Finally GEO location blocking has arrived to Fortigate

It was predictable thing for Fortinet to do as everyone else has already been doing so. I haven’t verified myself but according to the informed source (can only say his name - Hen) they are using Maxmind database . So let’s see how to do it . First you create in …



Convert Fortigate diagnose sniffer packet output into tcpdump format understood by Wireshark

Running diagnose sniffer packet on Fortinet Fortigate unit outputs human-readable packet information and packet data . Only that sometimes you would like to have the traffic sniffed at Fortigate in Wireshark-readable format so that it can be analyzed by all powerful Wireshark. For this case Fortinet came up with the script …



awk weekly - Security rule hits statistics . Checkpoint

As I mentioned before once you export firewall logs into human-readable format you can do lots of interesting things - for example script that gives statistics of how many times each Security rule was hit . Be aware that this counts explicit Security rules only - i.e. the ones you see in …



Time-based access limiting on Checkpoint or any Linux for any network service

Time-based access-lists in Cisco world are available since ... last century for sure. But is it possible that Linux doesn't have anything like that ? No way - of course it can do and do it better. Here is how . Access control based on time of the day is available via pam module …



Set NTP time source on Checkpoint to have correct log timestamps

It is hard to argue that logs are as good as correct they are. And correct timestamps of the logs are crucial to this. Internal clock is prone to drifting with time, in my experience I've seen some UTM appliances to drift as much as 40 minutes in just one …



All you need to know about networking in Checkpoint firewall SecurePlatform FAQ

Q. How do I see available interfaces, errors on them , IP addresses . Q. How do I see routing table of the firewall. Q. How do I see duplex, speed, physical link status of the interface . Q. How do I manually set duplex, speed, autonegotiation settings of an interface. Q. How …



Enable 2 factor authentication to protect your Gmail account if you have not

done so already wordpress_id: 1728 category: Linux tags: Linux Today i did an improvised poll at work who is using the 2 factor authentication with their Gmail mail account and got only one positive answer - me :) . The question was in turn inspired by the article in Atlantic Monthly where James …



Watch your DNS records day and night with Nagios plugins

Domain records are most visible vulnerable and many time crucial asset of the company. Attackers need not break your firewall protection, find and develop exploits for software running on your server to cut off your company from mails - it is enough for them to cause a change of MX record …



Limit maximum size of scanned files in Fortigate firmware 4

Today I had to lower scanned files size on FOrtigate 80C. In the past it was a matter of few clicks in the good old version 3 via management GUI but in version 4 I spent some 20 minutes digging its GUI high and low and then finally opened Command …



'Archive IOS running configuration automatically for possible rollback '

Here is a feature that will save you time and frustration in many possible scenarios - especially when managing Cisco routers in multi-user environment. Once enabled archiving saves periodically copy of the running configuration of IOS router to the flash or remote server. So next time something stops working after changes …