This course provides comprehensive training on the essential features of FortiGate. Through hands-on labs, you'll gain practical experience with firewall policies, user authentication, high availability, SSL VPN, site-to-site IPsec VPN, and the Fortinet Security Fabric. You'll also learn how to safeguard your network using security profiles, such as intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus, web filtering, application control, and more. By the end of this course, you'll have a strong foundation for deploying and managing FortiGate's most widely used functionalities.

Certification Preparation
This course is designed to support your preparation for the FCP - FortiGate 7.4 Administrator certification exam. Achieving this certification contributes to the following professional tracks:

• Fortinet Certified Professional - Network Security
• Fortinet Certified Professional - Public Cloud Security
• Fortinet Certified Professional - Security Operations

Goals

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• 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;
• authenticate users using firewall policies;
• 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 static routing;
• configure SD-WAN underlay, overlay, and local breakout;
• 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.

Target Audience