Required Technical Skills:

1. Offeror shall propose resource(s) possessing the following preferred skills, experience, and capabilities:

a. Five (5) years of experience with:

(1) Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall services.

(2) Intrusion Detection and Prevention with Palo Alto networks.

(3) Content Filtering Palo Alto networks.

(4) Virtual Private Networks using Palo Alto network systems.

(5) Data Loss Prevention

(6) TLS/SSL Inspection

b. Four (4) years of experience in Complex switching, routing, wireless with Cisco Systems.

c. Three (3) years of experience in Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing with A10 networks.

d. Two (2) years of experience in Network Access Control – Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Free Radius, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).

e. General experience with the following:

(1) Implementing multifactor authentication solutions with Microsoft.

(2) Cloud based virtual networking and security services

(3) Authentication standards – (802.1x) in wired and wireless applications.

(4) Scalable routing protocols Enhance Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path Fist (OSPF), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

(5) Enterprise Data Center implementing Micro segmentation.

(6) Certificate Management, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

(7) Vulnerability management using Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, and Linux OS

(8) Packet/Protocol Analysis using Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark, and taps.

(9) Centralized Management using Panorama, SolarWinds

(10) Major server and desktop operating systems and utilities