS traffic using Fortinet

Here is a subject that is near-and-dear to me. I love collecting and analyzing DNS traffic. It is extrmemly informative…

By Manny Fernandez

January 24, 2019

Enhancing the security TO the Fortigate, not just THROUGH it.

The IPS policies on the Fortigate are defined and assigned to policies. This means that the packets match the packets…

By Manny Fernandez

January 21, 2019

Renaming Multiple Files in macOS

I attended a partner’s Sales Kick Off meeting this past week. One of the Account Managers left her phone on…

By Manny Fernandez

January 13, 2019

Upgrading my ESXi 6.0 to 6.7

OK, I know. Crazy that I have a 6.0 ESXi server in my midst. The truth is, I do not…

By Manny Fernandez

January 8, 2019

Fortigate HA in 5 Minutes

Here is a quick 5 min HA configuration for the Fortigate. On the Master Fortigate config system ha set group-name…

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2019

Using OpenSSL to Provision Wildcard Certificate

I have my lab set up with plenty of gear from Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and Checkpoint. In order to…

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2019

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