The guest user accounts are special in Fortigate and unlike regular local Firewall user accounts. The flow of creating them is: Let's configure it. First, you create Groups, which serve, in this case, as a template for various parameters users can/must have later: User & Device -> User Groups -> New .. -> Type …
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When the policy install fails on Fortimanager, it may mean many things as the process is quite complex with database/policy verification. But frequently, it happens because the communication tunnel between Fortimanager and Fortigate is down. The tunnel works on port 541, is encrypted (so we cannot see the contents …
Task: Taking the basic setup a step further, let's enable HTTPS protocol between clients and Fortiweb for the yurisk.com. Solution. Step 1. Create certificate signing request (CSR) to use in issuing the SSL certificate. I will use Ubuntu server. It does not have to be a server actually hosting …
Task: Continuing the Basic setup, we want to protect access to some pages, namely the root document "/" and "/treasure" with username and password. For this we want 2 kinds of users: local created on the Fortiweb, and remote residing in the Active Directory of the company. Even though it is …
Fortigate comes with some services allowed in incoming direction, even without any configuration done by you. Important to note is that in such pre-configured security rules the destination is mostly the Fortigate itself, sometimes its specific interfaces, sometimes all of the interfaces. That is, this does not allow access though …
Task: publish website yurisk.com, hosted on 2 physical servers: server1 (10.10.10.13) and server2 (10.10.10.14). The site should be available on HTTP only, no HTTPS. Apply preconfigured protection Inline Alert Only. The website's IP address visible to clients is 192.168.13.92. Solution …
The general workflow is: Facts to know: Available server types: http, https, imaps, pop3s, smtps, ssl, tcp, udp, ip Server types ssl, https and all the SSL based ones are available in Proxy inspection mode of the Fortigate only. Only starting with FortiOS 6.2.1 https load balancing supports …
Facts to know: You use Dos protection by creating Dos policy (Policy & Objects -> IPv4/Ipv6 DoS Policy) in which you enable/modify anomalies. The list of anomalies is pre-set in any policy you create. You only have the choice which ones to enable and which ones not to. All anomalies …
Get a list of all the buckets under user account Recursively list contents of a given bucket yurisk.info Recursively list contents of a given bucket printing sizes in a friendly format List contents of a bucket, add summary for number of objects and their total size Get access-list associated …