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FortiGate Security NSE-4

In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features, including security profiles. In interactive labs, you will explore firewall policies, the Fortinet Security Fabric,user authentication, 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 basic network security.

Course Key Learnings:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Deploy the appropriate operation mode for your network
•  Use the GUI and CLI for administration
• Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
• Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
•  Authenticate users using firewall policies
•  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
• Fight hacking and denial of service (DoS)
• Collect and interpret log entries
• Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric

Course Content: 

Lesson1: Introduction

• Overview
• Accessing the Fortigate
• Modes of Operation
• Administrative Access
• Networking

Lesson2: Firewall Policies

Lesson3: Firewall Authentication