A few years ago, I walked into a SOC that had been designed by committee. Each team had chosen their own tools. The network team used one NMS. The security team used a different SIEM. The physical security team had their own VMS with its own server. The automation team ran a standalone SOAR platform
This might surprise you coming from a Fortinet MSSP partner who sells and manages FortiGates every single day. But I’ve told clients not to buy Fortinet. More than once. And I’ll do it again. Here’s when. When Your Team Has Deep Palo Alto Experience I’ve seen this play out too many times: a CISO arrives
I’ll say it plainly: the best firewall in the world, configured perfectly, with the latest firmware and the tightest rules, is exactly as effective as a speed bump if nobody is watching it. A speed bump slows a car down. It doesn’t check if the driver has stolen the car. It doesn’t tell you where
Last year, our team audited 5,732 firewalls. That’s not a round number I picked for effect—that’s the actual count from our deployment and audit logs. FortiGates, Palo Altos, Sophos, Cisco ASAs, a few niche vendors. Enterprise data centres, bank branches, hospital campuses, manufacturing plants, multi-site retail chains. Every single one had at least one misconfiguration.
