Monthly Archives: April 2019

Writting Custom IPS Signatures on Fortigate

Yesterday, I was playing around and wanted to create some custom IPS signatures.   Defining the signature Use Case -…

By Manny Fernandez

April 30, 2019

Basic Deployment of FortiNAC – Part 1

FortiNAC, formally Bradford Networks was acquired by Fortinet in June of 2018.  Although Bradford was a great solution, joining the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 25, 2019

Installing Greenbone Vulnerability Manager

If you have even followed InfoSec, Cyber or whatever you want to call it, you will know that vulnerable code…

By Manny Fernandez

April 24, 2019

iperf for Network Geeks

Throughout my career (over 27 years as of the writing of this post), I have needed to identify where problems…

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2019

Secure LDAP and AD Password Change via Forticlient

First of all, I wanted to give credit to a good friend of mine (Brian Modlin) that hit me up…

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2019

Disabling Weak Ciphers on Fortigate Firewalls

A customer of mine sent me an email after having a vulnerability assessment done against his environment.  He got back…

By Manny Fernandez

April 14, 2019

Configuring LDAP Authentication for Remote Access VPN

The Fortigate platform allows for multiple authentication options for VPNs.  In the past, I used a lot of Cisco ASA…

By Manny Fernandez

April 9, 2019

Using NMAP

On September 1, 1997, Nmap was first released in Phrack magazine Issue 51, Article 11.  Since then it has been…

By Manny Fernandez

April 7, 2019

Using OpenSSL for your SSL Decryption and distributing the cert via GPO

I have another post from a while back that uses Microsoft CA services which I will be updating in the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 7, 2019

Central NAT vs Policy NAT

In the past, Fortigate used what was known as 'Policy NAT' where the outbound NAT was defined in the policy.…

By Manny Fernandez

April 5, 2019

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