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FortiGate Essentials 6.4 Self-Paced

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01. Introduction and Initial Configuration

In this lesson, you will learn about FortiGate administration basics and the components within FortiGate that can be enabled to
extend functionality. This lesson also includes details about how and where FortiGate fits into your existing network architecture.

Duration: 44:01 minutes

Resource: Administrators section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Resource: Firmware section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

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Resource: Settings section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Resource: Interfaces section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Troubleshooting Tip: How to list or disconnect administrators connected to a FortiGate

Technical Tip: How to set the number of minutes before an idle administrator session times out

Technical Tip : Creating per-VDOM administrators

Technical Tip: Resetting a lost Admin password

Troubleshooting Tip: Network Interface Card NIC commands

02. Firewall Policies

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.

Duration: 35:21 minutes

Resource: Policies section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Resource: Objects section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Technical Tip: Use of wildcard FQDN address object in firewall policy

Technical Tip: How to allow the configuration of policies with multiple source/destination interfaces or
'any'

03. Routing
In this lesson, you will learn about the routing capabilities and features available on FortiGate.

Duration: 39:59 minutes

Troubleshooting Tip: Routing Changes and SNAT (snat-route-change)

Technical Tip: FortiGate routing table conditions

04. Firewall Authentication

In this lesson, you will learn about using authentication on the firewall policies of a FortiGate.

Duration: 37:10 minutes

Resource: User and Authentication section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Technical Tip: Configuring a disclaimer page on a FortiGate firewall policy

05. SSL-VPN

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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.

Duration: 36:47 minutes

Resource: SSL-VPN section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Technical Tip: How to perform routing between SSLVPN Clients

Technical Tip: How to access a VIP from a SSL VPN tunnel mode client

Technical Tip: Enabling SSL VPN Full Tunnel

Technical Tip: RADIUS authentication and client certificates in SSL VPN

Technical Tip: Configuring custom registry checks for SSL VPN

06. Web Filtering

In this lesson, you will learn how to configure web filtering on FortiGate to control web traffic in your network.

Duration: 34:46 minutes

Resource: Web Filter section in the Administration Guide

07. Application Control

In this lesson, you will learn 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.

Duration: 34:59 minutes

Resource: Application Control section in the FortiGate Administration Guide

Technical Note: Show Blocking Page with Application Control

Resource: Custom IPS and Application Control Signature Syntax Guide

Quiz
Once you complete all lessons, two quizzes will appear below. You are required to take only one of the quizzes to complete
the course, but may take both quizzes to further test your knowledge. You may also re-take one or more quizzes at any time.

Course Completion
Your course completion certificate will be available to download within 48-hours, once you have completed all lessons and
at least one of the two quizzes.

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