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FortiGate Administrator 7.6
Learn to configure, manage, and secure networks using FortiGate firewalls with VPNs, authentication, Security Fabric, and advanced protection profiles.
Course Duration
4 Days
Target Audience
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.You should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Operator course before attending the FortiGate Administrator course.
Course Overview
In this four-day course, you will learn how to configure, manage, and monitor FortiGate devices to secure your organization’s network. Through hands-on labs, you’ll explore key features such as firewall policies, authentication, VPNs, Security Fabric, high availability, and advanced security profiles including IPS, antivirus, web filtering, and application control. This course provides a solid foundation for effectively administering FortiGate devices in real-world environments.
Key Learning Objectives
- 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
- Configure static routing
- Route packets using static routes for multi-path and loadbalanced deployments
- Authenticate users using LDAP and RADIUS
- 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 SD-WAN and verify traffic distribution
- 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
FortiGate Administrator 7.6
Agenda
- System and Network Settings
- Firewall Policies and NAT
- Routing
- Firewall Authentication
- Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
- Certificate Operations
- Antivirus
- Web Filtering
- Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
- SSL VPN
- IPsec VPN
- SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
- Security Fabric
- High Availability
- Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
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