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Website for Sending Self-Destruct Messages

Have you ever wanted to send someone a PSK for a VPN as an example and cannot use an encrypted…

By Manny Fernandez

March 8, 2020

Using OpenSSL to encrypt files

I am a big user of PGP and use it regularly to send encrypted email to colleagues and friends that…

By Manny Fernandez

March 7, 2020

Debugging Fortigate GUI from the CLI

Have you ever gotten a strange failure in the Fortigate GUI?  It is sometimes unclear to see what the issue…

By Manny Fernandez

March 6, 2020

Bash Script to dig a list of IP Addresses

Update: I modified the script.  It now gives you an NA or the PTR when available.   I had a customer…

By Manny Fernandez

March 2, 2020

FortiProxy, FortiGate & WCCP

Explicit Proxy has been included on the Fortigate since early on.  However because of competitive reason, Fortinet spun off the…

By Manny Fernandez

February 19, 2020

SSL VPN Realms with Custom URLs

Had a friend write up a great article on using custom URLs for realms on the Fortigate using SSL VPNs.…

By Manny Fernandez

February 10, 2020

SPAN and RSPAN On Cisco Switches

Today I am going to cover a topic that I used to use regularly when I did primarily Cisco implementations.…

By Manny Fernandez

February 9, 2020

Installing SecureCRT on Ubuntu 19.10

Recently I purchased a 1TB SSD drive for my Linux box and also updated the memory to 16GB.  The PC…

By Manny Fernandez

February 6, 2020

Packet Capture on FortiSwitch

While I was troubleshooting my bridging lab article, I stumbled onto a great feature in the FortiSwitch. I was instantly…

By Manny Fernandez

February 2, 2020

Bridged FortiAPs and Managing Remote Switches Across the Bridge

I cannot tell you how many times we run into this.  Sometimes its a stopgap for a customer that is…

By Manny Fernandez

February 2, 2020

Productivity Tool – Trello

So I have known about Trello for some time now.  Never really used it.  However I had a use case…

By Manny Fernandez

February 1, 2020

Live Ubuntu USB with Persistence

My son started a coding club in his middle school.  He teaches coding.  Specifically Python.  The issue is that his…

By Manny Fernandez

January 30, 2020

Creating an .app out of a Script on macOS

Since I am on my backup laptop due to my primary laptop having the keyboard replaced, I wanted to make…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2020

FortiClient 6.2 Basics Deployment

Earlier this week, I decided I would focus on FortiClient in my lab.  I decided to put together a basic…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2020

Adding Sites to Your Safari Top Site Page

So I started using another MacBook while my normal work horse is getting the keyboard replaced.... again.  But I was…

By Manny Fernandez

January 24, 2020

2-Way Sync with RSYNC

I have two MacBook Pros.  One is a 32GB 15" and the other is a 16GB 15".  The 16GB stays…

By Manny Fernandez

January 19, 2020

VX-LAN over IPSec using Fortigate Firewalls

VXLAN is a tunneling protocol that encapsulates layer 2 frames into layer 3 UDP packets.  VXLANs allow you to create…

By Manny Fernandez

January 18, 2020

Policy Disclaimer Option in FortiOS 6.2.3

Yesterday I wrote an article about some advanced policy option in FortiOS 6.2.3.  Here is another one.  In System then Feature…

By Manny Fernandez

January 17, 2020

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

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