FortiGate Security

1. Who is this course designed for?

Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations’ networks should attend this course. Participants should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Security course before attending the FortiGate Infrastructure course.

2. What are the main subjects covered?

• Introduction and Initial Configuration
• Security Fabric
• Firewall Policies
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Firewall Authentication
• Logging and Monitoring
• Certificate Operations
• Web Filtering
• Application Control
• Antivirus
• Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service
• SSL VPN
• Dialup IPsec VPN

3. What are the main skills, knowledge or capabilities that course participants will take away?

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Deploy the appropriate operation mode for your network
• Use the GUI and CLI for administration
• Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric
• Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
• Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
• Authenticate users using firewall policies
• Understand encryption functions and certificates
• Inspect SSL/TLS-secured traffic to prevent encryption used to bypass security policies FortiGate Security Course Description
• Configure security profiles to neutralize threats and misuse, including viruses, torrents, and inappropriate websites
• Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications that might use standard or non-standard protocols and ports
• Fight hacking and denial of service (DoS)
• Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network
• Implement a dialup IPsec VPN tunnel between FortiGate and FortiClient
• Collect and interpret log entries.

4. Will course participants gain certification by completing the course?

This course and the FortiGate Infrastructure course are intended to help prepare for the NSE 4 certification exam.

5. What are the main benefits to businesses whose employees complete this course?

In this three-day course, you will learn how to use basic FortiGate features, including security profiles. In interactive labs, you will explore firewall policies, security fabric, user authentication, SSL VPN, dial-up IPsec VPN, and how to protect your network using security profiles such as IPS, antivirus, web filtering, application control, and more. These administration fundamentals will provide you with a solid understanding of how to implement basic network security.

6. Why choose this course and course provider?

Firewall administrators who either

• Not used a FortiGate before and are new to the product.
• Have a requirement to gain NSE4 certification.
• Has previous experience, but never taken training and would like to verify already existing knowledge.

Our training team have years of experience and expertise from working in professional service, technical support and training roles.