Each month we choose to shine the spotlight on a member of Indeni Crowd who goes above and beyond with their contributions to the community and act as role models and leaders in their respective fields. This month’s community member is no exception to the rule. I’m delighted to announce Hariprasath Ravichandran as our August […]

We’re excited to announce that Indeni is sponsoring this year’s F5 Agility conference. From August 13th to the 16th we’ll be trading in our Philz Mint Mojito coffee for some Dunks iced coffee, and enjoy 24 hours of hands-on labs, over 100 breakout topics, and an impressive series of keynote speakers in the historical city […]

Knowing what you want to do in 10+ years is difficult for anybody to identify. It is tricky to recognize what options are available and even trickier figuring out how to get there. Indeni is here to help organize your thoughts with our learning paths and a step by step dream job guide. Indeni presents […]

To keep your business online and ensure critical devices, such as Check Point firewalls, meet operational excellence standards it is helpful to compare your environment to a third party data set. As part of the Indeni Automation Platform, customers have access to Indeni Insight which benchmarks adoption of the Check Point capabilities and user behavior […]

When you start a new job there are is a lot to learn. When you are a security engineer, the learning curve is especially steep. There are hundreds of network and security appliances and supporting software needed to build, manage and scale a network. To complicate matters, every business’ network architecture and topology is different. […]

One of the most important tasks of a network and security administrator is to backup the configuration files of your device periodically. Frequency could be daily, weekly or monthly depending on your policy. In the unlikely event that your firewall should lose its configuration or require a factory reset, you can retrieve the configuration file […]

A favorite saying of ours here at Indeni is “we could all use a little help from our [expert] friends.” While that statement stands strong, Indeni Crowd is here to enable our community members to grow into that expert role through the launch of our new rewards catalog. Participate in the crowdsourcing of Network Security […]

Introduction Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls (NGFW) are security devices that possess a range of capabilities to meet current and future information security needs. This blog provides the steps to get started on the path to becoming an exceptional Palo Alto Networks administrator. Initial Steps Take the following steps when preparing to manage a Palo […]

Our Indeni Crowd July Member of the Month, ​Paul Carter​, exemplifies everything we cherish about our community. Mix dedication, expertise and hard work and you have this months Member of the Month. It comes as no surprise that Paul is a senior member of ​Aplura’s Information Security Engineer team, with his expansive knowledge around network […]

Infrastructure is changing so rapidly, that it is difficult to keep documentation up to date. To improve incident response times and reduce errors in the troubleshooting process it is critical to have operating steps documented. Before you can gather the information, it is important to have a solid template as a starting point. What background […]

Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks has created an excellent security ecosystem which includes cloud, perimeter/network edge, and endpoint solutions. Amongst the company’s product portfolio is a range of next-generation firewalls that provides customers with an industry-leading security solution. These next-generation firewalls contain a multitude of configuration and endless security subscriptions options […]

New knowledge, in depth analysis and detailed remediation steps have been introduced in release 6.3.x.x. It supports many new critical metrics for the next critical and widely deployed CISCO Data Center NX-OS technologies: ✓ virtual Port Channel (vPC) ✓ Fabric Extender (FEX) In brief, the Cisco Nexus virtual Port Channel (vPC) is a virtualization technology launched […]