(Diagram depicting Palo Alto vs Fortinet Firewall) Organizations need to keep pace with rapid increase in technology demands such as remote working, anywhere connectivity, lower latency , increased availability along with protection of infrastructure from a never ending list of …
In our previous post, we have already discussed the IPSec VPN Configuration in Fortigate Firewall. Here in this post we will understand how to trouble shoot the FortiGate VPN tunnel IKE failures. We are using below topology to troubleshoot the …
NAT-Network Address Translation NAT is a process that enables a single device such as a firewall or router to act as an agent between the internet or public network to LAN or private segment. NAT is usually use for below …
What Are Firewall Policies? Firewall policies define which traffic matches them and what FortiGate does when traffic does match, should the traffic be allowed? Initially FortiGate basis this decision on simple criteria, such as the source of the traffic then …
FortiGate packet flow is also known as Life of a Packet. This is the process when the packet enters the Ingress interface and exits from the Egress interface. Stages of FortiGate Packet Flow FortiGate packet flow consist of 4 stages …
Factory default means resetting the device to the original default configuration and deleting all customized configuration from the firewall/device. Why do we need to reset the firewall to factory default? Device is crashed and need to remove from network Remove …
What is NAT Reflection? We use Hairpin NAT or NAT reflection when our aim is to access an internal server from an internal workstation of a client by being able to access the Public IP that would be bound to …
SD-WAN Local Breakout SD-WAN is a virtual interface which connects different link types using a group of member interfaces. Using SD-WAN simplifies configuration for administrators who can configure a single set of routes and firewall policies and deploy them to …
Configuring SD WAN Load balancing Below is the network setup on which we will configure FortiGate SD-WAN with load balancing for two different ISPs. Parameters which we have taken are LAN Port & Segment -> LAN Port 3 & 10.10.10.108 WAN …
Objectives FortiGate1 has two WAN links and FortiGate2 has single WAN link Create site-to-site route based VPN with Redundant Connection Configure Dead-Peer-Detection failover Configure Link-Health Partial Redundancy is where we don’t have primary and secondary WAN connections on both peer1 …
FortiAnalyzer: Security Management Platform FortiAnalyzer aggregates log data from one or more Fortinet devices and creates a single platform to view all the reports and events. It can fetch logs from the Fortinet devices once devices are registered to FortiAnalyzer. …
UTM-Unified Threat Management UTM (Unified Threat Management) is a feature of a firewall in which multiple security profiles combine and provide protection from threats and attacks. These features are antivirus, web filtering, IPS, anti-spam etc. UTM is the consolidated solution …
Objectives Routing in Fortinet FortiGate Configuration Steps of Static Routing Configuration Steps of Dynamic Routing (BGP) Policy Base Routing Routing Monitor GUI Troubleshooting Commands for Routing in FortiGate Routing in Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Routing means how a packet can …
FortiGate fundamentals and principles involve high security infrastructure and provide a secure set up to the client. FortiGate Firewall is the most respected and highly used security product in the market. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to achieve …
Objectives VDOM and its concept VDOM Administrators VDOM Mode Configure and Enable VDOM Mode Inter-VDOM Link Steps to Create Inter-VDOM Link Enable Firewall Policy between VDOMs Understanding FortiGate VDOM FortiGate VDOM or Virtual Domain split FortiGate device into multiple …
Single Sign On & FortiGate Single Sign On Single Sign On (SSO) is a process that allows users to automatically log into every application after being identified, regardless of platform, technology, and domain. FortiGate Single Sign On (FSSO) is a …
Objectives IPSec IKE Site to Site VPN between two FortiGate Sites Phase I and Phase II Parameters Tunnel Configuration Troubleshooting Commands IPSec VPN Configuration: Fortigate Firewall IPsec: It is a vendor neutral security protocol which is used to link …