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FortiGate Administrator

Description

What's it all about?
In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features. 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.

This course prepares you for the FCP FortiGate 7.4 Administrator exam. By passing this exam, you will be awarded the associated exam badge.

What you need to know?
Knowledge of network protocols.
Basic understanding of firewall concepts.

  • Skills Covered
    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
    -Analyse a FortiGate route table
    -Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multi-path and load-balanced deployments
    -Authenticate users using firewall policies
    -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 static routing
    - Configure SD-WAN underlay, overlay, and local breakout
    - 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

Short Course Delivery Locations Some short courses can provide accreditation for industry-specific registration, while others merely provide skills and knowledge in the subject area. Concession prices are available for some courses.

Location

Online - External

Date
 
Class Times
Registrations open from - 1st of December 2024

Accepting enrolments up until 30th of June 2025
Online self-paced paced study up to 6 Months

Please Note - This course commences from 20th of January 2025. You will receive further information from your lecturer after this date.
Student Visa (500)

Current VISA holders eligible

Contact
1800 882 661

Cost

$1500.00 GST inc

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