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Almost 5 years ago
Answered a question: What Is The Biggest Difference Between Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto?
Hello there. That is a valid question many would have when they evaluate a product. However comparison of Wildfire and Cisco NGFW would not be correct. It should be compared with what is known as Threatgrid from Cisco which does the same function of sand boxing as that of…
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: If you could go back, would you change your decision to buy that firewall and why?
This answer depends on the provider one has. These days people in enterprise are moving away from big names to Fortinet, WatchGuard
I would recommend them to stick to secure architecture than just names. Check the frequency at which their threat database is updated. Ask…
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform: A flexible and easy-to-deploy solution for reducing bandwidth consumption
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Ivanti Connect Secure: The flexibility enables us to design solutions well, save effort and cost, and better support customers
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks: Protects cloud data at rest and sends valuable notifications in a timely manner
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Juniper SRX Series Firewall: Enables us to integrate a firewall and router in a single product but IPS needs improvement
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Has next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection but the CLI needs to be simplified
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of CloudStack: User-friendly, scalable, and easy API use
Over 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: Traffic is scanned in a single flow which improves the response times for the user
Over 6 years ago
Contributed a review of Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL]: The solution lacks integration with SDN architecture. However, it does feature intuitive proxy policy deployment using a VPN
Over 7 years ago
Commented on The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.
Hello Orlee
Thanks for reaching out to me. The documentation covers the entirity of the product along with guide to why that feature is enriching. Most vendors tend to forget that the documentation is written to keep the end user being a completely newbie. They just…
About 8 years ago
Contributed a review of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.
About 8 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Firewalls, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
There are already some good answers about it but this is what I understand for a firewall. It is a luxury when compared in a networking domain. So basics first, we would need to suit your networking requirement. For this you need to settle down for Vendor whom you need to…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.
There are only few which have VPN terminated directly on the PA with other vendors. On those scenario they work decently. However, there were some odd cases where in relying did not work for some reason. For that we cleared some session and made the device as responder to…
Over 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.
Projects
Over 9 years ago
SIEM RearchitectingSIEM RearchitectingDeployed the solution in distributed architecture as well as enterprise one. Have deployed the solution with and without AIE to get existing issues resolved and make the system robust.
Over 5 years ago
Azure Integration for Hybrid CloudIntegration of Azure for NFV services platform. Albeit a POC but was fun to do this to determine how to go ahead and derive a Hybrid Cloud with MSP services.
Reviews
Over 5 years ago
Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform
Over 5 years ago
Ivanti Connect Secure
Over 5 years ago
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks
Over 5 years ago
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
Over 5 years ago
Cisco Secure Firewall
Over 5 years ago
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Over 6 years ago
Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL]
About 8 years ago
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Over 9 years ago
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Questions
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Almost 5 years ago
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
About 5 years ago
Firewalls
About 8 years ago
Firewalls
Comments
Over 7 years ago
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
Over 9 years ago
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
About me
With 7+ years of IT / Telco industry R&D experience as Architect, Service Delivery, Operations Engineer across various platforms like ECL, AWS Direct Connect, Azure, Cisco, Juniper, SDN, NFV, SD-WAN, MCC holds a certification in CCIE and PCNSE and understanding of API (Rest and SOAP).
Has good proficiency in Scripting especially in BASH (Shell Scripting).
Experience in IT cloud platform architect and design experience (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
In-depth knowledge in designing patterns, enterprise integration patterns and patterns for modern enterprise architecture which includes
- Networking,
- Linux,
- Software-defined networking,
- Network virtualization,
- Open protocols,
- Application acceleration
- Load balancing,
- DNS,
- Virtual private networks and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
· Strong R&D background on modern XaaS cloud infrastructure and platform. In-depth knowledge about IP network architecture
· Deep knowledge with any of the following open source projects: OpenStack, CloudStack, ELK, MySQL, OpenNMS Horizon.
· Deep product knowledge, understanding and implementation across: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
· Experience in designing virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
· An understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies
· Experience with automation and DevOps principles
Area of Expertise include Pricing, Consulting, Solution Designing, Implementing, RFXs,, SoWs, along with Network administration,
Looking for challenging opportunity If you have one reach out to me to determine if it works.
Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
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