FortiAppSec Cloud Administrator

This course will help:
  • Gain knowledge and skills in using all FortiAppSec Cloud modules, including Web Application Firewall, Advanced Bot Protection, Global Server Load Balancing, Client-Side Protection, and Threat Analytics
  • Learn how to use FortiAppSec Cloud to monitor the status, protect, and ensure the availability of web applications
  • Learn how to integrate FortiAppSec Cloud with the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture and FortiAI technology
  • Prepare for the FortiAppSec Administrator NSE 5 certification exam

Course syllabus:

  • Platform Architecture and Onboarding
  • Web Application Firewall and API Protection
  • Advanced Bot Protection
  • Global Server Load Balancing
  • Threat Analytics

You will learn:

  • Define the shared responsibility model
  • Describe the FortiAppSec platform architecture
  • Differentiate among licensing models
  • Integrate your web application
  • Configure DNS
  • Restrict direct-to-IP traffic
  • Implement DDoS protection
  • Define web application firewall (WAF) security rules
  • Explain OpenAPI validation
  • Distinguish among the various API protections
  • Configure machine-learning (ML) based API protection
  • Manage unauthorized or high-risk scripts and domains
  • Navigate the Client-Side Protection portal
  • Differentiate between good, bad, and sophisticated bots
  • Describe behavior-based detection and biometric attributes
  • Explain AI-based threat detection
  • Configure Advanced Bot Protection (ABP) applications
  • Apply ABP protection features
  • Integrate FortiAppSec Cloud ABP with the Fortinet Security Fabric
  • Define core global server load balancing (GSLB) objects and components
  • Onboard domains to GSLB
  • Configure health checks
  • Implement synthetic testing to monitor application availability globally
  • Describe various load balancing methods
  • Integrate FortiAppSec Cloud GSLB with the Security Fabric
  • Explain threat analytics
  • Describe FortiAI Assistant capabilities and limitations
  • Gain threat insights using widgets
  • Correlate security events with incidents
  • Analyze threats using FortiAI
  • Integrate FortiAppSec cloud threat analytics with the Security Fabric
  • Configure log forwarding

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that participants have a basic understanding of web application security and load balancing.

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