Introduction to Fortigate Firewall

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FortiGate

Welcome to the Introduction to Fortigate course. This course is aimed to help you get started with configuring and supporting Fortigate firewalls, as well as different use case scenarios and security best practices.

The Hands-On labs used in this course will walk you through the steps needed to get all your Fortigate infrastructure configured securely, and ready for production.

Up-to-Date 2021 version of the course using latest FortiOS 7.0 Firmware images, and built on multiple platforms – local and cloud – you can choose from.

By the end of the configuration section you will be able to configure firewall policies, routing, VPNs, authentication portals and much more on you platform.

Troubleshooting quick tips will help you to resolve common Fortigate issues ASAP.

What You will learn in this course

– Learn Basic functions of firewalls and where to download Fortigate Image
– How to Install Fortigate 7.0.2 on VMWare Workstation
– How to Install Fortigate VM 6.4.0 on GN3 Network Emulation Software
– How to Install Fortigate VM 6.2.3 on Amazon AWS EC2
– Create and understand the flow of a firewall policy
– Configure Routing, VLAN Trunking and Static routes
– How to directly connect Fortigate to Internet (Edge Firewall)
– How Backup and Restore full configuration or scripts
– How to Upgrade Software of the Firewall (FortiOS)
– How to kill and restart a process or service on Fortigate firewall

– How to build Site-to-Site IPSec VPNs to connect remote offices and branches over the Internet
– Learn different Scenarios for Network Address Translation (NAT) and implementation examples
– How Build Authentication Portals (Fortigate Captive Portals)
– How Build Highly Available (HA) Fortigate clusters for redundancy and high availability.
– How Configure Client VPN for remote users access (SSL-VPN)
– Learn how virtual switch works and how to remove interfaces from virtual switch interface
– Troubleshooting common Fortigate issues

Who is the target audience?

Network Security Engineers looking to improve their Fortigate skills, and increase their security foundation
Network Administrators curios on the best practices to manage and troubleshoot network incidents and resolve complex issues
Companies looking for comparison between security devices and firewall platforms to decide the best fit to their requirements

Introduction

Introduction to Fortigate pilot

Preview

13:22

IP addresses & subnetting

12:10

IP addresses & subnetting quiz

10 questions

Preparing the Fortigate lab

FortiCloud Account & Fortigate Images

05:23

How to Install Fortigate 7.0.2 on VMWare Workstation

How to install Fortigate VM 6.4.0 on Google Cloud Compute Engine

17:47

How to Install Fortigate VM 6.2.3 on Amazon AWS EC2

Test your knowledge: Fortigate deployment

5 questions

Firewall Configuration

Configuring L3 Interfaces, Firewall Policies and Sequencing

Test your knowledge: Interfaces and Firewall Policies

Configuring Router-On-A-Stick

Configuring Static Routes

Deploying Fortigate on Edge

How to secure Fortigate firewall

Upgrading Fortigate Software (FortiOS)

Backup/Restore Fortigate Config

How to kill and restart a process or service on Fortigate firewall