About

Gurpreet Bhatoa is a highly skilled Security Architect with over 14 years of extensive hands-on experience in IT, specializing in Security/Network engineering, administration, and troubleshooting. He has designed, installed, configured, and maintained complex LAN and WAN networks, along with performing penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. Gurpreet is a team player who also works well independently, making him a valuable asset to any organization. Gurpreet has a wealth of knowledge in key security technologies, including Firewall (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco, and Juniper SRX), Ipsec VPN (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco, and Juniper SRX), Proxy (Blue Coat), Penetration testing and vulnerability management (Nessus), Load balancers (Radware), Wan Optimization (Steelhead), Network & security audit tools (Wireshark and tcpdump), and NAC (Cisco 802 dot.1x). He has extensive experience in Checkpoint Firewall, including architecture, packet flow, configuring and managing Checkpoint SPLAT & Gaia, NAT, VPN, High Availability cluster XL, Smart Dashboard, Monitor, and Tracker, and troubleshooting. Gurpreet also has a deep understanding of Palo Alto Firewall, including architecture, packet flow, administration & management, installation, upgrading images, managing policies, APP-ID, CONTENT-ID, USER-ID, NAT, VPN, High Availability, Panorama, and troubleshooting. Additionally, he has experience with Juniper SRX Firewall, including architecture, packet flow, administration & management, installation, upgrading images, managing policies, NAT, VPN, High Availability, and troubleshooting. Gurpreet is also skilled in key network technologies, including Routing & Switching, Routing Protocols (RIP v1 and v2, EIGRP, OSPF, Basic knowledge of BGP), Switching Protocol (Vlan, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, MST, and ether channel), Redundancy protocol (HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP), IP translating Protocol (NAT and PAT), Wan Protocol (PPP, HDLC, and ISDN-BRI/PRI), Networking Tools (CISCO LMS, HP Open View, Wire shark), Traffic Filtering protocol (Access Lists- Standard, extended, and named access list), and Ticketing Tools (HP Service Manager, Snow, Remedy). Gurpreet holds several certifications, including OSCP, CEHV9, CCNA,