FortiGate Security Training – (FortiGate I)

Course Duration

3 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of networking concepts and basic familiarity with firewall principles is recommended.

Course Description

In this three-day course, students learn to deploy and manage Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewalls using both the GUI and CLI. The course covers FortiGate operation modes, firewall policy configuration, network address translation, user authentication, SSL/TLS inspection, security profiles (antivirus, web filtering, application control, IPS), SSL VPN, IPsec VPN, and log analysis. Students gain the skills needed to protect organizational networks using FortiGate security features in real-world deployments.

Learning Objectives

• 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.
• 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).
• Defend against data leaks by identifying files with sensitive data, and block them from leaving your private network.
• Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network.
• Implement a dial-up IPsec VPN tunnel between FortiGate and FortiClient.
• Collect and interpret log entries.