IT & Infrastructure team

Network & Perimeter Operations

Keeps the firewall rule base honest across FortiGate, Palo Alto and Cloudflare, reviews every change for blast radius and applies only approved changes.

Who's on the team

  • Network LeadLead

    Owns the change approval gates and the change backlog review.

  • Change Review Engineer

    Reviews blast radius: proceed, proceed with conditions or refuse.

  • Edge Services Engineer

    DNS, WAF and certificate expiry.

  • Email Gateway Analyst

    Reviews FortiMail configuration.

  • Firewall Policy Analyst

    Finds shadowed, unused and over-permissive rules, with evidence.

  • Network Change Engineer

    The only agent with firewall write access, through the approval gate.

  • Segmentation Analyst

    Checks policy and VLAN together, never one alone, in the quarterly segmentation audit.

How a team arrives

  1. 1Import

    Arrives switched off

  2. 2Connect

    Credentials stay with you

  3. 3Discovery

    Learns how you work

  4. 4You approve

    Its plan and its limits

  5. 5Activate

    Routines switch on

Controls it works inside

  • Acts only after you approve its plan
  • You choose what waits for approval
  • A monthly budget per agent
  • No credentials in the sandbox
  • New agents join once a person approves them
  • Four hard limits with no approver: any-any-any accept rules, weakening a control, removing management-access restrictions, disabling logging.
  • Every applied change is read back from the device.
  • Connectivity investigations end in a finding, never a change.
More: when and where it works, and what it documents

When it works

  • Certificate and Expiry WatchMondays at 08:00
  • Change Backlog ReviewThursdays at 15:00
  • Monthly Object Sprawl SweepThe 1st of each month at 10:00
  • Quarterly Segmentation AuditThe 1st of each quarter at 09:00
  • Weekly Rule Hygiene ReviewTuesdays at 09:00

Routines arrive switched off. You turn each one on.

Where it works

  • Jira
  • Cloudflare
  • FortiGate
  • FortiMail
  • Palo Alto PAN-OS
  • Panorama
  • ServiceNow
  • Slack
  • UniFi UDM

Each connection is granted per agent, read-only or full. All integrations

What it documents

  • Rule findings with evidence.
  • Change records linked to the approval.
  • A device read-back attached to every applied change.
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