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Author: Jonathan Torian

Jonathan Torian, senior sales engineer for a industry network security company, is a Fortinet Network Security Expert 8 (NSE 8) certified professional. In addition to obtaining the highest certification for Fortinet, he also possesses the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2011 and has more than 10 years experience in Networking and Security. He is an avid technologist and is loves helping people by solving hard problems with great technology solutions.
FortiManager, Infrastructure Security

Using FortiManager to Manage FortiGate Firewall Policies – Part 3 – Single Policy for Multiple FortiGates

Posted onOctober 14, 2019October 14, 2019

This is the third (and final) installment in the three part series regarding managing FortiGate firewalls with the FortiManager. Please review the previous articles on …

FortiManager, Infrastructure Security

Using FortiManager to Manage FortiGate Firewall Policies – Part 2 – Dynamic Objects

Posted onOctober 11, 2019October 11, 2019

This is the second installment of the three part series about using the FortiManager to manage the firewall policy of FortiGates. Review the first article …

FortiManager, Infrastructure Security

Using FortiManager to Manage FortiGate Firewall Policies – Part 1 – Dynamic Interfaces

Posted onOctober 6, 2019October 7, 2019

This is the beginning of a three part series to explain how to use the FortiManager to manage firewall policies on the FortiGate. FortiManager gets …

Linux, Raspberry Pi

Create a Wireless Console Server with Raspberry Pi Zero W

Posted onOctober 3, 2019October 3, 2019

Disclaimer: This is an affiliate link post. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. There is nothing more terrifying to a network/security engineer …

Application Security, FortiAuthenticator, FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiWeb, Infrastructure Security, Network Security, Splunk

Using Syslog-NG to send Fortinet Logs to Splunk

Posted onSeptember 26, 2019September 26, 2019

Introduction As a network security professional, we are constantly tasked with continuous monitoring of different types of network equipment. This could be things like next-generation …

FortiGate, Network Security, Proxmox, Virtualization

Rapid Topology Deployment with Proxmox

Posted onSeptember 16, 2019September 16, 2019

One of the benefits of using Proxmox is the ability to perform management functions via a built-in CLI utility. For a recap of this functionality, …

Proxmox, Virtualization

Increasing Operational Efficiency in Proxmox with PVESH

Posted onAugust 26, 2019August 26, 2019

While Proxmox has a very intuitive WebGUI, it can prove to be tedious when making many different system level changes in short order. It would …

FortiGate, Network Security, Proxmox, Virtualization

Automatically Provision FortiGate VM with Cloud-Init in Proxmox

Posted onAugust 19, 2019August 19, 2019

Have you ever cared to deploy a FortiGate virtual machine in your favorite hypervisor (Proxmox, of course) but dreaded the need of completing the mundane …

FortiGate, Network Security

Central NAT Table in FortiOS

Posted onAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019

In a previous post, I covered the default behavior for Network Address Translation (NAT) in FortiOS. However, understanding that there are, quite often, some difficulties …

FortiGate, Network Security

Network Address Translation in FortiOS (Part 2)

Posted onJuly 22, 2019July 22, 2019

Configuring NAT in FortiOS This article is a continuation of the introduction to Network Address Translation. Please see this link for the previous post. FortiOS …

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