Monday, June 28, 2010
Who is your Firewall Vendor Sonicwall is looking at some changes
sales@sensiblegurus.com or
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.
And that is why we are Sensible Gurus (www.sensiblegurus.com)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
FirePlotter, a Nice tool for monitoring Cisco Pix/ASA's and Fortigates!
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!
