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Fortinet is an American cybersecurity company that develops firewalls, antivirus software, and other security appliances and services. It was founded in the late 1990s and went public in 2009. The document provides an overview of Fortinet and its flagship FortiGate firewall product. It discusses what a firewall is and different types of firewalls. It then details how to set up the FortiGate firewall in a lab environment step-by-step, including downloading the VM image, configuring basic settings like the IP address and password, and enabling services.

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01 Intro

Fortinet is an American cybersecurity company that develops firewalls, antivirus software, and other security appliances and services. It was founded in the late 1990s and went public in 2009. The document provides an overview of Fortinet and its flagship FortiGate firewall product. It discusses what a firewall is and different types of firewalls. It then details how to set up the FortiGate firewall in a lab environment step-by-step, including downloading the VM image, configuring basic settings like the IP address and password, and enabling services.

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_Intro

About Fortinet Company.


An American multinational corporation headquartered in California.
It develops and markets cybersecurity software and appliances and services, such as firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion prevention and
endpoint security.
Was founded in by brothers Ken and Michael.
The company's first product was FortiGate, a firewall, later adding wireless access points, sandboxing, and messaging security.
The company went public in November , raising $ million through an initial public offering.

Fortinet Certifications

Fortinet Product Portfolio

Firewalls Page
Fortigate Firewall (NSE ) Contents
What is firewall ?!
Hardware Device and ports
How to build the course lab from scratch step-by-step
Installation and initial configuration
System settings (host name, System Time, Password Policy......)
Inspection Modes
NGFW Modes
Basic configuration
Managing admin password and profiles
Reset admin lost password.
Administrator profiles.
Understand and configure interface types:
Aggregate Interfaces
Redundant interfaces
VLAN interface
Software Switch interface
Zone configuration
DHCP service configuration
DNS services configuration
Managing objects
Firewall local user database
Managing guest user
Captive portal
Routing
Static Routing
Dynamic Routing OSPF, RIP, BGP
Policy Routing
Back up, Restore firewall configuration
Upgrade, downgrade the firmware
NAT
Understanding NAT !
Static NAT
Dynamic NAT
PAT
Publishing Servers
Access Policy
Integration with active directory
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Web Filtering

Firewalls Page
Web Filtering
SSL decryption and inspection
What is encryption and decryption!
How SSL works !
Differences between SSL and IPSec !
How SSL traffic can be decrypted !
Antivirus
IPS inspection
Application Filtering
DNS Filter
DoS protection
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
What is VPN ! and why used !
How VPN works in general !
VPN types !
Deploying Site to Site VPN !
Deploying Remote Access VPN !
Traffic Shaping
Managing Certificates
ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access)
Forticloud
Virtual Domains (VDOM)
Endpoint Control and EMS
DLP (Data Leak Prevention)
High Availability
A/P (Active/Passive)
A/A (Active/Active)
SNMP
Packet Capture
Virtual Wire pair
Redundant Internet with SD-WAN
Performance SLA
Passive Authentication
Logging and Monitoring
FortiGate in Transparent mode
FortiGate as a WAF
Fortinet demo center

Firewall.

Commonly describes systems or devices that are placed between a trusted and an untrusted network.
A firewall could control which user s traffic is allowed through the firewall.
A firewall can detect and block malicious data.

Classic Firewall Vs Next Generation Firewall

Firewalls Page
Classic Firewall Vs Next Generation Firewall

Personal Firewall vs Network Firewall

Hardware Device ports

Firewalls Page
Lab topology.

Download the VM image


Go to https://support.fortinet.com/, Register, Then Login, Support tab, Downloads, VM Images,
Select Product: Fortigate
Select Platform: VMware ESXI
Then select the version of FortiOS > New deployment > download

Basic configuration.
Edit the vm settings with cpu and G RAM.
Default username admin , no password. Type the new password
Configure port with a static ip address and allow management traffic
# config system interface
# edit port
# set mode static
# set ip (the default of port is )
# set allowaccess http https ping telnet
# end
# execute ping
Then configure the firewall with a default route to be able to reach Forti-cloud
config router static
edit
set dst /
set gateway
set device "port "
next
end
# show router static
Then open browser http://
By default the port is the internal interface and assigned the ip /
HTTPS, ping, DHCP, SSH services are running on port

Firewalls Page
HTTPS, ping, DHCP, SSH services are running on port

Firewalls Page

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