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.

Policy Advanced Options in FortiOS 6.2.3

FortiOS 6.2.3 Introduced some interesting new features.  One of those features is the Policy Advanced Options in which some interesting new…

By Manny Fernandez

January 17, 2020

How I Prepared for the NSE 7 Enterprise Firewall Certification

Fortinet has a Network Security Expert (NSE) program that goes from NSE 1 through NSE 8. My job function requires…

By Manny Fernandez

January 16, 2020

Workaround for Running Unetbootin for macOS on Catalina

OK, so here we are again with the "Making a bootable disk in Mac" again.  I was able to find…

By Manny Fernandez

January 11, 2020

FortiWifi with Tunnel and Bridge SSIDs

If you have a FortiWiFi using the internal radio and want to offer a guest SSID that is in "Tunnel"…

By Manny Fernandez

January 11, 2020

Configuring Microsoft CA Services

Microsoft includes a Certificate Authority Server or CA server at no cost to you (you will need a server license…

By Manny Fernandez

January 10, 2020

Adding Color to Your macOS “ls” Output

I am big on having colors on my cli.  It makes things very easy to identify when things are amiss.…

By Manny Fernandez

January 9, 2020

What Diffie-Hellman (DH) Group Should I Use

There has been a lot around Diffie-Hellman groups and which ones to use.  Some think that the bigger the DH…

By Manny Fernandez

January 7, 2020

Fortinet Ports and Protocols

If you are ever wondering what ports needs to be open for various Fortinet products to interact and struggled to…

By Manny Fernandez

January 7, 2020

FortiAnalyzer Primer

Wanted to write an article about the FortiAnalyzer also known as FAZ .  FAZ is a great solution that is "CFO…

By Manny Fernandez

January 5, 2020

Creating Bootable USB Stick using balenaEtcher

I created an article last week about creating a bootable Windows USB thumb-drive.  A colleague of mine, Sam Keys, Suggested…

By Manny Fernandez

January 4, 2020

FAP U431 Not Registering

I had a customer call me about some FortiAPs that where not registering with the FortiGate.  When I logged into…

By Manny Fernandez

January 4, 2020

Encrypting a USB Thumb-Drive on macOS from CLI and GUI

There are a couple of ways to encrypt drives and volumes on macOS X.  I recommend that if you are…

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2020

Securely Wiping a Drive in macOS

I remember when I worked for a Cisco reseller and we went to their offices for some training.  This was…

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2020

Making a Bootable Windows 10 USB on macOS X Catalina

Today I went to my 88 year old father's house to upgrade his Windows 7 computer to Windows 10.  I…

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2020

Troubleshooting BGP on Fortigate Firewalls

In my previous article regarding Wrong Way I did a lot of BGP troubleshooting and thought I would write an…

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2020

Wrong Egress Interface when using VPN

Today I was troubleshooting a problem with a site-to-site, route-based VPN.  Here was the skinny. The Setup I created two…

By Manny Fernandez

December 31, 2019

Unable to empty Trash in macOS X

The Problem There is nothing more annoying to me on my macOS or IOS for that matter than to see…

By Manny Fernandez

December 31, 2019

Password Recovery Options on the Fortigate firewall

Fortigate firewalls have a process for recovering a lost admin password.  You can reset the admin password or reset to…

By Manny Fernandez

December 14, 2019

Complex Passwords for your Fortigate Firewall

Many security frameworks such as NIST, COBIT as well as regulatory bodies such as PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, etc…

By Manny Fernandez

December 11, 2019

Killing a Process in macOS

Sometimes in the course of your day, you may run into an app or a process that wants to behave…

By Manny Fernandez

December 9, 2019

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