Course objectives

The objective of the course is to learn about the capabilities of Fortinet security products as well as to provide the basic knowledge necessary to manage these perimeter security solutions.

Course duration

2 days

Audience profile

Administrators and security consultants.

Previous requirements

Participants are required to have detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and communications. In addition, they must be familiar with basic data network security concepts such as firewall, VPN or content control.

Course contents

Introduction

• The Fortinet solution
• Product Range
• General Security Concepts

FortiGate Initial Configuration

• Access methods
• System console
• Web Administration
• SSH, telnet
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Users with administrative privileges
• Interface configuration
• DNS
• Additional configuration: timeouts, time zones, NTP, default routes, …
• Operating modes
• NAT/Route mode
• Transparent Mode or Bridge Mode
• Backup Management
• Firmware Updates
• Update methods

FortiGuard Services: Subscription Services

• FortiGuard Equipment Distribution Network
• Connecting to FortiGuard servers
• FotiGuard Services: AV, IPS, Web Filtering, AntiSpam
• Activation of FortiFuard Subscription Services
• Discharge

Alerts and Logs

Firewall Policies

• Create and configure policies
• Order of the rules
• Object creation
• User authentication
• Protocol authentication
• NAT
• virtual IPs
• Protection Profiles
• Quality of service

VPNs

• SSL VPN
• PPTP VPN
• IPSec VPN

Authentication

• Local and remote authentication
• Users and User Groups
• PKI, X.509, Radius, TACACS+ and LDAP authentication
• Fortinet Authentication Extensions – FSAE

Antivirus

• Protection profiles
• Operation, features and elements of the Antivirus
• Virus Scan Settings
• Grayware
• Heuristics
• Types of Filters. Setting.
• AV definition updates
• Quarantine management
• Protection profiles with Anti-Virus
• Firms
• Replacement messages
• Scanning non-standard ports

Spam filtering

• Spam Filtering Methods
• Global and custom filters
• Setting up spam filters
• FortiGuard AntiSpam Service
• Protection profiles for antispam
• FortiMail

Web Filtering

• Custom filtering and 'Category blocking'
• Web Filter Configuration
• URL categorization with the FortiGuard service
• Protection profiles for Web Filtering
• Creation of new categories

Additional notes