FortiGate Administrator

FT-FGT-ADM

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Overview

In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features. In interactive labs, you will explore 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.

Students will learn:

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