Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer

Bilal Ibrahim is an IT professional with more than 16 years of experience in the vast area of networking technologies. His background has largely been in financial services with hands-on experience in enterprise networks specializing in Cisco LAN/WAN/backbone/data center and security environments. Bilal leads the internal network design and automation for UncommonX.

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How to Configure Cisco Port Security

Picture of Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer: Mar 22, 2022 7:00:00 AM

Port security is a layer two traffic control feature on Cisco Catalyst switches. It enables administrators to configure individual switch ports to allow only a specified number of source MAC addresses ingressing the port. This helps improve security...

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DNS Security Risks and Best Practices

Picture of Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer: Jan 18, 2022 2:12:00 PM

The domain name system (DNS) has been an essential element of modern networking for years. It translates domain names to internet protocol (IP)...

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Improving Security with MAC Authentication Bypass

Picture of Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer Bilal Ibrahim, Senior Network Engineer: Dec 28, 2021 8:00:00 AM

Securing network access is critical and MAC authentication bypass (MAB) can help. These days, contractors and visitors require access to network...

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