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Fortigate HA Back-to-Back Gotchas

Recently, I had a customer that deployed two sets of HA Fortigates at two separate locations. Additionally, the customer had…

By Manny Fernandez

October 4, 2018

macOS Mojave and Home Brew

Since I switched Apple as my main computer, I was running Mac Ports https://www.macports.org/ However with the release of macOS…

By Manny Fernandez

October 2, 2018

BSides Miami 2018 Inaugural Conference

For years (4+) I have wanted to bring BSIdes to Miami. I had a long conversation with Jack Daniel regarding…

By Manny Fernandez

September 26, 2018

Removing computer name from my bash prompt

OK, I finally broke down and removed the computer name from my bash prompt. It is truly annoying and useless…

By Manny Fernandez

September 21, 2018

Basic FortiSwitch Set Up

I recieved a FortiSwitch 248E-FPOE switch for my lab. The initial config is very similar to the Fortigate you can…

By Manny Fernandez

September 3, 2018

IKEv2 Dynamic Remote Fortigate to Head-In ASA

Customer had a Cisco ASA 5516-X that we used to replace aging 5510’s. I told the customer that we would…

By Manny Fernandez

September 1, 2018

Wired Captive Portal with Fortigate

Use Case: Customer wanted to have their devices that are authenticated to AD, egress to the Internet without needing to…

By Manny Fernandez

August 31, 2018

Remote Access VPN with ASA as a client

Today I had a customer that was buying two Fortigate 500Es for their datacenter but had some remote offices outside…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2018

External Resources FortiOS 6.0

FortiOS has implemented the long awaited feature of dynamic block lists from external sources such as DShield and others. There…

By Manny Fernandez

April 14, 2018

10 Steps to Presenting Better

In my current job, I regularly present to customers using my computer. Sometimes this is on site, via a GoTo…

By Manny Fernandez

April 3, 2018

Making PopClip work in UltraEdit and SecureCRT

I use PopClip for Mac and it is such an awesome tool. What PopClip does: When you highlight some text,…

By Manny Fernandez

April 2, 2018

Command Line Password Generator

I run macOS High Sierra. When I need to generate a random password, I use an opensource package named pwgen​.…

By Manny Fernandez

April 2, 2018

My Travel Arsenal

For those that have spent a long time on the road, you know how difficult it can be to get…

By Manny Fernandez

March 29, 2018

Fortigate ‘HA’ configuration explained

Last month I wrote a blog post about HA on the ASA. Today, I am writting one on Fortigate HA.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 12, 2018

How DHCP v4 really works

If you ask people how DHCP works, most people will think that a computer gets connected to the network and…

By Manny Fernandez

March 12, 2018

ASA ‘HA’ configuration explained

When configuring the Cisco ASA for High Availability, the failover command is used to configure the devices. A few terms…

By Manny Fernandez

February 27, 2018

Upgrading My 2FA Foo

Today I updated any account I could find that uses 2FA. I chose Authy since it allows me to backup…

By Manny Fernandez

February 13, 2018

Negate Source, Destination or Service

I started working on Firewalls back in the early 90’s. I started on Checkpoint Firewall-1 running on AIX. I soon…

By Manny Fernandez

February 4, 2018

SIP Application Layer Gateway – Cisco and Fortinet

SIP ALG is a feature where the firewall will inspect the SIP packets as they egresses the firewall Purpose of…

By Manny Fernandez

January 23, 2018

Fortigate CLI Tips and Tricks

I am a CLI guy. Make no mistake, I like the GUI but at the end of the day, I…

By Manny Fernandez

December 12, 2017

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