Author Archives: Manny Fernandez

I have been in the networking and security field for over 27 years. I started working for resellers back in the Novell days. I obtained my CNE, Master CNE, GroupWise CNE and later moved on to Microsoft with the MCSE. I have obtained numerous industry certifications from Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, RSA, Fortinet, Linux and other. I have worked on every firewall produced since the 1990's from Novell's Border Manager to IP Tables to FortiOS and everything in-between. I have either migrated to or from all of these platforms. It is my passion. I love what I do so I do not consider it work. Today I work for a manufacturer. By far, I enjoy this side much more so hope to continue doing so.

Throw away email

When doing my security “engagements” I sometimes need to create fake accounts on a website.  Most website now have an…

By Manny Fernandez

October 9, 2016
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Sending Self-destruct messages

Sometimes it is necessary to send a secure message that self destructs.  Sometime I use this to send a customer…

By Manny Fernandez

October 9, 2016

Workflow on macOS

I have been currently running Mac OS X for a year (since this writing).  I have become obsessed with workflows.…

By Manny Fernandez

October 9, 2016

IPSec VPN on Cisco ASA using CLI

Cisco is, in my opinion, the most flexible and scalable VPN solution on the market today.  I have used Cisco…

By Manny Fernandez

October 9, 2016

Hurricane Prepardness

      Pre- Season Preparation  Enter the season prepared. Know all evacuation routes if you live close to the…

By Manny Fernandez

October 5, 2016

Packet Capture on Cisco ASA Firewall

This post is a four part post geared at engineers looking to do packet captures on Cisco ASA, PaloAlto and…

By Manny Fernandez

September 29, 2016

rsync in OS X

Recently, I purchased a 1TB 2.5" SSD drive.  The problem I was having was that I was worrying about the…

By Manny Fernandez

September 28, 2016

Apple Mail on macOS Sierra

Last week I upgraded my Mac OS X El Capitan to macOS Sierra.  Doing so, broke many of my mail…

By Manny Fernandez

September 28, 2016

Step up you password game

    The problem A couple of weeks ago, 117 million compromised passwords from LinkedIn’s breach were released.  As expected,…

By Manny Fernandez

June 29, 2016

Context-Based Access Control (CBAC)

CBAC is barely used today. It has long been substituted with Zone-Based Firewall (Discussed later on a different post) and…

By Manny Fernandez

June 29, 2016

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