FortiGate Administrator

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.

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. 

• 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.

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

• Knowledge of network protocols

• Basic understanding of firewall concepts

This course is intended to help you prepare for the FCP - FortiGate 7.4 Administrator exam (available at an additional charge). 

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

Delegates will receive e-kit courseware approximately 1 week prior to the start of the course.