SankaraShield specifies, sources and deploys the network and security infrastructure small and mid-sized organisations actually need — routers, switches, next-generation firewalls, secure remote access — and stays on to support it. Every design is signed off by a certified engineer, not pulled from a catalogue.
One point of contact from the first site survey to the support call two years later. No hand-off between the people who sold it and the people who have to make it work.
Routers, switches, access points and optics — specified against the load you actually have.
Next-generation firewalls, segmentation and secure remote access, configured to least privilege.
Addressing plan, VLANs, routing and failover — documented before a single cable is run.
The part most resellers skip: someone who answers when the link drops at 07:00.
Red teams break things. Blue teams defend them. Purple is what happens when the same people do both — and it is the only way to know whether a control actually works.
In practice it means we do not hand over a firewall with the default policy and call it secure. We configure it, then we try to get past it, then we show you what the logs looked like when we did.
Every proposal states what the equipment does, why that model and not the cheaper one, and what it costs to run — before you commit to anything.
A site survey and a look at what you already run. Free, and yours to keep even if you buy nothing.
A written design and a line-by-line quote: what each item does, and why that model.
Staged installation outside working hours where possible, with a tested rollback.
Documentation handed over, then monitoring, firmware tracking and a quarterly review.
We are not tied to one manufacturer, which means the recommendation can be the right box rather than the one we have to move. Certifications on the platforms below are current.
Vendor and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Listing them describes the technologies we specify, deploy and support — it does not imply a partnership, an endorsement or authorised-reseller status.
137 field briefs on the breaches, CVEs and outages that change how a network should be built — what happened, why the architecture allowed it, and the change that stops it.
CVE-2026-20274 through CVE-2026-20280 — seven flaws in Cisco IOS XR, two of them rated CVSS 9.8, published 2 September 2026 as an internal security hardening release. No…
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CVE-2026-20079 — CVSS 10.0 — authentication bypass to root on Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Cisco Talos confirms three separate threat clusters exploiting it,…
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Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 966 flaws. The two exploited zero-days are local privilege escalations. The real exposure is 20 wormable bugs in the…
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Network and cloud security engineer based in Arlington, Virginia. Associate degree in Computer Systems Networking (NWACC, 3.8 GPA, Phi Theta Kappa, Dean’s List), a BBA, and two years and seven months running IT for a healthcare practice under HIPAA constraints. Certified on the platforms he deploys — and he publishes his lab work, so you can check it.
Also open to remote roles. Alongside SankaraShield, Kodjo is available for remote Network & Cloud Security Engineer positions — US citizen, Eastern time zone.
For recruitersA first conversation costs nothing and usually saves a purchase order. Send the requirement, the site count and the deadline — you get a written answer, not a sales call.