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There are 7 modules in this course
In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features including 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.
In this lesson, you will learn about system and network settings on FortiGate.
What's included
2 videos1 assignment1 plugin
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2 videos•Total 4 minutes
Welcome to Fortinet Network Security Specialization•3 minutes
Welcome to FortiGate Administrator•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Introduction and Initial Configuration•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 28 minutes
System and Network Settings•28 minutes
Firewall Policies
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn about firewall policies and how to apply them to allow and deny traffic passing through FortiGate. At its core, FortiGate is a firewall, so almost everything that it does to your traffic is linked to your firewall policies.In this lesson, you will learn how to configure network address translation (NAT) and use it to implement source NAT (SNAT) and destination NAT (DNAT) for the traffic passing through FortiGate.
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1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Firewall Policies•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 43 minutes
Firewall Policies and NAT•43 minutes
Routing
Module 3•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn about the routing capabilities and features available on FortiGate.
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1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Routing•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 23 minutes
Routing•23 minutes
Firewall Authentication
Module 4•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn about using authentication on the firewall policies of FortiGate.
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1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Firewall Authentication•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 29 minutes
Firewall Authentication•29 minutes
SSL-VPN
Module 5•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn how to configure and use SSL VPNs. SSL VPNs are an easy way to give remote users access to your private network.
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1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
SSL-VPN•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 25 minutes
SSL-VPN•25 minutes
Web Filtering
Module 6•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn how to configure web filtering on FortiGate to control web traffic in your network.
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1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Web Filtering•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 17 minutes
Web Filtering•17 minutes
Application Control
Module 7•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this lesson, you will learn how to use FortiGate to protect your network against intrusions and how to monitor and control network applications that may use standard or non-standard protocols and ports—beyond simply blocking or allowing a protocol, port number, or IP address.
What's included
1 assignment1 plugin
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1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Application Control•30 minutes
1 plugin•Total 23 minutes
Intrusion Prevention and Application Control•23 minutes
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Reviewed on Jan 23, 2025
An amazing course from Fortinet Academy. It really helped me to understand the basics of FortiGate product and their administration. Good course for Fortinet professionals.
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Reviewed on Aug 8, 2024
This course is good but writen material for review the course is unavailable.
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Reviewed on Jun 15, 2024
The course has decent content, however many graded assignment questions are not from the content of the module or even the previous modules.
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