FortiGate Administrator
In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features. In interactive labs, you will explore 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.
Who Should Attend
Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration, and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations’ networks should attend this course.You should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Operator course before attending the FortiGate Administrator course.
Certification
This course is intended to help you prepare for the FCP – FortiGate 7.6 Administrator exam. This exam is part of the following certification tracks:
- Fortinet Certified Professional – Network Security
- Fortinet Certified Professional – Public Cloud Security
- Fortinet Certified Professional – Security Operations
Agenda
1. System and Network Settings
2. Firewall Policies and NAT
3. Routing
4. Firewall Authentication
5. Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
6. Certificate Operations
7. Antivirus
8. Web Filtering
9. Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
10. SSL VPN
11. IPsec VPN
12. SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
13. Security Fabric
14. High Availability
15. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings
- Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate
- Use the GUI and CLI for administration
- Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
- Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
- Analyze a FortiGate route table
- Configure static routing
- Route packets using static routes for multi-path and loadbalanced deployments
- Authenticate users using LDAP and RADIUS
- Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI
- Offer Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
- Understand encryption functions and certificates
- Inspect SSL/TLS-secured traffic to prevent encryption used to bypass security policies
- Configure security profiles to neutralize threats and misuse, including viruses, torrents, and inappropriate websites
- Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications that might use standard or non-standard protocols and ports
- Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network
- Establish an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGate devices
- Configure SD-WAN and verify traffic distribution
- Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric
- Deploy FortiGate devices as an HA cluster for fault tolerance and high performance
- Diagnose and correct common problems
FortiAnalyzer Administrator
In this course, you will learn how to deploy, configure, and secure FortiAnalyzer. You will also learn how to register and manage devices with FortiAnalyzer. Finally, you will explore the fundamentals of the logging and reporting management capabilities included on FortiAnalyzer. These skills will provide you with a solid foundation for becoming a professional FortiAnalyzer administrator.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who is responsible for the day-to-day management of FortiAnalyzer devices should attend this course. This course is intended to help you prepare for the FCP—FortiAnalyzer 7.4 Administrator certification exam. This exam is part of the Fortinet Certified Professional – Network Security certification track.
FortiAnalyzer 7.4 Administrator Course Description
Prerequisites
You must be familiar with all topics presented in the FCP – FortiGate Administrator course.
Agenda
1.Introduction and Initial Configuration
2. Administration and Management
3. RAID and HA
4. Managing Devices
5. Logs and Reports Management
Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the purpose of FortiAnalyzer
- Describe the FortiAnalyzer operating modes
- Understand logging in a Fortinet Security Fabric environment
- Describe the FortiAnalyzer Fabric
- Manage administrative domains (ADOMs)
- Configure network settings
- Configure secure administrative access
- Manage the disk quota
- Perform a system configuration backup
- Manage RAID
- Manage HA
- Register and manage devices
- Describe the log file workflow
- Perform log backups
- Understand Fabric Connectors
- Configure log redundancy and encryption
- Configure log rollover and retention policies
- Manage Reports
Additional Course Details:
Date: 09 – 13 June 2025
Price: MUR 130,000, exam voucher included (HRDC refundable, up to 70%)
Venue: TBC
F&B: Lunch and Coffee Breaks Included
