macGREP, a grep building app for your macOS
Manny FernandezI have been playing with all forms of grep and decided to create an app that will assist in building...
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macOS XProtect: How Apple’s Built-In Malware Defense Actually Works
Manny FernandezThree engines, two bundle locations, two update pipelines, and the commands to verify all of it Objective Understand every moving...
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ITsecur Firewall for Webmin: A Point-and-Click IPTables GUI
Manny Fernandez2026 refresh of the original IPTable Firewall GUI post | By Manny Fernandez In this guide Executive Summary Prerequisites and...
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Proxmox VE: Creating a User That Can Only Touch the VMs You Choose
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Create a Proxmox VE user who logs in, sees only a specific set of virtual machines and...
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Red Team Tool Series: Nmap Zero to Hero: Install, Scan, and Tune Like a Practitioner
Manny FernandezIn this guide Executive Summary Prerequisites and Lab Architecture Installing Nmap on macOS Installing Nmap on Linux How Nmap Thinks:...
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RFC 1918 Private Address Space: The Practitioner’s Guide
Manny FernandezEvery network engineer has typed 192.168.1.1 into a browser, and almost nobody has read the short document that makes that...
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SED and AWK for FortiGate Configs: Surgical Edits, Inventories, and Migrations from the Shell
Manny FernandezRead, audit, rewrite, and generate FortiOS configuration with two tools you already have. Executive Summary Objective: Use two tools that...
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Reading a Packet Capture to Troubleshoot Slow Application Performance
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Turn "the app is slow" into a measured answer. Every slow transaction breaks down into network delay...
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HopMatrix: A great little tool packed with features
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Get HopMatrix installed, verified, and working across all eight of its modes, then fold it into a...
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diagnose firewall iprope: Reading the FortiGate Policy Engine From the Kernel Up
Manny FernandezWhat the kernel actually enforces, how to read it, and the troubleshooting workflows that make it worth knowing Executive Summary...
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FortiGate Cloud SD-WAN Overlay: Hub-and-Spoke Orchestration Without a FortiManager
Manny FernandezBuild an ADVPN overlay across your branches from the FortiGate Cloud portal, with Fortinet-hosted hubs and transactional config push. Executive...
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Configuring RIP on FortiGate: Neighbors, Authentication, and Route Control
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Stand up RIPv2 between two FortiGates, advertise their LANs, lock the adjacency down with MD5 authentication through...
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Hashing Files on macOS with Built-In Commands
Manny FernandezGenerate and verify MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 hashes from Terminal using nothing but what ships on every Mac. Objective:...
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Understanding the output of “dia debug app ike” on a FortiGate Firewall
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Every FortiGate IPsec write-up tells you to run diagnose debug application ike -1 and move on. That works,...
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“diagnose ip route match”: The FortiGate Kernel Route Lookup, Decoded
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary get router info routing-table all tells you what the routing daemon believes. diagnose ip route match tells you...
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Mastering grep on the FortiGate CLI: Every Switch, Explained
Manny FernandezIf you live in the FortiGate CLI, grep is the difference between scrolling through 4,000 lines of show output and...
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Follow the SNI: Troubleshooting SSL/TLS Connections on FortiGate
Manny FernandezUsing Server Name Indication to diagnose broken sites, missed exemptions, and mis-categorized HTTPS traffic Executive Summary When an HTTPS site...
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Wildcard FQDNs on FortiGate: CDNs, Web Filter, and SSL Exemptions
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Item Detail Objective Explain how a FortiGate populates a wildcard FQDN address object when the domain is served...
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Fixing a sluggish macOS Dock
Manny FernandezSpeed Up the Dock via TerminalOpen the Terminal app (press Command + Space, type "Terminal", and hit Return). Paste the...
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Installing the Argus OSINT Framework on macOS
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Argus (jasonxtn/Argus) is a Python based, all in one reconnaissance toolkit built around a single interactive CLI shell...
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