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Michael Thornton

  • Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company
  • Has 10+ Years Of Experience
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55 Points8 Years
User Activity
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: What aspects of network security are more concerning to small and medium-sized enterprises?
Small and large businesses seem to lack proper detection and response capabilities. For obvious reasons, detection and response is the most important aspect of cyber security.  AI-based threat detection companies such as Palo Alto, Vectra, Darktrace, SentinelOne…
Over 3 years ago
Replied to Matt Walmsley What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?
Top Cases: Lateral movement detection, early detection of Ransomware, compromised Office 365 accounts, supply chain attacks, Zero day malware, C2 traffic, data exfiltration. It also uses AI to understand the behavior of Admin accounts and service accounts respectively…
Over 3 years ago
Replied to Nicholas Arraje What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?
Top Cases: Lateral movement detection, early detection of Ransomware, compromised Office 365 accounts, supply chain attacks, Zero day malware, C2 traffic, data exfiltration. It also uses AI to understand the behavior of Admin accounts and service accounts respectively…
Over 8 years ago
Answered a question: Cisco Firepower vs. FortiGate
Cisco Next Generation firewalls use behavioral based algorithms to perform deep packet inspection. To be fair, most Next Generation firewalls have the ability to identify malicious traffic patterns. However, Cisco Open DNS is a great way to protect organizations from…
Over 8 years ago
Answered a question: Fortigate vs Barracuda
Barracuda is a true Next Generation firewall that can better protect your network from zero day exploits. Barracuda comes with 2 AV engines out of the box. More importantly the Barracuda firewall comes with application, mail and web filtering capabilities. Web filtering is…
Answers
About 3 years ago
Application Security Tools
What aspects of network security are more concerning to small and medium-sized enterprises?
Over 8 years ago
Secure Web Gateways (SWG)
Cisco Firepower vs. FortiGate
Over 8 years ago
Firewalls
Fortigate vs Barracuda
About me

CAREER PROFILE

•Systems Administrator with solid IT experience supporting mission critical applications and business operations.
•Comprehensive experience designing, planning and implementing Cisco infrastructure.
•Expertise in Cisco routing/switching, VLANS, TCP/IP, routing protocols: RIP, RIPv2, OSPF and EIGRP.
•Windows system administration experience in enterprise applications such as MS SQL, Microsoft Exchange (2003/2010) and Terminal Services.

Certifications

VCP: VMware Certified Professional 5
CCNP: Cisco Certified Network Professional
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate
MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MCSA: Microsoft Certified System Administrator
CNA: Certified Novell Administrator 5.0