The following, I hope, will help you to prepare better for the exam as there is no information I could find anywhere. Note Links to all the resources I mention in the text are at the end. Also, for obvious reasons this article does not contain actual questions from the …
Many best practices in security and regulations (PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53) demand or recommend renaming/deleting the default administrative accounts that come with the equipment. And every Fortinet product comes with the admin account built-in. Some people are afraid to lose administrative access by such changes, but with the Fortinet Fortigate …
Table of Contents Translate source IP address (SNAT) and Destination IP (DNAT) in usual, non-Central NAT mode Configuration Verification: Translate Source and Destination IP addresses when the Central NAT is enabled Configuration Verification CLI configuration Related: When the situation requires to translate both - source and destination addresses in incoming packets …
Table of Contents Introduction Enable API remote access and verify Create authenticated session, record session identifier Create a login session Create a Host object and publish the result Verification In this, 1st part of tutorial series, I will show how to enable remote access to API on Checkpoint Management Server …
Table of Contents General Health Communication debug Logs from devices Licensing Example debug session on Fortianalyzer Show connected to the FAZ devices General state of FAZ (version, serial, HA status, license status) Performance stats (appliance FAZ will have more data) Running processes and CPU load Logging devices with quotas for …
In this short visual guide I will show how to create a custom report from your own SQL query in Fortianalyzer. Fortianalyzer comes with plethora of datasets and reports defined - more than 800. My issue with all of them - they are overly complex and are geared more towards C-level management …
On 30th of March Fortinet released FortiOS 7.0 for all the supported models (alas, many D series Fortigates like 500D, are not supported), and here is the visual walkthrough of changes that can be seen in GUI. Note All the videos below come without sound. New color themes were …
Update August 2022: All the said below is still true, but starting with FortiOS 7.2.1 the process of issuing the evaluation license has changed. So, after reading this article, make sure to read this one as well: Fortigate free VM Evaluation License is now permanent, not limited to …
Fortiguard is a subscription based service from Fortinet, where your Fortigate queries their servers in real-time for various services: Periodic checking of Fortigate subscription/license validity for Web Filtering/AppControl/AntiVirus/AntiSpam/DNS Filtering. Real-time querying for visited by users web sites rating. Periodic signatures updates for IPS/AppControl/AntiVirus …
Around 50,000 Fortigate VPN accounts from around the globe were leaked to the public Internet last week. Not really news anymore, you can learn details elsewhere. What I asked myself about that was – is there anything to be done to prevent or lower the damage of such vulnerabilities? The …