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How Check Point VSX consolidates multiple firewalls onto one clustered pair — a walkthrough of a reference deployment covering virtual systems, VSLS, bonded links, and the design decisions that matter.
How to build a resilient active-passive FortiGate cluster — heartbeat interfaces, session pickup, and testing failover before you rely on it.
Steering traffic by application and link quality on FortiGate SD-WAN — performance SLAs, rules, and what to measure before and after.
Bringing up an IPsec tunnel between two FortiGate firewalls, from phase 1/2 to routing and the checks that confirm it's actually up.
Split-tunnel GlobalProtect done right — which routes go through the tunnel, DNS behaviour, and the trade-offs to weigh.
Turning on outbound SSL decryption without breaking the internet — policy, exclusions, and certificate handling.
A self-registration guest portal on Cisco ISE — sponsor flows, authorization, and keeping guests off the corporate VLAN.
Wired 802.1X on Catalyst with ISE — authentication order, MAB fallback, and rolling it out without locking people out.
Mapping users to traffic with Check Point Identity Awareness and AD Query — for identity-based policy that actually holds.
Standing up a ClusterXL high-availability pair — sync networks, cluster interfaces, and verifying failover cleanly.
Role-based access on Aruba ClearPass — enforcement profiles, roles, and mapping identity to network privilege.
Offloading TLS at the F5 BIG-IP with a client SSL profile — certificate chains, ciphers, and clean re-encryption to the pool.
Zone-based security policy on the Juniper SRX — zones, address books, and policy structure that stays readable as it grows.