Cybersecurity cheat sheets

Security inspection references for FortiGate, Sophos and Kali Linux: firewall and cluster health, IPsec tunnels, session and traffic investigation, port discovery and packet analysis.

9 free references in this topic. Each lists the command, what it inspects and how to read the result.

• FortiGate CLI essentials — The everyday commands for finding your way around a FortiGate.
• FortiGate HA & system health — Check cluster membership and baseline appliance health.
• FortiGate VPN health — Inspect IPsec tunnel health and security associations.
• FortiGate session inspection — Connect policy decisions with live traffic sessions.
• Kali Burp Suite proxy basics — Inspect requests from a local training application with Burp’s built-in browser.
• Kali Nmap discovery essentials — Discover a lab host’s exposed TCP services and interpret scan states.
• Kali Wireshark packet analysis — Use display filters to inspect DNS, TCP handshakes and one lab conversation.
• Sophos Firewall CLI health checks — Gather appliance version, uptime and resource diagnostics in Device Console.
• Sophos Firewall traffic investigation — Use log filters to connect a connection failure with firewall decisions.