Tag Archives: fortinet

Perimeter Switch Configuration with Fortiswitch (Non-Fortilink)

One of the designs I normally do for customers when they purchase Highly Available firewalls is HA perimeter switches.  When…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

Configuring SNMP v3 on Fortigate

When using SNMP to monitor the devices on your network, more especially your firewall, one should not use SNMP v1…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

Writting Custom IPS Signatures on Fortigate

Yesterday, I was playing around and wanted to create some custom IPS signatures.   Defining the signature Use Case -…

By Manny Fernandez

April 30, 2019

Basic Deployment of FortiNAC – Part 1

FortiNAC, formally Bradford Networks was acquired by Fortinet in June of 2018.  Although Bradford was a great solution, joining the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 25, 2019

Secure LDAP and AD Password Change via Forticlient

First of all, I wanted to give credit to a good friend of mine (Brian Modlin) that hit me up…

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2019

Using OpenSSL for your SSL Decryption and distributing the cert via GPO

I have another post from a while back that uses Microsoft CA services which I will be updating in the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 7, 2019

FortiAPs in Bridge Mode

A good friend and colleague of mine wrote a great Bridged AP configuration blog post using FortiAPs and I wanted…

By Manny Fernandez

March 27, 2019

Fortigate in One-Arm Sniffer Mode

Not sure if you got the 'Featured Image' (One Arm and the nose as the 'sniffer') OK.  I am done…

By Manny Fernandez

March 21, 2019

FortiView Capabilities

A few years ago, I worked for a reseller of networking and security.  I created their managed security services practice.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 18, 2019

Configuring Custom NTP Server on Fortigate

The Fortigate firewall comes pre-configured to use the Fortiguard time sources via NTP.  You can also configure the Fortigate to…

By Manny Fernandez

March 15, 2019

Understanding Fortigate Logging

In this blog post, we are going to analyze some log files from my Fortigate to describe the different sections…

By Manny Fernandez

March 13, 2019

FortiManager VM Requirements

When sizing out a VM FortiAnalyzer, make sure you have the correct sizing to handle the load from a logs…

By Manny Fernandez

March 11, 2019

FortiAnalyzer VM Requirements

When sizing out a VM FortiAnalyzer, make sure you have the correct sizing to handle the load from a logs…

By Manny Fernandez

March 11, 2019

Configuring OSPF on Fortigate

The Fortigate is capable of doing OSPF, BGP, and RIP from a dynamic routing protocol perspective. It is pretty straight…

By Manny Fernandez

March 9, 2019

Fortigate FGCP vs FGSP for High Availability

Fortigate Clustering Protocol (FGCP) I have been working on Fortinet Fortigates for over two years now. Most customer that do…

By Manny Fernandez

March 6, 2019

Fortitoken with Active Directory on Fortigate

Yesterday I wrote a blogpost about two-factor authentication using Duo, Active Directory, Duo Proxy Auth and Fortigate. I mentioned that…

By Manny Fernandez

February 20, 2019

Duo Security 2FA with Fortigate Firewalls

Although Fortinet has a great 2FA solution (FortiToken) which is simple to use and does not require anything extra, there…

By Manny Fernandez

February 19, 2019

Gateway IP and interface conflict with Static Route 1

Fortigate 6.0.3 has a bug that will give you the "Gateway IP and interface conflict with Static Route 1” This…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Using Tags on the Fortigate Firewall

Tags are something that I have adopted into my workflow on most applications. I use Tags in Evernote, OmniFocus, macOS,…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Renaming HA Fortigate Firewall after it is in HA Cluster

If you are 'IT-OCD' like me, you hate to connect to a Fortigate and see that the devices have their…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

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