A Palo Alto firewall is a next-generation firewall (NGFW) built by Palo Alto Networks that classifies network traffic by the actual application and user identity involved, rather than by port and protocol alone. It runs on the vendor’s PAN-OS operating system and inspects traffic once, in a single pass, using three core engines – App-ID, … Read more
CEH full form is Certified Ethical Hacker which is a cybersecurity certification from EC-Council that validates a person’s knowledge of the tools, techniques, and mindset attackers use to compromise systems – with the goal of applying that knowledge defensively and legally. The certification is obtained by demonstrating knowledge of assessing the security of computer systems … Read more
An AWS Solutions Architect refers to two related but distinct things: a job role – someone who designs cloud infrastructure and application architectures on AWS – and a certification, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (exam code SAA-C03), which validates the skills that role requires. The certification is AWS’s most widely held credential, largely because … Read more
AWS Cloud Practitioner (exam code CLF-C02) is Amazon Web Services’ foundational-level certification, designed to validate an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud independent of any specific technical job role. It’s the entry point into AWS’s certification structure, sitting below the Associate-level certifications (like AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate) and requiring no prior AWS experience, … Read more
A Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect is an IT professional who designs cloud and hybrid solutions on Microsoft Azure – deciding how compute, networking, storage, identity, and security services fit together to meet a business requirement. It’s a design role, not an operations role. The associated credential is Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, earned by … Read more
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that lets organisations rent computing power, storage, networking, databases, and AI capabilities from Microsoft’s global network of datacenters instead of buying and running that infrastructure themselves. Launched in 2010, Azure has grown into a platform of more than 200 services and competes directly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) … Read more
Cisco Firepower 300-710 is Cisco’s next-generation firewall (NGFW) product line, built around Firepower Threat Defence (FTD) – unified software that combines stateful firewalling, intrusion prevention, application visibility, URL filtering, and malware defence in a single data path. It runs on dedicated Firepower/Secure Firewall appliances, on Cisco’s ASA 5500-X hardware, and as a virtual machine (FTDv), … Read more
Cisco ISE is a networking security policy management platform used that act as a central brain for network access control. Every device that connects to a network – a laptop, a phone, a badge reader, a printer – has to be identified and given the right level of access, and doing that manually at any real … Read more
Cisco ACI is a smart networking system that manages an entire data center from one central control panel instead of configuring individual switches one by one. Data centres and wide-area networks solve very different problems, and Cisco actually has a separate SDN solution for each – which is part of why “Cisco ACI 300-620” and “Cisco … Read more