Girish Vyas

Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Has 5-10 Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Over 6 years ago

Answered a question: What Is The Biggest Difference Between Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto?

Hello there. That is a valid question many would have when they evaluate a product. However comparison of Wildfire and Cisco NGFW would not be correct. It should be compared with what is known as Threatgrid from Cisco which does the same function of sand boxing as that of…

Over 6 years ago

Answered a question: If you could go back, would you change your decision to buy that firewall and why?

This answer depends on the provider one has. These days people in enterprise are moving away from big names to Fortinet, WatchGuard I would recommend them to stick to secure architecture than just names. Check the frequency at which their threat database is updated. Ask…

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform: A flexible and easy-to-deploy solution for reducing bandwidth consumption

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Ivanti Connect Secure: The flexibility enables us to design solutions well, save effort and cost, and better support customers

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks: Protects cloud data at rest and sends valuable notifications in a timely manner

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Juniper SRX Series Firewall: Enables us to integrate a firewall and router in a single product but IPS needs improvement

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Has next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection but the CLI needs to be simplified

About 7 years ago

Contributed a review of CloudStack: User-friendly, scalable, and easy API use

About 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: Traffic is scanned in a single flow which improves the response times for the user

Almost 8 years ago

Contributed a review of Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL]: The solution lacks integration with SDN architecture. However, it does feature intuitive proxy policy deployment using a VPN

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.

Hello Orlee Thanks for reaching out to me. The documentation covers the entirity of the product along with guide to why that feature is enriching. Most vendors tend to forget that the documentation is written to keep the end user being a completely newbie. They just…

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.

Over 9 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating Firewalls, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

There are already some good answers about it but this is what I understand for a firewall. It is a luxury when compared in a networking domain. So basics first, we would need to suit your networking requirement. For this you need to settle down for Vendor whom you need to…

Almost 11 years ago

Commented on It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.

There are only few which have VPN terminated directly on the PA with other vendors. On those scenario they work decently. However, there were some odd cases where in relying did not work for some reason. For that we cleared some session and made the device as responder to…

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.

Projects

Almost 11 years ago

SIEM Rearchitecting

SIEM RearchitectingDeployed the solution in distributed architecture as well as enterprise one. Have deployed the solution with and without AIE to get existing issues resolved and make the system robust.

Almost 8 years ago

NFV Solution defining

Almost 7 years ago

Azure Integration for Hybrid Cloud

Integration of Azure for NFV services platform. Albeit a POC but was fun to do this to determine how to go ahead and derive a Hybrid Cloud with MSP services.

Experience

Reviews

Almost 7 years ago

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform

A flexible and easy-to-deploy solution for reducing bandwidth consumption

Almost 7 years ago

Ivanti Connect Secure

The flexibility enables us to design solutions well, save effort and cost, and better support customers

Almost 7 years ago

Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks

Protects cloud data at rest and sends valuable notifications in a timely manner

Almost 7 years ago

Juniper SRX Series Firewall

Enables us to integrate a firewall and router in a single product but IPS needs improvement

Almost 7 years ago

Cisco Secure Firewall

Has next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection but the CLI needs to be simplified

About 7 years ago

CloudStack

User-friendly, scalable, and easy API use

About 7 years ago

Palo Alto Networks WildFire

Traffic is scanned in a single flow which improves the response times for the user

Almost 8 years ago

Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL]

The solution lacks integration with SDN architecture. However, it does feature intuitive proxy policy deployment using a VPN

Over 9 years ago

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.

Almost 11 years ago

Palo Alto Networks WildFire

It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.

Answers

Over 6 years ago

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

What Is The Biggest Difference Between Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto?

Over 6 years ago

Firewalls

If you could go back, would you change your decision to buy that firewall and why?

Over 9 years ago

Firewalls

When evaluating Firewalls, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

Comments

Almost 9 years ago

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

The product was designed to allow newbies to configure it, and it is properly documented.

Almost 11 years ago

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

It crashes too frequently for a few boxes, but they have the best tech junkies I have worked with.

About me

With 7+ years of IT / Telco industry R&D experience as Architect, Service Delivery, Operations Engineer across various platforms like ECL, AWS Direct Connect, Azure, Cisco, Juniper, SDN, NFV, SD-WAN, MCC holds a certification in CCIE and PCNSE and understanding of API (Rest and SOAP).

Has good proficiency in Scripting especially in BASH (Shell Scripting).

Experience in IT cloud platform architect and design experience (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

In-depth knowledge in designing patterns, enterprise integration patterns and patterns for modern enterprise architecture which includes

- Networking,
- Linux,
- Software-defined networking,
- Network virtualization,
- Open protocols,
- Application acceleration
- Load balancing,
- DNS,
- Virtual private networks and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.

· Strong R&D background on modern XaaS cloud infrastructure and platform. In-depth knowledge about IP network architecture

· Deep knowledge with any of the following open source projects: OpenStack, CloudStack, ELK, MySQL, OpenNMS Horizon.

· Deep product knowledge, understanding and implementation across: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud

· Experience in designing virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Solutions

· An understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies

· Experience with automation and DevOps principles

Area of Expertise include Pricing, Consulting, Solution Designing, Implementing, RFXs,, SoWs, along with Network administration,

Looking for challenging opportunity If you have one reach out to me to determine if it works.

Certifications

CCIE Security CNSE

Employers

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Education

Cisco Systems
Xavier Institute Of Engineering
Children's Academy

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Almost 11 years ago

SIEM Rearchitecting

Almost 8 years ago

NFV Solution defining

Almost 7 years ago

Azure Integration for Hybrid Cloud