I am a network and security consulting engineer with 15+ years of experience who spent about 16 months (not counting 7+ years of direct experience with Cisco security products leading up to the decision to go for the CCIE 😉 ) pursuing my CCIE Security certification, which I achieved on September 13th, 2023. This blog includes posts related to topics I have studied, am currently studying, and general articles related technologies and integrations I am interested in. I welcome feedback and hope that you find this content useful.
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The Dashboard Isn’t the Answer
It never was. At some point in the last decade, the network and security operations industry collectively decided that the problem was visibility, and that the solution was dashboards. If you could just see everything, in one place, you could fix anything faster. So we built dashboards. We bought tools that promised a single pane…
My First Tech Field Day: Notes from the Edge of the Wave
The TFD Experience About a week ago I attended my first Tech Field Day event, specifically AI Field Day 8, and I’m still processing it. I’ve been to many technical conferences: I’m a regular at Cisco Live, attended VMware events, Microsoft TechEd back when that was a thing, etc. etc. Those events serve a real…
Entering Commands Through the FTD CLI
We all know the architecture of the (cd)FMC-managed FTD prevents you from making local device changes via the CLI – or does it? Technically, yes, however where there is a will, there’s a way. This is one way I have used to consistently add configuration changes to the FTD via CLI. The basics rely on…
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CCIE #TBD 