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Almost 6 years ago
Sophos brings all the features required to end-user within a box. FortiGate is a forward proxy, it does not provide server protection or reporting features. You have to procure separate boxes and licenses. Moreover, Sophos provides better end-point security as well.

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Almost 6 years ago
Unified Threat Management (UTM)

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An experienced IT Engineer with significant design, support, administration and implementation experience of network projects. A freelancer as well, with diverse technical skills including virtualization, next generation firewall technologies, penetration testing and ethical hacking, routing and switching, wireless communications etc. Seven years of IT experience with full life cycle ICT project experience.

Cisco routers 1800 / 2600 / 2800 / 3600 / 3800 /7200 series
Cisco switches C2950 / C2960 / C3560 / C3750 / C4900 / C6500
Juniper 6350 and Huawei NE-20 router
Cisco ASA 5505 / 5510 firewalls, Cisco Secure ACS, Cisco IOS based Firewall
ACL, PACL, Route filtering, Zone Based Firewalls and CBAC
Intel Xeon E5 and Dell PowerEdge 2500 and 4600 Servers
AstroFlowGuard Bandwidth Manager and Sophos ASG UTM 9.3
Cyberoam NG Series UTM Appliance
Ruckus Zone Director 3000 Appliance and Ruckus Zoneflex wireless mesh router 7372
Linksys, D-link, TP-Link and NETGEAR Access points and wireless routers
Routing protocols RIP / OSPF / EIGRP / BGP and redistribution
Static and default routes
VLANs / STP / RSTP / Etherchannel / MST
HSRP / VRRP / GLBP / Port Security / 802.1x
VPNs – GRE / IPSec / DMVPN / SSL / MPLS
Securing VLANs, switch access, IDS, IPS
WireShark, Packet Sniffer
SolarWinds, WhatsupGold and Spiceworks Network Monitoring
VMware ESXi Server and vSphere5.5 client, vCenter Server and VMware workstation
Citrix XenServer and Oracle Virtualbox
Kerio Control , IPFire, Smoothwall firewall
Microsoft Windows Servers 2003 / 2008 / 2012
Microsoft Hyper-V, WSUS, DNS, DHCP, WDS, Remote Access Service
Active Directory, Group Policy, NLB and Failover Clustering
Creating and Managing FTP sites, IIS, PHP, MySQL
RDP, Telnet and SSH
Cisco Packet Tracer, GNS3
Microsoft Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013