Who should attend
The primary target audiences for the bootcamp are:
- Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration, and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations' networks
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of network protocols
- Basic understanding of firewall concepts
- You should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Operator course before attending the FortiGate Administrator course.
Course Objectives
Successful candidates of the exam have applied knowledge and skills in the following areas and tasks:
- Deployment and system configuration
- Perform initial configuration
- Implement the Fortinet Security Fabric
- Configure an FGCP HA cluster
- Diagnose resource and connectivity problems
- Firewall policies and authentication
- Configure firewall policies
- Configure SNAT and DNAT options in firewall policies
- Configure different methods of firewall authentication
- Explain how to deploy and configure FSSO
- Content inspection
- Explain and inspect encrypted traffic using certificates
- Identify FortiGate inspection modes and configure web filtering
- Configure application control to monitor and control network applications
- Configure antivirus scanning modes to neutralize malware threats
- Configure IPS to protect networks from threats and vulnerabilities
- Routing
- Configure and route packets using static routes
- Configure SD-WAN to load balance traffic between multiple WAN links effectively
- VPN
- Configure and implement different SSL VPNs to provide secure access to your private network
- Implement a meshed or partially redundant IPsec VPN
Detailed Course Outline
- 1. System and Network Settings
- 2. Firewall Policies and NAT
- 3. Routing
- 4. Firewall Authentication
- 5. Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
- 6. Certificate Operations
- 7. Antivirus
- 8. Web Filtering
- 9. Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
- 10. SSL VPN
- 11. IPsec VPN
- 12. SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
- 13. Security Fabric
- 14. High Availability
- 15. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting