FortiWeb BYOL via Ogma vs PAYG via AWS / Azure Marketplace — the savings math

PAYG via AWS / Azure Marketplace is the easy click. At month 7 of a typical 24-month workload, BYOL via Ogma is significantly cheaper — with the math.

03 Jun 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Network Security
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Microsoft Sentinel pricing in India — INR by ingestion tier

Sentinel pricing model with INR + worked example for 200 GB/day, the 4 cost levers, and the E5 ingestion-benefit math.

03 Jun 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  SIEM
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Microsoft Purview for DPDP Act — what to enable on day 1

The 30-day Purview activation plan for DPDP Act compliance — sensitivity labels, DLP, Insider Risk, retention, audit evidence.

02 Jun 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Compliance
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FortiWeb deployment models — the complete guide for India, 2026

FortiWeb ships in five deployment shapes — appliance, VM, public-cloud BYOL, FortiAppSec Cloud SaaS, container. Pick the right one with the official docs.

01 Jun 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Network Security
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Fortinet SOC-as-a-Service for India's compliance reality — CERT-In, DPDP, RBI and SEBI, 2026

CERT-In's 6-hour reporting clock, DPDP enforcement, RBI and SEBI's 24x7 monitoring mandates — why Fortinet SOC-as-a-Service is the realistic path for Indian mid-market. With the math.

ZTNA replacing VPN — what GlobalProtect, AnyConnect and FortiClient users need to know in 2026

Why the everyday VPN frustrations — flat-network access, 9am concentrator overload, painful onboarding — are architectural, not configuration, and how ZTNA delivered through SASE fixes them.

28 May 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Fortinet / SASE
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How FortiSASE shrinks your AWS / Azure cloud bill — the VM-sizing and egress math

A docs-backed look at how moving SSE functions into FortiSASE PoPs strips out in-VPC security VMs, NAT-GW throughput and cloud-native NVA fees — with the math.

26 May 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Fortinet
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OCI vs AWS for Oracle workloads — the Hyderabad / Mumbai region reality check, 2026

OCI Mumbai/Hyderabad vs AWS Mumbai/Hyderabad for Oracle Database in 2026 — RAC, Exadata, BYOL math, RDS Custom limits. A docs-backed decision guide for India.

26 May 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Cloud / Oracle
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Security Awareness Training in the Age of AI-Powered Phishing

AI has erased every tell-tale sign of a phishing email. Why continuous security awareness training and phishing simulation — FortiSAT — is now a core security control.

22 May 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Cybersecurity
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FortiAI Explained — Sub-modules, Capabilities, and India Use Cases (2026)

FortiAI explained for Indian buyers — four sub-modules, token-based licensing, how it embeds across the Fortinet Fabric, sectoral fits and honest limits.

19 May 2026  ·  Pawan Sharma  ·  Fortinet AI
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