Showing posts with label sensiblegurus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sensiblegurus. Show all posts

Monday, June 28, 2010

Who is your Firewall Vendor Sonicwall is looking at some changes

Sonicwall, a longtime SMB Firewall Provider, is looking at a shakeup!

SonicWall, one of the larger SMB Firewall Providers is looking at being sold, to a different Firewall Provider, Watchgaurd. as per our sources here at Channel Insider
Is this good news, or not? Watchguard's reputation in the SMB Space has been declining in the past number of years, and an injection of new Sonicwall Customers would really boost their market share? But what of the quality of Sonicwall Support? It is already on shaky ground, having a number of SonicWall partners dropping their contracts with Sonicwall. Astro has been picking up a number of these Contracts as well!

Where does Sensible Gurus LLC Stand in this? We are a Fortinet partner, and have been very happy with our choice. If your company subscribes to our managed service plan, where we are on the hook to keep your systems safe, you already have a Fortigate Firewall in place!

sales@sensiblegurus.com or
support@sensiblegurus.com
(414) 455-5455

Sensible Gurus LLC

15417 W National Ave Suite #63

New Berlin, WI 53151

Sunday, August 30, 2009

How Sensible Gurus Got it's Name!







I was having a discussion with Patti Wallner, the outgoing president of the Waukesha Chamber of Commerce (www.waukesha.org) the other day, and she asked me a question. “Sensible Gurus, I love the name! Tell me why and how you selected it”

Well, here is our answer.

Gurus, by our (and Wikipedia’s) definition, is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others like a teacher.

We at Sensible Gurus (www.sensiblegurus.com) feel that one of the most important aspects of our existence, as a company is to teach and share our knowledge with our family of clients! With technology there is normally more than one correct answer for any given question, all having pro’s and con’s with each solution. While many service companies will give a solution and do it, we go a few steps further.

Why?

That is the question we ask. Why are you insisting on this particular application, why do you want a new computer, why are you using Excel for this project? We strive to understand what our customers are having trouble with, why it is an issue, and what is the business need for each request. Then we take the information that is given to us and answer with our solution that we feel will server the customer the best.

We Listen.

One of the most crucial aspects of being a teacher is the ability to listen. We listen to the businesses needs of the customer, and any issues they are experiencing with the technologies that they use! Without asking questions and listening to the answers one cannot determine the best course of action!

The Sensible part of our name comes from the ability to have good reason and suggest solutions that actually make business sense to a company or individual. We have the ability to look at the number of correct answers for any given problem and choose the right one for our customer.

And that is why we are Sensible Gurus (www.sensiblegurus.com)

Patti seemed to like our answer :)

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

FirePlotter, a Nice tool for monitoring Cisco Pix/ASA's and Fortigates!

I stumbled (well, was pointed to) this great tool:







For monitoring my Fortigate Firewalls! Now, I love my Fortigates, they are a great price point for Unified Threat and Decent Firewalling Rules, but the interface and monitoring tools built in could be LOADS better! Like anything it takes a while to get used to!

This FirePlotter tool has taken alot of pain out of monitoring traffic, there is a free and one year subscription paid version of the tool. The free tool will let you monitor some basic settings, such as Ping, FTP, SMTP, DNS, HTTP, PoP3, HTTPS, and RDP. This is great is you are searching for a Rogue Zombie on your network trying to flood e-mail's! (You ARE restricting all machine except for your designated mail Server to send traffice on Port 25, correct?)

The Paid version will allow for additional views, all traffic to be monitored and allows basic commands to be performed on the firewall such as Ping.

If you have a Fortigate or Pix/ASA, check this tool out, the paid version rocks, the free version is worth more than you pay for it!