Who should attend
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.
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.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings
- Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate
- Use the GUI and CLI for administration
- Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
- Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
- Analyze a FortiGate route table
- Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multi-path and load-balanced deployments
- Authenticate users using firewall policies
- Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI
- Offer Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
- Understand encryption functions and certificates
- Inspect SSL/TLS-secured traffic to prevent encryption used to bypass security policies
- 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
- Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network
- Establish an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGate devices
- Configure static routing
- Configure SD-WAN underlay, overlay, and, local breakout
- Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric
- Deploy FortiGate devices as an HA cluster for fault tolerance and high performance
- Diagnose and correct common problems
Detailed Course Outline
FortiGate Administrator
- 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
FortiGate Immersion:
- 1. Firewall Policy, DNAT, and Authentication
- 2. SSL and Content Inspection
- 3. IPS
- 4. SSL VPN and IPsec VPN
- 5. ECMP Routing
- 6. Security Fabric
- 7. HA