Simon Chaba

ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

Hi Becky. I chose Fortigate mainly because it provides the capabilities to provide logical separate firewall instances to multiple customers. These logical firewall are know as VDOMs. I have the partitions the physical fw devices to multiple logical units thus saving costs.

About 9 years ago

Commented on Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

Hi, there is a table in which lists FortiOS security profile features and shows whether they are available in flow-based or proxy-based inspection modes. You can access it at…

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Fortinet FortiGate: Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

Almost 11 years ago

Answered a question: What solution would you recommend for monitoring traffic utilization of leased lines?

To monitor traffic utilization, I will recommend Manageengine OpManager, assumming snmp is configured on the monitored router. It gives you Rx/Tx Total bytes transferred, Errors and Discards, Traffic, Traffic Utilization and error rate.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Ethernet Switches: Modules are hot swappable, as you have dual power supplies. If you need improvements, you'll need to upgrade the hardware.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of HPE BladeSystem: It is a single integrated solution -- storage, networking, and management -- that can be deployed anywhere.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Enterprise Routers: It's easy to deploy if you know what you are doing, but if you want to improve, you have to upgrade the hardware.

Almost 11 years ago

Commented on Site to site VPN is easy, but it's very expensive.

Yes, we have 3 x 1Gbps and 1 x 155Mbps. We have four internet breakouts in different cities around the country and three of them are 1Gbps each. The fourth internet breakout is 155Mbps. There's only 2 ASA which are still on 8.3 and all others have been upgraded to 9.1. The…

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Site to site VPN is easy, but it's very expensive.

About 11 years ago

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

The most important criteria is the monitoring tool must be vendor neutral to cover most networking brands out there, and should use open standards like snmp. It should not require additional software agents to be installed on the nodes to be monitored

Experience

Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Fortinet FortiGate

Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

Almost 11 years ago

Cisco Ethernet Switches

Modules are hot swappable, as you have dual power supplies. If you need improvements, you'll need to upgrade the hardware.

Almost 11 years ago

HPE BladeSystem

It is a single integrated solution -- storage, networking, and management -- that can be deployed anywhere.

Almost 11 years ago

Cisco Enterprise Routers

It's easy to deploy if you know what you are doing, but if you want to improve, you have to upgrade the hardware.

Almost 11 years ago

Cisco Secure Firewall

Site to site VPN is easy, but it's very expensive.

Answers

Almost 11 years ago

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

What solution would you recommend for monitoring traffic utilization of leased lines?

About 11 years ago

Network Monitoring Software

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

Comments

Almost 9 years ago

Secure Web Gateways (SWG)

Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

About 9 years ago

Secure Web Gateways (SWG)

Virtual domains are treated as separate firewall instances

Almost 11 years ago

Firewalls

Site to site VPN is easy, but it's very expensive.

About me

I have more than 15 years’ experience in the ICT arena in financial, telecommunications and power utility sectors, including both private and state-owned enterprises. I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management and ITIL Version 3 Foundation certification.

Responsible for the management of ICT system solutions, ICT infrastructure and ICT Security in support of our company's strategic objectives. This includes the design and enhancement of business processes, the delivery of new ICT solutions as well as the maintenance, operations and support of ICT solutions.

Certifications

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Version 3)

Employers

South African National Space Agency
Momentum
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR)
Telkom

Education

Regenesys
EXIN your ICT competence partner
Tshwane University of Technology
Mmadikana High