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.

SED and AWK for scripting configs

Let me start by saying that I did not write this code, but I have used it for many years.…

By Manny Fernandez

October 27, 2019

Showing Hidden Files in macOS

Quick little article.  I had a debacle with my Catalina and Mail.app.  I do NOT use Outlook, mostly because Micro$oft…

By Manny Fernandez

October 20, 2019

IPv6 VPNs in Fortigate Firewalls

I have two Fortigate 140Es in my environment.  SecPrimate-01 and SecPrimate-02.  The SecPrimate-01 is using the Mariner color while the…

By Manny Fernandez

October 20, 2019

Adding Static Routes on Different OS’s

Quick post on static routes.  Today I needed to have my MacBook connected to a wired connection after upgrading to…

By Manny Fernandez

October 19, 2019

Manually Uninstalling FortiClient on MacOS

Recently I did the Catalina Upgrade to both of my MacBook Pros.  FortiClient was working on both.  Then on ONE…

By Manny Fernandez

October 18, 2019

Removing the ZSH warning on macOS Catalina

OK, so Apple just release (couple of days as of this writing) the macOS Catalina.  Catalina now uses the ZSH…

By Manny Fernandez

October 11, 2019

Standalone FortiExtender Walkthrough

Today I was playing around with the FortiExtender and logged in to the device itself.  For those not familiar with…

By Manny Fernandez

October 2, 2019

Upgrading Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS to 19.0.4

If you are running Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS you CAN upgrade to 19.0.4.  LTS is long-term support while the non-LTS is…

By Manny Fernandez

October 2, 2019

WiFi Best Practices Part 1

Credit: This article was written by a friend and colleague Bryan Wolski.  He is a great asset to our team…

By Manny Fernandez

September 25, 2019

FortiVoice Enterprise Upgrade to 6x

Disclaimer: This is a new release and may contain bugs.  I do NOT recommend upgrading to it in a full…

By Manny Fernandez

September 25, 2019

Interacting with a decoy in FortiDeceptor

Yesterday, I wrote a post showing how to deploy a Decoy and the Lures .  It did not show any of the…

By Manny Fernandez

September 24, 2019

Deploying a Decoy in FortiDeceptor

For those not familiar with FortiDeceptor, it is a fairly new product but has been adopted by some of my…

By Manny Fernandez

September 23, 2019

Using Dynamic Address Lists in Fortigate Firewalls using 6.2.+

In 6.0, Fortinet released the ability to pull IP addresses from a web-server and use them in the configuration.  However…

By Manny Fernandez

September 20, 2019

Installing Tor on Ubuntu 19.04 and Windows 10

Yesterday I wrote a post about installing Tor on macOS.  I got a lot of feedback about other OS's.  I…

By Manny Fernandez

September 19, 2019

Login Banner on Fortigate Firewalls

Not only is it good InfoSec Hygiene but most regulatory bodies require login banners.  With the Fortigate, it is easy…

By Manny Fernandez

September 19, 2019

Setting Up Tor On macOS

Tor is an Open-Source project created in the 90's by United States Naval Research Laboratory.  Tor give you a level…

By Manny Fernandez

September 18, 2019

Installing and Configuring FSSO

Fortinet Single Sign On or FSSO as it is called, is an agent that is installed on a Windows server…

By Manny Fernandez

September 13, 2019

Adding DNS Suffix to your SSL VPN

Many times you set up an SSL VPN connection to the office and you try to connect to mail however, even…

By Manny Fernandez

September 10, 2019

Using Let’sEncrypt with Fortigate Firewalls

Wanted to socialize this important Blog Post from my friend and colleague Matt Sherif.  In this post, he describes how…

By Manny Fernandez

September 9, 2019

Using Active Directory Groups to Control Web Content Policies

This is another question I get asked a lot.  When customers first deploy a Fortigate firewall and they have migrated…

By Manny Fernandez

September 9, 2019

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