FG-A FortiGate Administrator (NSE4)
- Duration: 4 days (32 hours)
- Date: on request
FG-A FortiGate Administrator (NSE4)
This course will help:
- Gain fundamental administration skills for implementing FortiGate solutions
- Explore firewall policies, user authentication, and high availability
- Configure SSL VPN and site-to-site IPsec VPN
- Protect networks using security profiles such as IPS, antivirus, web filtering, and application control
- Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 4 certification exam
Course syllabus:
- System and Network Settings
- Firewall Policies and NAT
- Routing
- Firewall Authentication
- Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
- Certificate Operations
- Antivirus
- Web Filtering
- Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
- SSL VPN
- IPsec VPN
- SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
- Security Fabric
- High Availability
- Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
You 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
- Configure static routing
- Route packets using static routes for multi-path and loadbalanced deployments
- Authenticate users using LDAP and RADIUS
- 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 SD-WAN and verify traffic distribution
- 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
Pre-requisites:
This course assumes that participants are familiar with the following topics:
- Knowledge of network protocols
- Basic understanding of firewall concepts
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