FortiGate Administrator (Coursera)

Offered by Fortinet, Inc.,
FortiGate Administrator (Coursera)

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.

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This course is part of the Fortinet Network Security Specialization.

What you'll learn
How to use the most common FortiGate features.

Syllabus

Introduction and Initial Configuration
In this lesson, you will learn about system and network settings on FortiGate.

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.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.

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

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

SSL-VPN
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.

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

Application Control
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.

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