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Lately, I've been doing a lot of firewall deployment, refreshes, and vendor migrations. It's been a really interesting experience pivoting back and forth between Palo Alto and Juniper. I was studying for JNCIS-ENT, but since all of my work with Juniper has been firewalls the past year I decided to...
In this video, I break down my experience studying for CySA and offer some tips to others on how to study and pass!
I made a video and documentation for threat modeling. This project includes wisdom gathered from the NIST Special publications and ISO 31000 Risk Management Framework. My intent was to distill the information in an easy to digest format so normal people can implement threat modeling and risk management to protect...
I recently completed a PAN troubleshooting class which explained in depth how the PANs process traffic, and taught how to troubleshoot via the CLI. The course had lots of really helpful and informative labs to put it all into practice. Plus my instructor was top notch!
### Migrating from Port Security to 802.1x: A Focus on Machine-Based Certificate Authentication As network security continues to evolve, many organizations are moving away from traditional **Port Security** in favor of the more secure and scalable **802.1x** protocol. In my experience, machine-based authentication, particularly using certificates, offers one of the...
