FA-An FortiAnalyzer Analyst (NSE5)

This course will help:
  • Gain practical skills as a SOC analyst using FortiAnalyzer for centralized logging and analytics
  • Identify current and potential threats through incident analysis and outbreak reports
  • Incorporate FortiAI into your workflow and generate security reports
  • Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 5 certification exam

Course syllabus:

  • SOC Concepts and Security Fabric
  • Log Data Flow and Navigation
  • Events, Indicators, and Incidents
  • FortiAI, Threat Hunting, and Troubleshooting
  • Reports
  • Playbooks

You will learn:

  • Describe SOC objectives, responsibilities, and roles
  • Describe the role of FortiAnalyzer in a SOC
  • Describe FortiAnalyzer Security Fabric integration
  • Describe how logging works in a Security Fabric
  • Describe FortiAnalyzer Fabric deployments
  • Describe FortiAnalyzer operating modes
  • Describe how FortiAnalyzer parses and normalizes logs
  • Validate log parsers
  • Search logs using normalized fields
  • View and search for logs in the log view
  • Create saved filters and dashboards
  • View summary data in FortiView
  • View dashboards and widget features
  • Configure event handlers
  • Manage events
  • Configure indicators
  • Create incidents
  • Analyze incidents
  • Configure incident settings
  • Describe FortiAI operations and use cases
  • Describe threat hunting
  • Use the log count chart
  • Use the SIEM log analytics table
  • Describe outbreak alerts
  • Collect log volume statistics
  • Configure an automation stitch
  • Configure an event handler with an automation stitch enabled
  • Run and fine-tune predefined reports
  • Customize reports with macros, custom charts, and datasets
  • Configure external storage for reports
  • Group reports
  • Import and export reports and charts
  • Attach reports to incidents
  • Manage and troubleshoot reports
  • Create new playbooks
  • Use variables in tasks
  • Monitor playbooks
  • Export and import playbooks

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that participants have completed the FortiGate Operator and FortiAnalyzer Administrator courses or have equivalent practical experience. Basic knowledge of SQL SELECT statement syntax is also required.

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