Cisco/Fortinet/Palo Alto Expert for Consulting (Manhattan)
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Cisco/Fortinet/Palo Alto Networking expert available for consulting and emergency support.
I rapidly restore network outages on-site and provide professional, expert service in a timely fashion 24 hours a day. I am equally comfortable working at your office, remote from my office or at any data center anywhere in the 50 States.
Small Projects and Support, changes, adds, etc - to be done remotely for hourly rates
Installations, Full Projects, Full Migration - on-site service optional.
Joe Brunner
24 Hours - 1 (646) 417-2235
My recent projects and responsibilities:
January to May 2025: Configure Palo Alto firewalls in datacenters. Deploy USER-ID with replication to 30 sites. Grant specific permissions to Active Directory Users going to multiple sites. Auto ban threat actors with Vulnerability Protection Profiles and auto-tagging by IP and USER-ID.
February - May 2025: Migrate from Fortinet 200E series to Latest Fortinet "G" series, 200G with cloud logging. Convert local fortigate firewall configurations to Fortimanager templates for ZTP & SDWAN.
May 2025 - June 2025 Palo Alto Networks NGFW threat automation and blocking. Detecting abuse and misuse of network resources, tagging, distribution of tags and blocking traffic in real-time. Over 200 sites, 3400 Series, 1400 Series, 440 Series. Moving from Panorama to Strata Cloud Next.
Here are some of the technologies I can help you master:
Firewalls & Security:
Fortinet Firewalls, FortiManager Cloud, Fortinet Sandbox, FortiAnlyzer, SDWAN, VPN Tunnels, User Authentication, Forticlient VPN. Fortinet EMS Server, FortiSASE
Palo Alto Firewalls 9,10,11 OS, Global Protect VPN Gateway. Geographic restrictions and harden GlobalProtect.
Cisco ASA 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, 5512-X, 5515-X, 5525-X. Lan to Lan VPN, Remote User VPN.
Sonicwall Firewalls, VPN tunnels, remote vpn access.
Juniper SRX Firewalls.
Duo 2Factor Authentication
Cloud and Virtualization:
Amazon AWS, Azure, Google GCP Cloud. General setup, sizing, virtual machine & network build out.
Ansible, Terraform, Python, YAML, YANG, CONF. Network As CODE projects.
AWS Route53, sizing, nat gateways, cloudwatch.
Cloudflare front end SSL and security.
Microsoft Azure Expressroute, Azure Point-to-Site VPN, Amazon VPC VPN to Site. Google Cloud HA VPN.
vmware esxi 6.5, 7, 8 vsphere, vcenter, vmware provisioning, storage, clustering, HA, Fault Tolerance, backup and restore.
vmware disaster recovery.
Denial of Service and Datacenter:
Juniper Junos Routers - M40e, M7i, Junos 11, Junos 12.
Denial of Service Attack (DOS/DDOS) Detection, Mitigation, Prevention, service hardening.
DNS, NTP Reflection and other web based denial of service attacks.
Low Latency Networking using ARISTA 7124, 7150s, SolarFlare Network Adapaters; Open Onload, SFN9300 Flareon. SFN7122, SFN7322, Hardware time stamping, PTP 1588 IEEE, Symetricom, Sonoma NTP/PTP Timeservers.
Wireless & Small Business Networking:
Meraki Switches, Wifi, Cisco WLC, Ubiquiti Networking & Products.
Meraki 802.1x integration with Active Directory Certificate Authority (CA) and Network Policy Server (NPS).
Lock down wifi SSID to domain joined machines ONLY.
Wireless site Survey's and signal strength verification and monitoring.
Exchange, O365 and Small Business:
Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 Mail Routing, mailbox, client access server dns, ssl, performance issues at scale.
Office 365 migration hybrid, cutover, mailbox migration and performance issues routing mail in a hybrid deployment
Synology SAN, Synology vm manager, Synology C2 Cloud Backups, Carbonite, disaster recovery and restore.
Joe Brunner
Palo Alto PCNSE Certified as of 6/2025 Through 2027
Fortinet FCP (Formerly NSE4) Certified as of 10/2024 Through 2027
CCIE #19366 (Emeritus 2007 - 2018).