Tag Archives: fortinet

DNS over TLS (DoT) on the Fortigate

I recently wrote an article about the difference between DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS and the differences between…

By Manny Fernandez

November 19, 2019

FortiOS to PANOS Site-to-Site VPN

In this article, I am using "WAY OLD" PAN OS.  Mostly because I no longer own an updated PAN box.…

By Manny Fernandez

November 17, 2019

Troubleshooting IPSec VPNs on Fortigate Firewalls

Lets start with a little primer on IPSec.  I am going to describe some concepts of IPSec VPNs. IPSec Primer…

By Manny Fernandez

November 12, 2019

Route-Based VPN between Cisco Router and Fortigate Firewall using OSPF

Earlier, I wrote an article showing how to do a VTI (Virtual Tunnel Interface) from a Cisco ASA to a…

By Manny Fernandez

November 10, 2019

ASA Route-Based VPN (VTI) with Fortigate Firewall

  Customer had a question about creating a route-based VPN between a Cisco ASA and a Fortigate.  Traditionally, the ASA…

By Manny Fernandez

November 7, 2019

Running a FortiTest with FortiTester

Earlier, I wrote an article on upgrading the FortiTester.  At the time, I did not have any SFPs for 10GB…

By Manny Fernandez

November 6, 2019

Upgrading a FortiTester

In preparation for a Proof-of-Concept with a customer where they wanted to test the breaking point of a FortiGate firewall,…

By Manny Fernandez

November 5, 2019

Fortinet Security Fabric in Action

A colleague of mine, Chris Fore, SE in the San Fransisco Bay Area created an amazing video showing the Fortinet…

By Manny Fernandez

November 2, 2019

Upgrading Code on FortiFones

There are different models of the FortiFones.  Below I will show the basic upgrade process for the two GUI methods…

By Manny Fernandez

October 30, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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