FortiDDoS Administrator
- Duration: 2 days (12 hours)
- Date: on request
FortiDDoS Administrator
This course will help:
- Gain foundational knowledge and skills in administering and operating FortiDDoS to protect network infrastructure from DDoS attacks.
- Learn how to establish network traffic baselines to identify anomalies and potential threats
- Learn how to detect, analyze, and mitigate the impact of individual and distributed DDoS attacks while maintaining service availability and network performance
- Learn how to deploy, configure, and manage FortiDDoS solutions in a network environment
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the core concepts of FortiDDoS administration and operation
- Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 6 certification exam
Course syllabus:
- Introduction and Deployment
- Initial Configuration
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Global Settings
- Service Protection
You will learn:
- Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns
- Choose the correct FortiDDoS model
- Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks
- Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers
- Identify when to use detection and prevention modes
- Implement bypass or a high availability FortiDDoS cluster for maximum service uptime
- Detect connections from proxies
- Describe how the blocking periods and penalty factors intelligently determine which packets are dropped after an attack is detected
- Configure access control lists and blocklists
- Mitigate anomalies and SYN floods
- Describe the main characteristics of protection policies
- Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs
- Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels
Pre-requisites:
This course assumes a basic understanding of DDoS attacks and common solutions for preventing them.
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