LAB INDEX / NOTES FROM THE LAB BENCH
TEST. BREAK. TRACE. Then write it down.
A network & security engineer's lab notebook — things built, broken, traced, and documented.
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Catch a Silently Removed Security Profile — FortiManager + FortiAnalyzer
Someone edits a policy and drops the IPS profile. Traffic still flows, logs still look normal — inspection is just gone. Here's the FortiManager + FortiAnalyzer pattern that catches it in minutes, with a name attached.
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Alert the Instant Config Changes — Automation Stitches
A FortiGate automation stitch can ping your chat channel the moment anyone touches the config — no polling, no SIEM rule, just trigger → action wired straight into FortiOS.