FortiGate Administrator

FortiGate Administrator

This course is part of Fortinet Network Security Specialization

Instructor: Fortinet Training Institute

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7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

96 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

96 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

How to use the most common FortiGate features.

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7 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 7 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features including firewall policies, user authentication, high availability, SSL VPN, site-to-site IPsec VPN, Fortinet Security Fabric, and how to protect your network using security profiles, such as IPS, antivirus, web filtering, application control, and more. These administration fundamentals will provide you with a solid understanding of how to implement the most common FortiGate features.

In this lesson, you will learn about system and network settings on FortiGate.

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In this lesson, you will learn about firewall policies and how to apply them to allow and deny traffic passing through FortiGate. At its core, FortiGate is a firewall, so almost everything that it does to your traffic is linked to your firewall policies.In this lesson, you will learn how to configure network address translation (NAT) and use it to implement source NAT (SNAT) and destination NAT (DNAT) for the traffic passing through FortiGate.

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In this lesson, you will learn about the routing capabilities and features available on FortiGate.

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In this lesson, you will learn about using authentication on the firewall policies of FortiGate.

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In this lesson, you will learn how to configure and use SSL VPNs. SSL VPNs are an easy way to give remote users access to your private network.

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In this lesson, you will learn how to configure web filtering on FortiGate to control web traffic in your network.

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In this lesson, you will learn how to use FortiGate to protect your network against intrusions and how to monitor and control network applications that may use standard or non-standard protocols and ports—beyond simply blocking or allowing a protocol, port number, or IP address.

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Reviewed on Jan 23, 2025

An amazing course from Fortinet Academy. It really helped me to understand the basics of FortiGate product and their administration. Good course for Fortinet professionals.

Reviewed on Jun 15, 2024

The course has decent content, however many graded assignment questions are not from the content of the module or even the previous modules.

Reviewed on Aug 8, 2024

This course is good but writen material for review the course is unavailable.

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