Priyesha Patel
Fortinet NSE 1-7
Priyesha Patel is a Cyber Security Engineer at BALANCED+, focused on designing, deploying, and tuning Fortinet security infrastructure for businesses across the GTA. She holds the full Fortinet NSE 1 through NSE 7 certification track and specializes in FortiGate firewall configuration, threat protection, and secure network architecture.
Working alongside the BALANCED+ security operations team, Priyesha turns Fortinet’s platform into practical, resilient defenses: hardening firewalls, tuning intrusion prevention, and closing the configuration gaps attackers look for. Her focus is helping mid-market organizations get enterprise-grade protection from the technology they already run.
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