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Geo-Blocking with Local In Policy

Sometimes when you set up a standard policy to geo block some countries, you will still see attacks from certain…

By Manny Fernandez

February 10, 2022

How DNS Works

Without DNS (Domain Name System) the Internet would be a difficult place to play, and that is looking at it…

By Manny Fernandez

October 1, 2021

DNS Doctoring on FortiGate

Sometimes, you have a scenario where your internal servers or devices are using external DNS servers (e.g. 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.2…

By Manny Fernandez

August 2, 2021

Setting up Alerts in Observium Community Edition

In this article, I am going to show you how I set up Observium to send me an email alert…

By Manny Fernandez

July 23, 2020

Dynamic VLANs with Single SSID using FortiAP and FortiAuthenticator

First and foremost, a special shout out to a friend that helped with this config.  Juan Perez, thank you brother.…

By Manny Fernandez

June 26, 2020

What Happens When Your Support Lapses on a FortiGate?

In many cases, you may not realize it when your FortiGate support lapses. The FortiGate will lose the ability to…

By Manny Fernandez

June 9, 2020

How I Share my Fujitsu iX1500 with my family

In the past, I had a Fujitsu iX500 scanner.  It was attached to an iMac in my old office at…

By Manny Fernandez

May 5, 2020

Deploying FortiAnalyzer in AWS

I have been playing with AWS a lot since the pandemic.  I wrote another article about adding some VIPs using…

By Manny Fernandez

April 22, 2020

Browser Wars on my Mac

I run the following browser on my MacBook Pro Safari (Obviously) Firefox Chrome Brave Opera Microsoft Edge Tor I wanted…

By Manny Fernandez

April 18, 2020

macOS 10.15.4 Broke my FortiClient

When I installed the macOS 10.15.4, my FortiClient was failing when connecting to any one of my customer's VPNs.  I…

By Manny Fernandez

March 29, 2020

FortiExtender on FortiCloud

  I recently set up a FortiExtender in my lab but I didn't use my FortiGate as the controller/manager. You…

By Manny Fernandez

March 23, 2020

Deploying a FortiAP as a remote AP for remote VPN access

A friend, colleague and fellow blogger Matt Sherif wrote a great article on using the FortiAP as a remote access…

By Manny Fernandez

March 21, 2020

Homebrew and Catalina FIX

As you all may have experienced, there is a problem with macOS Catalina and Homebrew.  When trying to install packages…

By Manny Fernandez

November 25, 2019

Using OpenSSL for Your Internal Servers

If you are like me, you have a bunch of servers and applications that run internally at home or in…

By Manny Fernandez

December 4, 2018

Fortigate Web-content Overide

Use Case: You have web content profiles set up and a help desk that is fielding calls from unhappy users…

By Manny Fernandez

October 28, 2018

Configuring FortiAnalyzer Mail Settings for STARTTLS

When configuring your FortiAuthenticator for email alerts, there is no section in the GUI to enable/disable STARTTLS. However as most…

By Manny Fernandez

October 31, 2017

Apple Spotlight not allowing typing

OK the other day, I noticed that when I typed ⌘ ␣ (or command space) on my macOS Sierra, the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 26, 2017

Staying Safe On-Line in 2017

Regarding smoke detectors in your home, “they” say you should change the batteries in these devices when the time changes…

By Manny Fernandez

January 30, 2017
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Domain Password Audit Tool

[embed width="480" height="270"]http://youtu.be/nqrYBJI5aBI[/embed]Here is a great video by some folks @ Black Hills Information Security http://www.blackhillsinfosec.com

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2017

US Cert – SB16-284: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 3, 2016

This is a share from US-Cert's website. The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have…

By Manny Fernandez

October 10, 2016

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