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Principal Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Provides the capability of the higher end firewall products to handle most network tasks without issues.

About 10 years ago

Commented on vMotion allows us to move VMs from host to host, which helps a lot while performing scheduled maintenance on production environments and for workload consolidation.

As Chris and Karthik have mentioned, step by step. Do you have enough hosts to handle your VM's while one host is updating? Also, you have to update firmware for each of the hosts. I did a small environment (5 hosts, 140 VM's) and used the Dell Enterprise iDRAC to get…

Over 10 years ago

Answered a question: Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM

In my experience such a question actually yields more questions in response than a simple answer 1) Both should work – however there are some questions 2) Number of actual devices protected by the firewall a. Servers b. PCs/laptops c. Mobile…

Over 10 years ago

Answered a question: VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?

I have used VMWare since version 1.0 when it ran on top of Windows, Hyper-V (2008r2 and 2012-r2), Parallels Viruozzo and Citrix Xen. There are several factors that I consider, and cost is not always the leading factor 1) the types of VM's I need to use 2) Disaster recovery…

Over 10 years ago

Answered a question: Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM

1) Both should work – however there are some questions 2) Number of actual devices protected by the firewall a. Servers b. PCs/laptops c. Mobile devices d. Any other IoT devices (wearables, beacons or sensors) 3) Is the firewall the only wireless AP in the network? 4) How…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on It's simple to deploy which means you can quickly & effectively have a secure network but the reporting tool needs work

I like the TZ series for very small office, however I generally recommend and implement the NSA series for my clients. (I am not a reseller, I just sell my time). General rule - buy the next model up on a SonicWall if you want it to be sufficient for at least 3-5 years…

Projects

Over 10 years ago

moved a VMWare environment to a data center,

moved a VMWare environment to a data center, configured replication and expanded from 3 hosts to 7 hosts within 10 hours

Experience

Other Skills

Sonicwall NSA, VMware ESXi, Horizon View, ManageEngine OpManager, Desktop Central, SD+

Reviews

Almost 9 years ago

Cisco Secure Firewall

Provides the capability of the higher end firewall products to handle most network tasks without issues.

Answers

Over 10 years ago

Firewalls

Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM

Over 10 years ago

Server Virtualization Software

VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?

Over 10 years ago

Firewalls

Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM

Comments

About 10 years ago

Server Virtualization Software

vMotion allows us to move VMs from host to host, which helps a lot while performing scheduled maintenance on production environments and for workload consolidation.

Over 10 years ago

Firewalls

It's simple to deploy which means you can quickly & effectively have a secure network but the reporting tool needs work

About me

Ms. Phillips brings over 20 years cumulative experience in multiple IT disciplines ranging from IT security, virtualization, network design, project management, Voice over IP, eDiscovery, forensic analysis and LAN/WAN design.

In addition, Ms. Phillips is an evangelist of resilient and redundant network design, based on the capabilities of various organizations. Continuity of Operations (COOP) has come a long way in the past decade, and leveraging public and private cloud environments have become a staple of modern network design.

Over the past five years, Ms. Phillips has designed and implemented VMWare deployments for small and medium business in the Washington, DC metro area. The largest deployment has grown from a three host environment into a seven host environment split between the main office and a SOC-2 compliant data center. This particular environment supports 140 virtual servers (mixed OS), with replication of critical virtual servers between locations. Network security monitoring is provided by AlienVault OSSIM, NetFlow analysis and firewall log analysis tools.

Education

University of Maryland College Park
University of Maryland College Park

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Over 10 years ago

moved a VMWare environment to a data center,