Introduction to FortiGate Part-1 Infrastructure: Fortinet Network Security Introduction (Black and White Edition)

Network Security Expert 4 Study Guide | Part-I

Fortinet Network Security Introduction

Are you looking to step into the Network Security field with the Fortigate firewall? Or are you currently required to manage a FortiGate NGFW for your organization? Then this is the right book for you! The FortiGate is an amazing device with many cybersecurity features to protect your network. If you are new to FortiGate's, then this is the perfect book for you! This book covers a general overview of working with Fortinet. Also, you gain a solid understanding of day to day administrative tasks. Next, you understand how FortiGate interacts with the various layer-2 protocols. You will also get a chance to filter network traffic and apply security policies, which is very exciting. Lastly, you learn about the session table and how Fortigate handles traffic. Below is a full list of what this book covers:

Chapter One | Introduction to FortiGate

Identify platform features of FortiGate

Describe Security Processor Unit SPU

Identify factory defaults

Understand the different operational modes

Understand FortiGate and FortiGuard Relationship

Manage administrator profiles•Manage administrative profiles

Manage network interfaces

Manage basic services

backup and restore config file

upgrade and downgrade firmware

Understand CLI structure

Understand GUI navigation

Initial Configuration

Chapter Two | Layer two technologies

Configuration of layer-2 VLANs

Describe VLANs and VLAN tagging process

Describe FortiOS Transparent Mode

Configure FortiOS Transparent Mode settings

Describe Transparent Mode Bridge Table

Describe MAC forwarding•Describe how to find MAC address on FortiOS

Describe Forwarding Domains•Describe and configure Virtual Switches

Describe Spanning Tree Protocol

Describe and Configure various NAT Mode layer-2 protocols

Describe and configure Layer-3 VLAN interface

Describe Virtual Wire Pairing

Describe and Configure VXLAN

Chapter Three | Layer Three Technologies

Configuration of Static Routes

implementation of Policy-Based Routes

Control traffic for well-known Internet Services

Interpret the FortiOS Routing Table

Understand FortiOS anti-spoofing mechanism

Implement route failover and floating route

Understand ECMP

Recognize active route vs. standby route vs. inactive routes

Use built-in sniffer and diagnose flow debug tools,•Understand Session Table Entry.

Chapter Four | Firewall Policy and NAT

Identify components in Firewall Policy

Describe how traffic matches Firewall Policy Entries

Configure Firewall Policy Logging•Describe Policy GUI list views

Describe Policy ID's vs. Policy Sequence numbers

Described where objects are referenced

Explain Name restrictions on Firewall Policies

Perform Firewall Policy re-ordering•Describe NAT and PAT

Explain different configuration modes for NAT

Configure and Describe SNAT and DNAT VIPs

Troubleshoot NAT issues