FortiGate Essentials 

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FortiGate Essentials 

Duration: 2 Days

Course Code: FT-FGT-ESS

Prerequisites:

•    Knowledge of network protocols
•    Basic understanding of firewall
•    concepts
•    Knowledge of OSI layers
 

Course Description:

This FortiGate Administrative Essentials course is a customized course designed to allow students to learn how to use basic FortiGate features, including security profiles. Course agenda is listed to provide an overview on what topics will be covered during this 3 day instructor-led training.

Course Objectives:

  • Deploy the appropriate operation mode for your network
  • Use the GUI and CLI for administration
  • Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
  • Analyze a FortiGate route
  • Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multipath and load balanced deployments
  • Authenticate users using firewall policies
  • Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network
  • Configure web filtering to block inappropriate and risky websites
  • Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications that might use standard or non-standard protocols and ports

Intended Audience:

Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations’ networks should attend this course.

Course Outlines:

•    Module 1: Introduction and Initial Configuration
•    Module 2: Firewall Policies
•    Module 3: Network Address Translation (NAT)
•    Module 4: Logging and Monitoring
•    Module 5: Web Filtering
•    Module 6: Application Control
•    Module 7: Antivirus
•    Module 8: Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service
•    Module 9: SSL VPN
•    Module 10: Routing
•    Module 11: Layer 2 Switching
•    Module 12: Site-to-Site IPsec VPN
•    Module 13: High Availability
•    Summary & Review